Monthly Archives: June 2017

Utilitarian Review 7/1/17

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On Angela Nagle, the Handmaid’s Tale and how the religious right is in fact part of capitalism.

The difference between Handmaid’s Tale book and tv show. (TV show has more empowerment.)
 
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At Playboy I wrote about Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled as neo-Confederate feminism.

At the Verge I wrote about

—how Preacher the television show is different from the comic (Jesse doesn’t walk with God.

—Blood Drive and our retro-future disgusting Reagan apocalypse.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—electronica releases by Juana Molina, Jlin, and K. Reinshagen.

—First Blood as reverse colonial fever dream.

Utilitarian Review 6/24/17

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I was on vacation for part of this week, so things have been a little slow.

Next week I have a couple of book promotion bargain things happening, so follow my twitter or facebook or Patreon for notification of those.
 
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I did a series of interviews with BLM activists back in 2015. They never got published, so I finally posted them.
 
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I’m editing a series of romance criticism columns at Public Books. Ria Cheyne wrote a great piece on disability in Fay Robinson’s A Man Like Mac.

At Playboy I wrote about the first season of Preacher as a revisionist revisionist Western.

At Random Nerds I wrote about the Defenders and bad crossovers.

At Splice Today I wrote about the trope of the Nazi supervillain.

At Bandcamp I reviewed Svartsyn’s awesome black metal album “In Death.”

At the Reader I wrote about a great new Memphis soul band, Southern Avenue.

I had a little chat with Gerry Canavan about whether Octavia Butler’s Oankali are evil.

Utilitarian Review 6/17/17

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My new ebook on women film directors is out! Buy one today!
 
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Rewriting the Wonder Woman movie.

Why the Great British Bake Off is better than Legion.
 
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At the Forward I wrote a long piece about Scarlett Johansson and Jewish assimilation (or the lack therof.)

At Bandcamp I wrote about the Mexican chiptune scene.

At the Verge I wrote about racial erasure in the Handmaid’s Tale, book and show.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—how Adam West is the sexiest Batamn.

—Defiance and how fascism shapes Jewish identity.

—why The Shack is better than American Gods.

Utilitarian Review 6/10/17

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My new book on women in film, The Consequences of Feminism, is out on Monday! Preorder, call your friends, celebrate!

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On Underground Railroad and taking the progress out of slavery narratives.

Wonder Woman fan fiction featuring: Beaver Men!
 
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At the Forward I noted that if you’re upset that people notice Wonder Woman is white, you may well be white.

At Quartz I noted that the new Wonder Woman movie is oddly uninterested in sisterhood.

At Trackrecord I wrote about all the records from 1967 that were better than Sgt. Pepper’s.

At Playboy I interviewed Greg Garrett about the meaning of zombies.

At Splice Today I wrote about Look Who’s Back and the shallow evil of embracing Hitler.

Utilitarian Review 6/3/17

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The original Mummy and sexy exotic Boris Karloff.

On iZombie as a metaphor for acting.

 
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At Playboy I wrote about how cannabis helps veterans and how the federal government doesn’t want them to have it.

In my first piece for the Verge, I wrote about the one serious omission from the Wonder Woman film: space kangaroos.

At the Forward I explained that yes, Gal Gadot is white.

At Quartz I wrote about Bresha Meadows and a criminal justice system that gouges the poor.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Robert Christgau and white critics in blackface.

—nostalgia and great new releases by Jason Eady, Coup Savage, and the Family Band.

—Haneke’s White Ribbon and somebody else’s collective guilt.

—trying to get my vehicle emissions tested and getting the government you pay for.