This week’s blog of note (and I totally should do this more often!) – Dave Edmunds on 007

Dave Edmunds does an excellent job in linking the 007 mystique to the myth of the Frontier. It doesn’t matter that James Bond is neither a “cowboy” nor and “American.” He still exemplifies the qualities of the frontiersman. Here is an excerpt:

This reflects the style of hero chronicled in classic American Western film and explained through the frontier myth. In many 007 films, Bond is found combating and defeating a foreign force. Whether it’s an assassin spy or a leader set on world domination, Bond villains are exploits of another “alien” culture and presented in roles that combat Bond’s character in more ways than one. Bond represents the traditional American “force” onto the rest of the world, similar to how early Western heroes would fight their enemies. Throughout his film series, Bond is shown inflicting terror and “justice” upon the rest of the world and the foreign villains he is faced with, symbolically representing American expansion of the world (Edmunds, Sept 28, 2009).

You can read the complete post here.

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This week’s blog of note: Nathan Connin on Pandora

Slowly, I’m making my way through the blogs. Here is an interesting take on the high culture vs low culture polemic, by Nathan Connin.

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Today’s blog of note, by Alyssa Carter

Check it out. Alyssa Carter has an excellent post on flash mobs. If you’re still wondering how to do the blog posts, I suggest you check it out. Alyssa brings in several examples (I’ll stop calling them artifacts!),  does a great job linking them to Malcolm Gladwell’s article, and includes a complete list of reference at the end.

Kudos, and keep it up.

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The evolution of dance

Erika Gruner has some very good observations on The Evolution of Dance, perhaps one of the most famous internet memes.

Here’s the original video, in case you don’t remember it.

Kudos Erika!

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