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Scatology 101
I started this project on the premise of making a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy blog for an American Studies class. I know it doesn't really make sense but it did in my proposal.
When I started talking to fellow students (most of whom are 15 years younger), I discovered that most of them have not read the book, and have seen the movie. Most of them thought the movie sucked. Well, It got me pondering over the state of culture, literature and film. What I decided is; if American culture (responsible for Hollywood) was more open to reading, more receptive to reading things from other cultures, and more responsive to international film, not only would less crap come out of Hollywood, but less good stuff would be turned into cultural diarrhea. And thus I present to you the answer without knowing the question..
When I started talking to fellow students (most of whom are 15 years younger), I discovered that most of them have not read the book, and have seen the movie. Most of them thought the movie sucked. Well, It got me pondering over the state of culture, literature and film. What I decided is; if American culture (responsible for Hollywood) was more open to reading, more receptive to reading things from other cultures, and more responsive to international film, not only would less crap come out of Hollywood, but less good stuff would be turned into cultural diarrhea. And thus I present to you the answer without knowing the question..
Rationale
This blog was created for an American Popular and Mass Cultures class taught by Dr. Bruce Simon at SUNY Fredonia. In the class we addressed the cultures through studying novels, film, video games, science fiction, fantasy fiction and TV. The topic of books' and novels' relationships to each other filtered through American Culture applies to two of the mediums we studied and addresses them in regards to each other as well as American Culture. Feel free to contribute whether you are interested in the class part or not. Dr. Simon AKA The Constructivist as well as TJ Sharky from my contributer's list have some interesting blogs you may want to check out as well. I am also open to suggestions on how to improve my blog. Cheers!
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