Posts tagged Yojimbo
Treating the Nostalgiac: An Overview
Treating the Nostalgiac: An Overview

Let us look at nostalgia itself, because nostalgia is what we’re taking aim at here. The pain of homecoming. Let us take a more medical or therapeutic approach. If we view being a Nostalgiac as a bad thing, what is the treatment for it? What is the plan of action for rehabilitation?

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Commentary, Written by: CameronCameron SummersNostalgia, Jobsian Minimalism, Used Future, I Robot, The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner, Sixteen Candles, Metachrony, Sukiyaki Western Django, Andy Goldsworthy, Disco Elysium, James Joyce, Ulysses, Planescape: Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera, The Hidden Fortress, Star WArs, Seven Samurai, 13 Assassins, Red Harvest, Blood Simple, A Fistful of Dollars, YojimboComment
Unpacking the Trash Can of Genre: Practical Literary Theory
Unpacking the Trash Can of Genre: Practical Literary Theory

When you select a genre and decide your going to produce a book, comic, film, or similar within it, you’re essentially taking a whole set of unexamined assumptions and saying that you’re going to abide by them to the exclusion of everything else. This is a mistake.

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Analysis, Literary Theory, Written by: CameronCameron Summersgenre, hard boiled fiction, OuLiPo, Red Harvest, Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Last Man Standing, Disco Elysium, Sherlock holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Ghost in the Shell, Detective fiction, Cyberpunk, Mad MaxComment