Disclaimer: Sara Bizarro is a series editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of the American Philosophical Association or the Blog of the APA. The movie Slacker (1990) is Richard Linklater’s first larger-scale production. (His first […] The post Slackers Against Narrativity first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
The now classic movie-riffing series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), and its spinoffs such as Rifftrax, can tell us something about how to deal with existential absurdity. Although MST3K more directly targets the “aesthetic absurdity” of flawed filmmaking, the strategies used for coping with bad movies can also be applied to the absurdities of life.…| Blog of the APA