The questions posed by Masha Tupitsyn’s work to date—Love Sounds completes a trilogy that began with Laconia and Love Dog, a pair of books drawn from her writing on Twitter and Tumblr—have generally been variations on “how do we talk about love?” So: How do we talk with love? How do we talk through love? How do we talk around love? How do we talk away from love? How do we talk in love? With Love Sounds, she’s taken these questions, and many more, and used them to grope, like a good archivist, through the thicket of love in English-language cinema. The slightly more than twenty-four hours she has emerged with are offered generously for interpretation, a process helped along by the eight categories, rendered as white text on a black ground, that both structure the work and provide its only images. In the time since...
- 12/14/2015
- by Phil Coldiron
- MUBI
The questions posed by Masha Tupitsyn’s work to date—Love Sounds completes a trilogy that began with Laconia and Love Dog, a pair of books drawn from her writing on Twitter and Tumblr—have generally been variations on “how do we talk about love?” So: How do we talk with love? How do we talk through love? How do we talk around love? How do we talk away from love? How do we talk in love? With Love Sounds, she’s taken these questions, and many more, and used them to grope, like a good archivist, through the thicket of love in English-language cinema. The slightly more than twenty-four hours she has emerged with are offered generously for interpretation, a process helped along by the eight categories, rendered as white text on a black ground, that both structure the work and provide its only images. In the time since...
- 12/14/2015
- by Phil Coldiron
- MUBI
An interesting sub-genre called the Weird West has been around longer than most people think, and certainly Cowboys & Aliens won’t be the last, but it might be one of the more successful film mash-ups in the rarely talked about genre. First of all, what’s the Weird West? It’s a term used to describe a western that uses sci-fi, horror, or fantasy elements in its narrative. And although it was popularized by authors, especially Joe R. Lansdale, it has had a long history in film dating back all the way to the early 1930s.
Because of the iconic themes and ideals with in the western movie, which often mirrors the fantastical elements in a sci-fi tale, such as (but not limited to) unknown wilderness and the survival of pioneers, and social decay and order, it would not be very long before the two genres merged, given us a...
Because of the iconic themes and ideals with in the western movie, which often mirrors the fantastical elements in a sci-fi tale, such as (but not limited to) unknown wilderness and the survival of pioneers, and social decay and order, it would not be very long before the two genres merged, given us a...
- 8/1/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
When you are presented with a movie named "Cowboys & Aliens" you know exactly what you are going to get. Instead of Indians being the bad guys, the extraterrestrials are the ones terrorizing the wild, wild West.
It's a clever concept but when you are mixing genres you are entering a very treacherous terrain. In "Cowboys & Aliens," the western genre elopes with sci-fi and the filmmakers tried their best to find the perfect balance. Predictably, the western elements overshadow the sci-fi aspects.
Combining science fiction with western in popular culture has been done before. Arguably, Gene Autry's 1935 serial, "The Phantom Empire," might have been the first one to merge both genres. Autry, in his first starring role as a singing cowboy, discovered a gleaming underground empire of Murania full of robots, ray-guns, and otherworldly creatures.
Daniel Craig does not sing in "Cowboys & Aliens" but he's a cowboy alright. He's Jake Lonergan,...
It's a clever concept but when you are mixing genres you are entering a very treacherous terrain. In "Cowboys & Aliens," the western genre elopes with sci-fi and the filmmakers tried their best to find the perfect balance. Predictably, the western elements overshadow the sci-fi aspects.
Combining science fiction with western in popular culture has been done before. Arguably, Gene Autry's 1935 serial, "The Phantom Empire," might have been the first one to merge both genres. Autry, in his first starring role as a singing cowboy, discovered a gleaming underground empire of Murania full of robots, ray-guns, and otherworldly creatures.
Daniel Craig does not sing in "Cowboys & Aliens" but he's a cowboy alright. He's Jake Lonergan,...
- 7/27/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Encyclopedia Of Weird Westerns by Paul Green (McFarland, tpb, 265 pp, $39.95) If any genre seems a mismatch with the supernatural or science fiction, it has to be the Western. Sure, there was the Gene Autry serial The Phantom Empire, where that cowboy hero journeyed beneath the Earth to the lost city of Murania, and the strange double-bill of Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’S Daughter and Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula. But Green, a former Marvel Comics artist, has come up with The Encyclopedia Of Weird Westerns, an international compendium of books, movies, comics, TV shows and games that deals with the extensive and bizarre cross-pollination. This unique volume covers ground that has generally eluded researchers.
Green’s introduction is a brief history of the various art forms covered in the pages that follow. He stretches it a bit, though, when he starts talking about the Sumerians and Homer—who predated the West itself.
Green’s introduction is a brief history of the various art forms covered in the pages that follow. He stretches it a bit, though, when he starts talking about the Sumerians and Homer—who predated the West itself.
- 11/6/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Dan Scapperotti)
- Starlog
The Encyclopedia Of Weird Westerns by Paul Green (McFarland, tpb, 265 pp, $39.95) If any genre seems a mismatch with the supernatural or science fiction, it has to be the Western. Sure, there was the Gene Autry serial The Phantom Empire, where that cowboy hero journeyed beneath the Earth to the lost city of Murania, and the strange double-bill of Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’S Daughter and Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula. But Green, a former Marvel Comics artist, has come up with The Encyclopedia Of Weird Westerns, an international compendium of books, movies, comics, TV shows and games that deals with the extensive and bizarre cross-pollination. This unique volume covers ground that has generally eluded researchers.
Green’s introduction is a brief history of the various art forms covered in the pages that follow. He stretches it a bit, though, when he starts talking about the Sumerians and Homer—who predated the West itself.
Green’s introduction is a brief history of the various art forms covered in the pages that follow. He stretches it a bit, though, when he starts talking about the Sumerians and Homer—who predated the West itself.
- 11/6/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Dan Scapperotti)
- Starlog
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