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Dan Hassler-Forest

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Dan Hassler-Forest is assistant professor of media and cultural studies at Utrecht University. He publishes widely on media convergence, genre cinema, critical theory, and zombies. He loves playing the ukulele and someday hopes to master the banjo.

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Capitalist Superheroes: Cap...

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Dan Dan said: " Solid collection – a little heavy on the psychoanalysis at times, and kind of repetitive toward the end. But a recommended set of takes on one of the greatest television productions ever made. "

 
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Critical Essays on Twin Peaks by Antonio Sanna
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A terrific textbook — very eager to start using this for my Introduction to Media Studies course next year.
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A beautifully written and warmly empathetic examination of ADD that was very helpful to me after just recently having been diagnosed.
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Another pointless collection of well-meaning but shapeless, poorly edited, and exhaustingly obvious takes on Twin Peaks. Absolutely typical for mercenary academic publishers like McFarland.
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“Bruce Wayne’s childhood experience of losing his parents during a random back-alley mugging remains the primary origin story for the Batman character, but other than irrationally (or, more accurately: insanely) motivating his desire to fight crime, the trauma seems to have had little discernable effect on his character.”
Dan Hassler-Forest, Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age

“Significantly, Superman’s first scene shows Jor-El rendering judgment, his deciding vote imposing the “Law of the Father ” on the criminal General Zod and his two followers, whose removal from Krypton’s symbolic order figuratively represents the castration associated with patriarchal punishment.”
Dan Hassler-Forest, Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age

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“To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You’re everywhere you look, you’re the standard against which everyone else is measured. You’re like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a “woman doctor” or they will say they went to see “the doctor.” People will tell you they have a “gay colleague” or they’ll tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a “Black friend,” but when that same person simply mentions a “friend,” everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn’t have the word “woman” or “gay” or “minority” in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses “literature,” “history” or “political science.”

This invisibility is political.”
Michael S. Kimmel, Privilege: A Reader

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
Irwin Shaw

“The notion that capital – as an infinitely ramified system of exploitation, an abstract, intangible but overpowering logic, a process without a subject or a subject without a face – poses formidable obstacles to its representation has often been taken in a sublime or tragic key. *Vast*, beyond the powers of individual or collective cognition; *invisible*, in its fundamental forms; *overwhelming*, in its capacity to reshape space, time and matter – but unlike the sublime, or indeed the tragic, in its propensity to thwart any reaffirmation of the uniqueness and interiority of a subject. Not a shipwreck *with* a spectator, but a shipwreck *of* the spectator.”
Alberto Toscano

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