Buckaroo Banzai
For one moment, it seemed as though the Eighties might turn out OK.
Analysis
Viewing a subject though a semiotic lens — in order to ascertain not only what it means, but how.
Dynasty Reloaded
The unspoken expectation that the son is to be the father’s perfecting mirror.
Anti-Diet
"Be bad. Snack well."
Sixties Backlash
Parody is an art form for "children who have had imposed upon them a meaningless iconography."
Barbarella
In its silly way, this is a movie about female sexual power.
Meet the Semionauts
"Between the experiential cunning of the animal and the more self-disciplined and attentive cunning of the man."
Personal Product
Gum as an everyday carry — like car keys, or condoms.
Fifties Backlash
"Disney sold him into slavery, and he’s nothing. He's nothing."
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
A non-compact topological group of bare-breasted women in G-strings.
Thick Description (Abduction)
How do we identify codes, and in doing so begin to construct a meaning matrix?
People Food
Pet food presented in people-food contexts.
Disney Co. Mascot
"He’s so much of an institution that we’re limited in what we can do with him."
The African Queen
How to survive not war, but peace, with one’s humanity intact?
Thick Description (Deduction)
How do we identify paradigms and thematic complexes?