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Pop Culture Jam: The Mainstream Subversion of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel

By Andy Prisbylla

The subversive paradox created when Max Headroom turned pitchman for corporate cola is just one of many in the career of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel…

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Occult & Paranormal

Authentic Music from Another Planet: The Howard Menger Story

By Stephen Canner

From the opening years of the 1950s, various terrestrials came forward claiming to be in contact with the occupants of flying saucers. Their stories were often quite similar…

Music & Sound

No Bondage, No More: ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’

By Eve Tushnet

I first heard about the X-Ray Spex from a Riot Grrrl flier handed out at punk concerts in the mid-’90s. Their one album, Germfree Adolescents, was on a list of woman-led punk music…

Books & Literature

Shopping Mauled: Revisiting ‘The Mall: An Attempted Escape from Everyday Life’

By Ty Matejowsky

By now, dead shopping malls are as much a part of the popular imagination as they are blighted fixtures of suburban landscapes: sprawling vestiges of a bygone era when droves of consumers flocked to self-contained hubs of retail commerce…

Film & TV

Doom, Détente, Dr Pepper: ‘Godzilla 1984’ and ‘Godzilla 1985’

By Alex Adams

Also known as The Return of Godzilla and simply Godzilla, Godzilla 1984 is what we would now call a reboot: part remake, part sequel, a fresh start that retrieved some things from Godzilla’s past while discarding others…

The Lonely, Horny Prophecies of Lynne Tillman’s ‘Weird Fucks’

By Sam Moore

What’s prescient about Weird Fucks is how everything both is and isn’t a matter of life and death; violence is an undercurrent, and every breakup may or may not be the end of the world…

November 18, 2021 in Books & Literature.

The Violence of Reason: ‘Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985’

By Eve Tushnet

Dangerous Visions is the third in a series, edited by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, exploring the radical elements in pulp and genre publishing of the Cold War era. (We Are the Mutants has reviewed the first volume, on postwar youth culture, and the second, on revolution and the 1960s counterculture.)

November 8, 2021 in Books & Literature.

The Golden Hydra: King Ghidorah, Astro-Colonizers, and Cold War Empire

By Alex Adams

In Toho’s 1965 tokusatsu spectacular Invasion of the Astro Monster, humanity makes contact with ruthless hive-mind aliens from Planet X, a new stellar body discovered on the far side of Jupiter…

October 6, 2021 in Film & TV.

Mind Eats Matter: Ed Hunt’s ‘The Brain’

By Mike Apichella

Outside of David Cronenberg’s work and stray oddities like 1980’s The Changeling, the Canadian horror and sci-fi movies of the 1970s and ‘80s often get overshadowed by their counterparts from the US and Europe…

September 23, 2021 in Film & TV.

Eternal Artifice: ‘Cuadecuc, Vampir,’ ‘Martin,’ and the Deconstructed Vampire

By Sam Moore

The cinematic vampire is a fragile thing, not only for its many vulnerabilities—sunlight, crosses, garlic—but for the ways in which it can be rendered hollow, a construction…

September 1, 2021 in Film & TV.

Rise of the Smog God: Ecological Apocalypse in ‘Godzilla vs. Hedorah’

By Alex Adams

Many of the fifteen Shōwa films are rich with social commentary and formal and stylistic innovations. Perhaps the boldest of them all—and perhaps the most unfairly maligned—is 1971’s psychedelic eco-horror Godzilla vs. Hedorah…

June 15, 2021 in Film & TV.

Fractal Accidents: Attachment and Agency in Chris Shaw’s ‘Split’

By Jonathan Lukens

Watching Split left me with the distinct feeling that I just missed five minutes of it without leaving my seat…

June 3, 2021 in Film & TV.

Marrying the Monster: Apocalyptic and Utopian Impulses in 1950s Sci-Fi Cinema

By Pepe Tesoro

If you are even mildly interested in science fiction criticism, chances are that you have bumped into Susan Sontag’s 1965 essay “The Imagination of Disaster.” Written at the tail end of the long 1950s golden era of sci-fi film, the text is a bold and keen examination of a genre…

May 26, 2021 in Film & TV.

Between Mushroom Cloud and Monastery: Douglas Coupland’s ‘Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture’

By Eve Tushnet

I came to Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, thirty years after its 1991 publication date, expecting sharp sociocultural observation and maybe some economic critique…

May 12, 2021 in Books & Literature.

Fire Islanders: The Myth-Making Geography of ‘Boys in the Sand’

By Sam Moore

One of the first, most potent images in Wakefield Poole’s groundbreaking 1971 adult film Boys in the Sand is that of Casey Donovan emerging from the waves before making his way onto the beach. The image feels like a queering of a common cultural touchstone…

April 28, 2021 in Film & TV.

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