Who’s on the Line?...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Currently featured, Film & popular culture on 08 12th, 2007 | No Comments
From a longer Washingtonpost.com article about TV and movie representation of surveillance:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who back in June reportedly went to great lengths to defend Jack Bauer. …At a legal conference in Ottawa, responding to another participant who warned against asking,...
OpinionJournal - Jack Bauer Insurance...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Uncategorized on 09 13th, 2006 | No Comments
Can CIA agents be sued for protecting America with too much vigor?:
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
What would Jack Bauer do? If he worked at the CIA in real life today, the anti-terror hero of Fox’s “24” would apparently be buying insurance in case the ACLU or John Kerry decided...
Billy Jack Is Ready to Fight the Good Fi...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Film & popular culture on 06 21st, 2005 | 5 Comments
In a fascinating interview with the New York Times Tom Laughlin and Delores Taylor, the husband and wife team that brought us Billy Jack - the classic outsider hero of the 60s/70s - says they are going to make a new film. They are looking at combining the film with political activism around the Iraq...
Dark Knight Returns...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Apocalypse myth on 06 16th, 2005 | No Comments
Batman begins today and all the reviews have been glowing. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times hones in on the characterisation in a way that mirrors much of the discussion on the human/superhero duality that was explored at last weekend’s conference:
What Mr. Nolan gets, and gets better than...
The Governator...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Uncategorized on 06 13th, 2005 | No Comments
One of the fascinating sessions in the Superheroes conference was the keynote by Louise Krasniewicz about the Arnie factor (check out her Arnie hypertext project). Titled “True Lies Superhero: Do we really want our icons to come to life?” it rehearsed many of the themes from her great book...