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“Beaten By the Wind: The Forgotten Mystery Movie at the Heart of Bob Seger’s ‘American Storm’”

In a guest essay, Ty Matejowsky examines the once ubiquitous and now mostly forgotten movie tie-in music video format through the example of one for a movie that never existed.

13 July 2021 in Film, Guest Post, Music.

Despite the Genocide: Deconstructed Masculinity and Thanos Fandom

Critiquing Thanos and the limits of deconstruction.

2 April 2019 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics.

Unfreezing the Past: The MCU’s Captain America and Traumatic Reenactment

Re-considering the arc of Captain America through the lens of trauma in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

26 June 2018 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics.

Colonial Hottie: Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman and Brand Israel

A crucial interrogation of how Gal Gadot’s Israeli identity and IDF experience are used to sell her authenticity in the role of Wonder Woman.

5 June 2018 in Authenticity, DC Comics, Film, Guest Post, Politics.

“Guns in the Valley” – a Review of Logan

Logan, the best there is at what he does, and what he does is care.

4 April 2017 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Review.

Robocop: Representation By Erasure & The White-Washing of Detroit.

For a movie set in Detroit, it seems awful white.

13 January 2015 in Film, Race, Urban Space.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Liberal Fantasy – A Review

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is part of the ideological state apparatus

22 April 2014 in Film, Politics, Review.

“Movies, Museums and the Hall of Fame” – Beat Street & the Past Future of Hip Hop

Hip Hop got up big time, and I love that, but its focus on cultural production left its political potential untapped.

25 February 2014 in Authenticity, Film, Music.

“Once Upon a Time Not Long Ago”

Hip Hop: Unbound from the Underground

8 April 2013 in Film, Music, Sound Studies.

Interpreting Tommy

It’s Oedipal.

24 July 2012 in Albums, Film, Music.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Revising Historical Horror into Bubblegum Horror

Evil by degrees.

28 May 2012 in Film, Race.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens (that isn’t rehearsed)

The Talking Heads simultaneously demystifying and mystifying.

29 April 2012 in Film, Music, Performance.
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