Dan Hassler-Forest
@danhf.bsky.social
Author, speaker, all-purpose movie guy, media studies prof @ Utrecht University. Forthcoming: books on the Fast & Furious franchise and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Pre-order: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Pre-order: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
If only the James Bond franchise hadn't been such a stickler for exact continuity from one movie to the next!
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
If only the James Bond franchise hadn't been such a stickler for exact continuity from one movie to the next!
Tragically, the only way forward for the franchise is to resurrect 007 as Zombie James Bond in future installments.
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Tragically, the only way forward for the franchise is to resurrect 007 as Zombie James Bond in future installments.
They recorded this one on the same day they cut “Norwegian Wood” – a similarly psychotic ditty. 🔥😬
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
They recorded this one on the same day they cut “Norwegian Wood” – a similarly psychotic ditty. 🔥😬
I use this video all the time in classes I teach on serialized narrative and the paradox of deferred closure. 🧐
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I use this video all the time in classes I teach on serialized narrative and the paradox of deferred closure. 🧐
I give them hand-picked passages from The Prison Notebooks along with a more general introduction from John Storey's textbook.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I give them hand-picked passages from The Prison Notebooks along with a more general introduction from John Storey's textbook.
I try to sell them on critical theory as a skill that helps you ruin other people's media enjoyment and so far it looks like they are very much into it, lol.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I try to sell them on critical theory as a skill that helps you ruin other people's media enjoyment and so far it looks like they are very much into it, lol.
Indeed! I couldn't resist devoting an entire chapter to it in my book on sci-fi, fantasy and capitalism.
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Indeed! I couldn't resist devoting an entire chapter to it in my book on sci-fi, fantasy and capitalism.
Post prompted by my ongoing rewatch of the #Spartacus TV show, which remains the single most underrated relic of premium cable's brief "anything goes" era.
a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in a bathtub .
Alt: A bloodied Gannicus releases a triumphant cackle on the preposterously underrated TV show Spartacus.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Post prompted by my ongoing rewatch of the #Spartacus TV show, which remains the single most underrated relic of premium cable's brief "anything goes" era.