SCREENSHOTS (5-24)
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May 25, 2024
SCREENSHOTS is a monthly series of posts via which HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn reviews his most recent screenshots — before deleting them from the over-full Dropbox folder to which they’d been uploaded. Also see the PHOTO DUMP series.
In April, I wrapped up a semiotic audit of “British-ness” in scripted TV shows; as a control, this month I’ve also taken a look at several American scripted shows.
My semio colleague Ramons Lyons and I are analyzing Westerns, this month, on behalf of a videogame company that makes epic action/adventure games. I happened to watch the blaxploitation Western Joshua on Mother’s Day; just like Die Hard is a Christmas movie, I propose that Joshua may be the ultimate Mother’s Day movie.
Shown here: Detail from the cover of James White’s 1992 sf novel The Genocidal Healer. About which Mandy Keifetz will write for HILOBROW’s forthcoming (3Q2024) series VURT YOUR ENTHUSIASM.
Still working on the RADIUM AGE ART series. Shown here, a detail from Luigi Russolo’s “Dynamism of a Car” (1913).
I continue to research contemporary reviews of Radium Age proto-sf novels — for use as blurbs on the back covers of the books, once reissued by the MIT Press…
UVE (Unintentional Visual Echo) spotted on HILOBROW’s homepage, May 5.
Screenshot from Will Amato‘s endlessly entertaining Instagram feed. I was drawn to this one because there are “baldies” in the sf I’m writing.
Detail of an image from a forthcoming (July) installment in the NOT TODAY, EBAY series.
An amusing thing that surfaced recently, via my “Radium Age” Google Alert…
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