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In the peanut gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000
essays on film, fandom, technology, and the culture of riffing
by Robert G. Weiner
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"Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured a human host and a pair of robotic puppets who provided commentary on some of the worst films ever made. This is the first full-length scholarly analysis of Mystery Science Theater 3000 which blossomed from humble beginnings on Minnesota public-access television into a cultural phenomenon on major cable networks"--Provided by publisher.
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In the peanut gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: essays on film, fandom, technology, and the culture of riffing
2011, McFarland
in English
0786445327 9780786445325
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments --
Foreword: Riffing and you (and riffing ) -- by Kevin Murphy
Foreword -- by Robert Moses Peaslee
Introduction -- by Robert G. Weiner and Shelley E. Barba -- PART ONE.
DIRECTORS --
There's been an accident at the studio: How we made hobgoblins! -- Rick Sloane
"Remember: Only you can prevent Roger Corman": The king of the Bs under siege -- Cynthia J. Miller -- PART TWO.
SPECIFIC FILMS --
Communists and cosmonauts in Mystery science theater 3000: De-Camping East Germany's First spaceship on Venus/Silent star -- Sebastian Heiduschke
The semiotics of spaceflight on the satellite of love -- Matthew H. Hersch
Resurrecting the dead: Revival of forgotten films through appropriation -- Cheryl Hicks
PART THREE.
FANDOM --
Becoming "The right people": fan-generated knowledge building -- Kris M. Markman and John Overholt
Converging fan cultures and the labors of fandom -- Megan Condis
"Consume excrement and thus expire": conflict resolution, "fantagonism," and alt.tv.mst3k -- Jeremy Groskopf
Cinemasochism: bad movies and the people who love them -- David Ray Carter -- PART FOUR.
MEDIA TEXTS, AUDIENCES, AND THE CULTURE OF RIFFING --
Double poaching and the subversive operations of riffing: "You kids with your hoola hoops and your Rosenbergs and your Communist agendas" -- Ora Mcwilliams and Joshua Richardson
Frame work, resistance and co-optation: how Mystery Science Theater 3000 positions us both in and against hegemonic culture -- Michael Dean
"Not too different from you or me": the paradox of fiction, joint attention, and longevity -- Michael David Elam
Mystery Science Theater 3000: a media-centered exploration -- Zachary Grimm
Authorship and text remediation in Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- Kaleb Havens -- PART FIVE.
MENTAL HYGIENE: THE MST3K SHORTS --
"People were Whiter back then": film placement and in-theater commentary as sociopolitical dialogue -- Erin Giannini
Endearing educational shorts -- Amanda R. Keeler
Writing history with riffs: the historiography of the "shorts" -- Miranda Tedholm -- PART SIX.
SATIRE AND GENDER --
Robot roll call: Gypsy! (Hi girls!) -- Michele Brittany
What's the difference? Satire and separation in that "Little Puppet Show" -- Alana Hatley -- PART SEVEN.
TECHNOLOGY AND EPISODE COLLECTING --
Design and speculative technology of MST3K: Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu at MIT -- Jason Begy and Generoso Fierro
"Cambot eye": the synthesis of man, machine and spectatorship -- Danielle Reay
MSTies and mastery: circulating the tapes in a digital age -- Joseph S. Walker -- PART EIGHT.
HISTORY AND PRE-HISTORY --
"Hamlet will return in Thunderball": historical precedents of riffing -- Mark Mcdermott
From techno-isolation to social reconciliation -- E. Mitchell
Fishing with cheese on a Blood Hook: MST3K's unlikely origins on a lake in the woods of Wisconsin -- Robert G. Weiner
Afterword -- Mary Jo Pehl.
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