Category: Media Criticism
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Reviewing the Facts
“Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.” Agatha Christie – Five Little Pigs As nebulous as my thesis is at the moment, I have some idea of the different aspects of detective fiction I want to focus on. The main suspect in terms of primary texts…
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Neo-Holmesian Fiction
Murder and cigarettes. That about summed him up Anthony Horowitz – The Twist of a Knife There is plenty to be said about the usage of the character of Sherlock Holmes in contemporary fiction, decades after the final “official” story that Conan Doyle wrote. In my research on the Sherlock Holmes character I have encountered…
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Modern Mysteries of Murder
This Is A Twisted Web And We Are Not Finished Untangling It, Not Yet Benoit Blanc Keeping up with at least 800 words worth of blog posts a month is an almost daunting task when you feel there isn’t much to write about that interests you. Thoughts on pop culture, both musically and otherwise, are…
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Poetry in Motion: Rammstein’s Visual Lyricism
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen / Und die laufen vom Gesicht / Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser / So die Tränen sieht man nicht (And the shark has tears / And they run down its face / But the shark lives in water / So we don’t see the tears) Rammstein As an…
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The Curtains Are Blue
I hate metaphors. That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick! No froo-froo symbolism, just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal. Ron Swanson Spending a lot of my time online has resulted in my assumption that most of the internet is made up of teenagers trying to get back at…