myth

Fantasy and Science Fiction Media FILM 4280/6280, Spring 2013 Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00-2:15 PM, 331 General Classroom Building Screenings Tuesdays, 11:00 AM-12:50 PM, 406 Arts & Humanities Ted Friedman 25 Park Place #1017 tedf@gsu.edu http://twitter.com/tedfriedman http://tedfriedman.com Course Description How do we dream our visions of the future? How do we explore our fantasies of the […]

Here’s a short “position paper” I wrote for a panel on comics at the Flow media studies conference in Austin: For a Jungian Turn in Comics Studies The rise of the new field of comics studies offers the opportunity to reconsider theoretical choices made by earlier forms of media studies. When, in an earlier generation, […]

Senior Seminar: Convergence CultureFilm 4910, Fall 2012Section 4910-005: Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00-12:15, Sparks 305Section 4910-010: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:30-3:45, Sparks 329 Ted FriedmanOffice: 738 One Park Place SouthEmail: ted@tedfriedman.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/tedfriedmanWebsite: http://tedfriedman.com/teaching Course DescriptionMedia today are converging, as the boundaries that divide movies, TV, games, phones and the web blur. ... read more »

Chris Christie wants a beer with Bruce (http://ht.ly/cOk0q). I want a PBR with Colt Ford & Eric Church. http://youtu.be/cSlArizRI-E Filed under: Cultural Studies, Music, Myth

Film 4910, Summer 2012Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:55-1:25, Classroom South 308 Ted FriedmanOffice: 738 One Park Place SouthEmail: ted@tedfriedman.com     Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedfriedmanWebsite: http://tedfriedman.com/teaching Course DescriptionMedia today are converging, as the boundaries that divide movies, TV, games, phones and the web blur. ... read more »

COMM 6160/8690, Spring 2012
Thursdays 4:30-7:00 PM, Sparks 321

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1. Portlandia
2. Breaking Bad
3. Louie
4. Community
5. Parks and Recreation
6. Justified
7. Childrens Hospital
8. The Amazing Race
9. The Great Food Truck Race
10. Curb Your Enthusiasm
11. Hung
12.Top Chef
13. Bored to Death
14. Game of Thrones
15. Sunday Night Football
16. The Layover/No Reservations
17. The Daily Show ... read more »

As longtime readers of my blog know, I rate every movie I see according to the DTMTBD scale: how it compares to Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, which I established twenty years ago as the baseline for all films. Better than Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter‘s Dead means the movie was a rewarding experience; worse means you wasted your time. About as good as means it all depends on the popcorn. ... read more »

Albums

1. Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2. Drake, Take Care
3. Tune-Yards, Whokill
4. Laura Marling, A Creature I Don’t Know
5. Tycho, Dive
6. Washed Out, Within and Without
7. Radiohead, King of Limbs
8. M83, Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
9. Raphael Saadiq, Stone Rollin’
10. Feist, Metals

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Here’s a talk about Star Wars and and myth that I gave last month  at the Academy of Religious Studies conference in San Francisco: ... read more »