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Issue #434: Curry Barker's Obsession is a Re-Staging of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
I started re-reading The Prince of Tennis (1999). It’s so awesome. I forgot that Ryoma Echizen and Baki Hanma start out with the same genre-subverting character motivation.
Speaking of these uncredited, maybe unintentional, similarities am...
Issue #433: Yoshiyuki Tomino and Earl Lovelace Can't Live With 'Em and Can't Live Without 'Em
I love an issue that calls for me to bury the audience in footnotes. They snowball out of control. Once I start leaving footnotes, I start aspiring to the full-page Fanon footnotes about Lacan in Black Skin, White Masks (1952). My copious f...
Issue #432: Kiyoshi Kurosawa vs. Spike Lee for the Paradox Newsletter Lifetime Achievement Award
There are a lot of songs about nukes. More than I thought. This week’s Music League theme: “songs with lyrics about nuclear apocalypse or anxiety about nuclear weapons.” I was critical of this theme, thinking it might be generically homogen...
Issue #431: The Original 13 Assassins is an Indisputable Samurai Classic
Music League’s theme this week was a song you like by an artist you hate.
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I already discussed my difficulty making a selection here. Ultimately I chose a song by Drake that is 60% inside joke with a friend of mine. I...
Issue #430: Faith and Its Absence in the Contemporary Superhero Gods
Losing well is not easy. Developing your response to losing, if you are a competitor, is vital. But there are wider applications here for those who lead a blissfully agreeable, non-confrontational life. Losing in a competitive sense has a v...
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I have a PhD in literature and have been writing a weekly newsletter since 2018. I write most often about film and television, video games, subcultural niches, cultural studies, and critical theory. Subscribe today: https://www.paradoxnewsletter.com/
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