The Asphalt Jungle
The least understood aspect of the human psyche is the ego.
Josh Glenn
Josh Glenn is a pioneering, Boston-based consulting semiotician. He is cofounder of Semiovox, editor of the hermeneutic blog HiLoBrow, founding editor of MIT Press's Radium Age Science Fiction series, and co-author or co-editor of The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the family activities guide Unbored, among other books. In the ’90s, Josh published the zine/journal Hermenaut; in the 2000s, he was a Boston Globe staffer and columnist.
And We Lived Beneath the Waves
Psychedelic revelations about the artificial nature of reality.
Gone With the Wind
Bodies will be stacked together on battlefields like so much cordwood.
Code-X (Intro)
What are the implicit assumptions (or “mythologies”) we’ve absorbed?
Tequila Release
Shedding inhibitions, going a little wild, having good stories to tell.
Beach Party
The moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Pure Hitchcock: tragic and comic at precisely the same instant.
Les Valseuses
Half-wild denizens of “la zone” on the outskirts of a large town.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Sexy, thrilling, and — thanks to the sandwiches — very British indeed.
Blade Runner
Viewers never question Deckard’s humanity… except, perhaps, during this scene.
Apocalypse Now
In the existential jungle, empathy makes a man fitter for survival. But at what price?
The Bad News Bears
In life, as in baseball, things can always get better. Or worse.
