Utilitarian Review 6/20/15

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Chris Gavaler with a proposal for Joss Whedon’s next project.

Chris Gavaler on Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and superheroes.

Robert Stanley Martin chronicles on sale dates for comics in late 1942 (the first Carl Barks duck tale, and others.)

Our Joss Whedon roundtable continues!

Em Liu on Age of Ultron and the gender binary.

Anne Moore on how Whedon is no longer your best friend.

Philippe Leblanc on Whedon vs. the studio industrial complex.

Lisa Levy on Buffy and making you own family.

Jade Degrio and Desirae Embree on choice and consent in Dollhouse.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Vice I wrote about Orphan Black as soap opera.

At Playboy I wrote about Andrea Dworkin, men’s rights advocate.

At the New Republic I wrote about Goodfellas’ banal take on masculinity.

At Quartz I wrote about

—why making Magneto black is a bad idea.

Jurassic Park and the genetic abomination of working women.

not trusting teachers to do their jobs.

At Splice Today I wrote about Sense8 and utopia via television.
 

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