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Date Posted: 15:39:32 07/24/02 Wed
Author: Trish
Subject: magazine odds and ends

Last weeks Entertainment Weekly (Austin Powers cover) had an article on the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" graphic novel. It mentions the movie being filmed just briefly. The June issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology, of all things, reports a study done at Iowa State in which participants where shown TV shows with violence or sex content according to the ratings system. It concludes that people don't remember commercials in shows with violence or sex. LFN was one of the shows used in the study as violent content.(Along with WWF, Millenium and others)They don't say which episode was used. There is more of a description of the participants than the shows. A Baptist minister and his wife walked out when they were shown "The Man Show". Another person was thrown off the study when it was discovered he couldn't read. Another guy started acting violent before they showed him anything. Makes you wonder about the rest of the participants. Anyway it shouldn't take a university study to figure out why you don't pay attention to the commercials when you watch LFN.

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[> Re: One more. There is a lengthy article in the Dec 2001 journal "Camera Obscura" form Indiana University Press called "Pygmalion tale retold: remaking La Femme Nikita. " It discusses the Besson film, Point of no return, and the series. It also mentions two Hong Kong remakes from 1991 1992 Black Cat and Black Cat II. (r) -- Trish, 10:05:03 07/25/02 Thu

The article is by Laura Grindstaff a sociologist from the University of California Davis. It is a scholarly article (it has 90 footnotes!). I had never heard of the Hong Kong movies. She sees the theme of Nikita as a robot (gelmanized)coming from the Hong Kong movies (in those she has a chip in her brain that goes wacky in the second movie) and also, at the beginning of the first movie she is working in a diner (like later in 'Hard Landing") Another point she made in passing was that USA Network wasn't the place you would expect to find such a classy series. The article also talks about the aesthetics of remakes in general, the Pygmalian theme of course, and gender/power issues. Not what we're used to reading in TV Guide.


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[> [> Re: Not what we're used to reading in TV Guide -- thanks for the tipTrish! it's the sort of article that interests me [in addition to TV Guide, lol] so I will be ordering it online -- trish lyn, 13:27:32 07/26/02 Fri


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