http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/07/26/enough-said-beasts-of-the-southern-wild-sharknado-and-extreme-weather/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/07/26/enough-said-beasts-of-the-southern-wild-sharknado-and-extreme-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-410902 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 07:17:59 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=20998#comment-410902 This post makes me long for a thoroughgoing critique of BSW — I’ve been really surprised that the positive reception has been so unanimous. Re extreme weather, you seem to suggest that that the movie’s popularity is in spite of its mystification of climate change. Do you think that the mystification is part and parcel of the romanticization of poverty, racial oppression, etc.? I’m trying to think about why these features were so appealing to a mass audience. Perhaps because they take intractable problems and frame them in an ultimately optimistic populist narrative?

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