SCREENSHOTS (5-24)
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May 25, 2024
SCREENSHOTS is a monthly series of posts via which HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn reviews his most recent screenshots — before deleting them from the over-full Dropbox folder to which they’d been uploaded. Also see the PHOTO DUMP series.
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In April, I wrapped up a semiotic audit of “British-ness” in scripted TV shows; as a control, this month I’ve also taken a look at several American scripted shows.
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My semio colleague Ramons Lyons and I are analyzing Westerns, this month, on behalf of a videogame company that makes epic action/adventure games. I happened to watch the blaxploitation Western Joshua on Mother’s Day; just like Die Hard is a Christmas movie, I propose that Joshua may be the ultimate Mother’s Day movie.
Shown here: Detail from the cover of James White’s 1992 sf novel The Genocidal Healer. About which Mandy Keifetz will write for HILOBROW’s forthcoming (3Q2024) series VURT YOUR ENTHUSIASM.
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Still working on the RADIUM AGE ART series. Shown here, a detail from Luigi Russolo’s “Dynamism of a Car” (1913).
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I continue to research contemporary reviews of Radium Age proto-sf novels — for use as blurbs on the back covers of the books, once reissued by the MIT Press…
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UVE (Unintentional Visual Echo) spotted on HILOBROW’s homepage, May 5.
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Screenshot from Will Amato‘s endlessly entertaining Instagram feed. I was drawn to this one because there are “baldies” in the sf I’m writing.
Detail of an image from a forthcoming (July) installment in the NOT TODAY, EBAY series.
An amusing thing that surfaced recently, via my “Radium Age” Google Alert…
ALSO SEE: John Hilgart (ed.)’s HERMENAUTIC TAROT series | Josh Glenn’s VIRUS VIGILANTE series | & old-school HILOBROW series like BICYCLE KICK | CECI EST UNE PIPE | CHESS MATCH | EGGHEAD | FILE X | HILOBROW COVERS | LATF HIPSTER | HI-LO AMERICANA | PHRENOLOGY | PLUPERFECT PDA | SKRULLICISM.