Fenzel, Lee, Perich, and Wrather tackle heists, hustlers, and the hermeneutic circle.
Episode 187: The Sam Awards
Literary Theory
Episode 17: The Cremaster Field (or, Chuck Dies)
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink the season finale of Gossip Girl and the Joss Whedon/Neil Patrick Harris episode of Glee.
Overthinking Lost: Season 6 Episode 1
Episode 75: No Cake But What We Make
The Overthinkers share what Terminator means to them.
Tell Don’t Show: Glee and the Epic Voice
What Glee has in common with the Illiad. You know, *other* than the sublimated adult-teenager homoerotic relationship.
I Am So Done Serving Coffee: Identity as Performance in Gossip Girl
Perspectives on Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” [Think Tank]
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Fictional Fictions
Never again will the real have the chance to produce itself — such is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection, that no longer even gives the event of death a…
Fixing Pan’s Labyrinth
Pan’s Labyrinth, the gorgeous film by Guillermo del Toro, was on TV again the other day, and just seeing certain scenes brought all the feelings I had upon my first viewing flooding back. I should say at the outset that…
The Philosophy of Batman: Literary Theory Edition
Or: Holy plaisire du texte, Barthes-Man! The plot of The Dark Knight, like that of Batman Begins, is honestly kind of shapeless and waffle-y. And yet, as Memento proves, Nolan is capable of writing narratives that are drum-taught and mongoose-agile.…