here's some interesting cultural thoughts re: media for @kontextmaschine Post: "The other day watching Indians Jones and the...
here’s some interesting cultural thoughts re: media for @kontextmaschine
Post: “The other day watching Indians Jones and the Last Crusade with the fam, it came to me that what made American movies and art of late 80s and earlier so different from what we have now wasn’t that it was original, it was that it was syncretic. It picked and chose and reassembled. It was attached to and part of a broad commercial and popular culture–both the other blockbusters of the time, as well as the pulp fiction & B movies & canned history it drew from–that jostled and competed with each other without sitting neatly in one ‘universe’ or 'property’.”
Reply: “The 90s were MORE syncretic than the 80s, I think. Tarantino and his followers. But the culture produces television that is reasonably original no problem. The issue is the foreign markets. They are huge now, and they don’t have all our cultural touchstones to syncretize from.”
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