Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Pop Culture
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Read the following essay the other day on the train which seemed to link in with a number of other ongoing threads of discussion out there. In his essay ‘Web of Babylon’* on the nature of fan fiction Kurt Lancaster ponders the nature of power relationships within publishing and the generations of new micro communities.…
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Tim and I were talking yesterday about my comments to his post SansBlogue : Hell wants him. Heaven won’t take him. Earth needs him and I’ve decided to turn them into a post over here in response to that. Bear in mind my comments are more about the genre of comic books than the movie…
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Suspension of Disbelief : A Fact-Check for the Four-Color World is a group blog reality-checking comic stories. “Incredible stories in a realistic world” might be their slogan. Thus, in the spirit of educating the public and the publishers, we here have created this group blog. We’ll complain when creators get the facts wrong, and congratulate…
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Came across this the other day. A Star Wars fan film made, of all places, just down the road (New Lynn is a location). Described as, a parody of fandom set in the heady days of 1999, a couple of weeks before the release of ‘The Phantom Menace’. The world is excited, people are queuing…
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Came across this today while tracking down information about the Star Wars fan file “Fanboys”. New Zealand Short Films | Watch Movies Online
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Not sure if B5 will make it on the big screen. Part of the appeal was 5 years of interconnected stories that built upon each other to produce a “novel”. Exploring a variety of interesting ideas. In a movie there’s no time for that so I expect it will be more of an “action-flick”. Still…
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From Comic Book Movies by David Hughes, Why this sudden fascination with comic book heroes? Perhaps because so many directors and studio executives grew up (as I did) on Marvel and DC comics – an entire generation learned about morality, heroism and the difficult choices faced by heroes not from the classics, but from Spider-Man…
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Wish I’d been there. Sounds fascinating. Science & Theology News – News: Sci-fi conference removes fiction from fact.
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Being something of a comic book junkie (see: Greenflame: Holy Warrior Nuns, Batman!) I was interested to read this yesterday over at Jolly Blogger: Superman, Jesus Christ and Jim Caviezel. Great posting with lots of links to interesting articles and sites linking in religious themes with comic book characters (mostly Superman).
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My fieldtrips for my research often tend to be to the movies. Movies such as the Matrix trilogy, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Star Trek: Nemesis and today I, Robot serve as a source for thinking about human nature in relation to technology. In her book on technoculture Lelia Green comments on the increasing number of contemporary…