Lots of people have commented on the disaster that was the Hugo Awards 2020 last night. What became starkly clear to me was that there is an enormous chasm between what two competing visions of the future of SFF: one is inclusive, radical, anti-racist, anti-fascist,…
Category: critical theory
I’m giving a talk on May 1 at UC Irvine and I want discuss the links between immersive theater and larp (live action role-playing). I’ve done some reading in larp — particularly in Nordic larp, as it’s highly theorized — but I realized my background…
Watching this now and finding it really interesting. I’m working on a few stories set in a secondary world where matriarchy is the norm, and I’ve been thinking a lot about what female power looks like — or more specifically, what power divorced entirely from…
The costume design of Stranger Things struck me right away. This isn’t the usual Hollywood version of a prettied-up 80’s. No, this is the 1984 I remember, the one still stained by the lingering brown-orange hues of the 70’s. The tacky 80’s. The awful wide-wale corduroys,…
Last night I re-watched the 1982 TV movie adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Anthony Andrews and an absolutely magnificent Jane Seymour. I’m pretty sure we had that movie on VHS when I was growing up, because I know every scene by heart and could…