Soaring out of the jungles on the southern border of Mexico, the Zapatista Air Force took flight. Almost exactly six years after the Zapatista Liberation Army (ELZN) first occupied the Chiapas in 1994 to oppose neoliberal and repressive government policies, they launched hundreds of planes over Mexican soldiers in the city of Amador Hernandez (Lane, 2003, p. 129). Throughout … [Read more...] about Cyber Sit-Ins: Grassroots to Gigabytes
Pornographic Pilgrimage
Though many regard California’s San Fernando Valley as the birthplace of American pornography, one must actually search further back in the history books to the landing of the Mayflower in Plymouth, Massachusetts to discover its true origins. Established on the foundation of Puritan and Protestant beliefs, America has been grappling with its complex psychological makeup derived … [Read more...] about Pornographic Pilgrimage
(Blog Post) Trailer Trash: Next Stop, the Twilight Zone
By A.J. Serrano The Twilight Zone was one hell of a television series. Stephen King once referred to the show as “damn near immortal” and it’s hard to disagree with his lofty praise. The series set a new standard for film and television writing, so much so that nearly every piece of entertainment that was produced after its 1959 debut is in some way indebted to Rod Serling’s … [Read more...] about (Blog Post) Trailer Trash: Next Stop, the Twilight Zone
(Blog Post) Trailer Trash: In the Hall of the Mountain King
By A.J. Serrano Music may be universal but it also Paramount, Fox and Warner Bros. Or, at least "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is all these things. That is the only logical explanation for the presence of Edvard Grieg's bombastic orchestration in nearly every movie preview cut in the last twenty years. You know the tune. The mischievous plucks of the cello. The escalating … [Read more...] about (Blog Post) Trailer Trash: In the Hall of the Mountain King
(Blog Post) Trailer Trash: Big Bertha
By A.J. Serrano I'm terrified of David Lynch films for the same reasons that my elementary school self was consistently reduced to a trembling mess of nerves in front of Big Bertha. Lynch is the wacky-haired visionary behind such movies as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet. Big Bertha is the subject of a children's arcade game commonly found next to the skee ball … [Read more...] about (Blog Post) Trailer Trash: Big Bertha