Barthe stipulates that the appeal in wrestling is based completely in spectacle. Fans do not attend the matches for a realistic performance or demonstration of talent. Exaggeration is the expectation, not competition. If they were to watch a starkly uneven match between two wrestlers of…
Author: rpump
Action, ninjas, and the fate of the world are all what many guys would consider to be cool, but Naruto Shippuden is not. Being an anime television show, Naruto carries the stigma of being both a nerdy and somewhat childish. It may be a cartoon,…
“I sat, eased a few M&M’s into my mouth, and flipped to page 132, which turned out to be ‘Good in Bed,’ Moxie’s regular male-written feature designed to help the average reader understand what her boyfriend was up to… or wasn’t up to, as the…
“The lowing of a cow in the quiet meadows, the splash of a trout in the fish-pond, the last notes of a tired bird, the creaking of waggon-wheels upon the distant road, every now and then breaking the evening silence, only made the stillness of…
Margaret Oliphant makes it clear that she finds the genre of sensation fiction to be dangerous. Oliphant illustrates the trend that sensation novelists often tend to elicit their thrills by depicting likable evil. Her concern is that the tools used in sensation fiction, in trying…
In a 2009 article “What’s Happening in YA Literature? Trends in Books for Adolescents,” Melanie Koss and William Teale identified current trends within the Young Adult genre of literature. One of the more significant points that they identified pertains to a shift in subject matter…
We are all familiar with the classic situation where one of our favorite books is turned into a movie, and then the movie turns out to be extremely different from the book. In an inherently melancholy young adult novel such as The Fault in our Stars it…
Busby Berkeley is a classic example of the what could be considered the “camp” genre. In a scene that revolves around one man’s total infatuation with a lady during a semi-eventful trip through the city, almost everything is dramatized to the extreme. You see this…