So, okay, I'll go first! I admit that I found this request intimidating at first because I don't think I'm plugged into The Discourse enough to know what constitutes a "take" or to have a good sense for what is or isn't being engaged with. One thought I had was that my response could be <A HREF="https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2022/07/21/figuring-out-men/">Kristin Thompson's 2022 blog post about <EM>Men</em></a> because it definitely did inspire me to rethink what she identifies as the "prestige horror" genre and I think she still doesn't get enough recognition relative to the admittedly immense contributions of her late husband (RIP) to film studies, but for all I know this was the talk of Twitter for awhile. Instead, what about <A HREF="https://zachcampbell.substack.com/p/034-only-connect">your own 2023 post on "the film commentary of the poet Christopher Mulrooney"</a>? I've been intentionally trying to lean into my "weird"-er tendencies which I agree were characteristic of an earlier version of the internet ever since I read it.
Thanks for those suggestions, Andy! I would have to see <i>Men</i> first before I try to engage with that Thompson post (I have admittedly not been keeping up with Alex Garland's work). But that's useful ... "prestige horror" is one of the contemporary film trends I do actually have some working knowledge of, at least! As far as Mulrooney, yes, that's definitely a path worth traveling some more. Both for his style, his gnomic associative observations ... and for some of the actual claims he makes, such as the assertions he would make that Film A was obviously a rehash of Film B, even if nobody else seems to have made that connection.
So, okay, I'll go first! I admit that I found this request intimidating at first because I don't think I'm plugged into The Discourse enough to know what constitutes a "take" or to have a good sense for what is or isn't being engaged with. One thought I had was that my response could be <A HREF="https://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2022/07/21/figuring-out-men/">Kristin Thompson's 2022 blog post about <EM>Men</em></a> because it definitely did inspire me to rethink what she identifies as the "prestige horror" genre and I think she still doesn't get enough recognition relative to the admittedly immense contributions of her late husband (RIP) to film studies, but for all I know this was the talk of Twitter for awhile. Instead, what about <A HREF="https://zachcampbell.substack.com/p/034-only-connect">your own 2023 post on "the film commentary of the poet Christopher Mulrooney"</a>? I've been intentionally trying to lean into my "weird"-er tendencies which I agree were characteristic of an earlier version of the internet ever since I read it.
Thanks for those suggestions, Andy! I would have to see <i>Men</i> first before I try to engage with that Thompson post (I have admittedly not been keeping up with Alex Garland's work). But that's useful ... "prestige horror" is one of the contemporary film trends I do actually have some working knowledge of, at least! As far as Mulrooney, yes, that's definitely a path worth traveling some more. Both for his style, his gnomic associative observations ... and for some of the actual claims he makes, such as the assertions he would make that Film A was obviously a rehash of Film B, even if nobody else seems to have made that connection.