It is known — Game of Thrones, the Orient, and Conventional Wisdom
Back in my very first post about GoT, I said that I would get to the orientalism thing another day. Well, today’s a day, right?
Clichemageddon 2012: Genre-xtravaganza
It’s back. And it’s more generic than ever.
The Musical Talmud – “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen
Catch the first Video Musical Talmud, on the song you were probably singing in your head before you read this.
Open Thread for May 25, 2012 – Featured Comments and Forum Posts
This Week in Overthinking It: News, featured comments, and forum posts from around the site and world.
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The Subversively PC Drawn Together
How the filthiest cartoon of the 00s was on your side all along!
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OTI Movie Night: BATTLESHIP!
Join OTI writers and your fellow Overthinkers across the nation for live, in-person meetups to watch and discuss the seminal new film, Battleship.
Kabletown Vertical Integration Update
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Kabletown PowerPoint reveals their strategy for taking on the IKEA threat.
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Jus In Bello and the Fury Doctrine
How do SHIELD and the Avengers go to war?
Red on the Ledger: The Avengers and Sexual Violence
How Whedon/Johanssens’s Black Widow advances heroic symbolism and political discourse around survivors of sexual violence.
That 70s Show and the Imaginary Fez
How I wish, how I wish you were here / we’re just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl / year after year.