This is a paper that analyzes Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer and how it relates to a new paradigm of ... more This is a paper that analyzes Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer and how it relates to a new paradigm of trans-national blockbusters. I analyze the film using a cultural materialist lens with respect to the filmmaker's previous films and their outward (international) trajectory. This methodology highlights a larger trend that we are now seeing with large-scale 'global' blockbusters.
Breaking Bad‘s final three episodes, “Ozymandias”, “Granite State” (5.15), and “Felina” (5.16) su... more Breaking Bad‘s final three episodes, “Ozymandias”, “Granite State” (5.15), and “Felina” (5.16) successfully critique a perverse escalating narrative strategy, perfected by HBO’s The Sopranos and the similarly complex serialized television narratives, wherein viewers find vicarious pleasure in the ultimate success of the straight middle-class white male psychopath.
This is a paper that analyzes Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer and how it relates to a new paradigm of ... more This is a paper that analyzes Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer and how it relates to a new paradigm of trans-national blockbusters. I analyze the film using a cultural materialist lens with respect to the filmmaker's previous films and their outward (international) trajectory. This methodology highlights a larger trend that we are now seeing with large-scale 'global' blockbusters.
Breaking Bad‘s final three episodes, “Ozymandias”, “Granite State” (5.15), and “Felina” (5.16) su... more Breaking Bad‘s final three episodes, “Ozymandias”, “Granite State” (5.15), and “Felina” (5.16) successfully critique a perverse escalating narrative strategy, perfected by HBO’s The Sopranos and the similarly complex serialized television narratives, wherein viewers find vicarious pleasure in the ultimate success of the straight middle-class white male psychopath.
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