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Genre/Form: | Review reviews (documents) Reviews Comptes rendus |
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Document Type: | Book |
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Robert G Weiner; Shelley E Barba |
ISBN: | 9780786445325 0786445327 |
OCLC Number: | 692291476 |
Description: | xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Riffing and you (and riffing) / by Kevin Murphy -- Foreword / by Robert Moses Peaslee -- Introduction / by Robert G. Weiner and Shelley E. Barba -- PART ONE. DIRECTORS -- There's been an accident at the studio: How we made hobgoblins! / Rick Sloane -- "Remember: Only you can prevent Roger Corman": The king of the Bs under siege / Cynthia J. Miller -- PART TWO. SPECIFIC FILMS -- Communists and cosmonauts in Mystery science theater 3000: De-Camping East Germany's First spaceship on Venus/Silent star / Sebastian Heiduschke -- The semiotics of spaceflight on the satellite of love / Matthew H. Hersch -- Resurrecting the dead: Revival of forgotten films through appropriation / Cheryl Hicks. PART THREE. FANDOM -- Becoming "The right people": fan-generated knowledge building / Kris M. Markman and John Overholt -- Converging fan cultures and the labors of fandom / Megan Condis -- "Consume excrement and thus expire": conflict resolution, "fantagonism," and alt.tv.mst3k / Jeremy Groskopf -- Cinemasochism: bad movies and the people who love them / David Ray Carter -- PART FOUR. MEDIA TEXTS, AUDIENCES, AND THE CULTURE OF RIFFING -- Double poaching and the subversive operations of riffing: "You kids with your hoola hoops and your Rosenbergs and your Communist agendas" / Ora Mcwilliams and Joshua Richardson -- Frame work, resistance and co-optation: how Mystery Science Theater 3000 positions us both in and against hegemonic culture / Michael Dean -- "Not too different from you or me": the paradox of fiction, joint attention, and longevity / Michael David Elam. Mystery Science Theater 3000: a media-centered exploration / Zachary Grimm -- Authorship and text remediation in Mystery Science Theater 3000 / Kaleb Havens -- PART FIVE. MENTAL HYGIENE: THE MST3K SHORTS -- "People were Whiter back then": film placement and in-theater commentary as sociopolitical dialogue / Erin Giannini -- Endearing educational shorts / Amanda R. Keeler -- Writing history with riffs: the historiography of the "shorts" / Miranda Tedholm -- PART SIX. SATIRE AND GENDER -- Robot roll call: Gypsy! (Hi girls!) / Michele Brittany -- What's the difference? Satire and separation in that "Little Puppet Show" / Alana Hatley -- PART SEVEN. TECHNOLOGY AND EPISODE COLLECTING -- Design and speculative technology of MST3K: Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu at MIT / Jason Begy and Generoso Fierro. "Cambot eye": the synthesis of man, machine and spectatorship / Danielle Reay -- MSTies and mastery: circulating the tapes in a digital age / Joseph S. Walker -- PART EIGHT. HISTORY AND PRE-HISTORY -- "Hamlet will return in Thunderball": historical precedents of riffing / Mark Mcdermott -- From techno-isolation to social reconciliation / E. Mitchell -- Fishing with cheese on a Blood Hook: MST3K's unlikely origins on a lake in the woods of Wisconsin / Robert G. Weiner -- Afterword / Mary Jo Pehl. |
Responsibility: | edited by Robert G. Weiner and Shelley E. Barba ; forewords by Kevin Murphy and Robert Moses Peaslee ; afterword by Mary Jo Pehl. |
Abstract:
The award-winning television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988-1999) has been described as ""the smartest, funniest show in America,"" and forever changed the way we watch movies. These essays represent the first full-length scholarly analysis of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which blossomed from humble beginnings into a cultural phenomenon on two major cable networks.
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