* *semiotics* and Film...

Coffee hasn't kicked in yet...

We've had "Traumazone" (about the late Soviet era and Yeltsin era Russia) and "Shifty", so I guess that the next logical stop is an America-centric take on this narrationless documentary series thing? Or maybe he'll try something else. Whatever it is, I'll probably still end up watching it.

For a day-by-day summary, have you seen this? theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/

This is one of my favourites. I have used this for teaching 'high concept' 1980s Hollywood action films before. Some students have got into the spirit of it as being larger than life and 80s hardbody macho B.S. turned up to 11, while others have struggled to get into it... but it is a lot of fun.

Any thoughts, literature pals?

Of course, this is a bit speculative. The stock and standing of authors tends to rise and fall over time. Works get re-evaluated as humanity progresses (or gets waylaid), and new approaches to thinking about literature emerge. Tastes change, imbalances are corrected, obscurities rediscovered.

This follow from Norton has got me has got me thinking about that kind of question in a slightly different way. Which texts from the post-WWII era, or, say, since the 1980s, are strong candidates for future Norton Critical Editions? (I.E., be thought of as candidates for scholarly editions.)