Ryan Lizardi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2074417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Lizardi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lizardi |
| SIGNATURE | LIZARDI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Polytechnic Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Existential Science Fiction
This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media, including film, television, and video games, and their influence on society’s conceptions of memory, identity, and humanity. Most poignantly, Ryan Lizardi argues, are the ways in which a recent cluster of science fiction media, including Gravity (2013), Interstellar (2014), Legion (2017-2019), Westworld (2016-present), Soma (2015), and Death Standing (2019), among others, present …
Chapter 5
Mourning and Melancholia
In 2016, the canceled CW television series Gilmore Girls was revived on Netflix as four 90-minute “mini-movies” called Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Factors contributing to the original series ending, including creator conflicts about its final year, have led to continued series devotion and, consequently, Netflix’s revival that aimed to court the show’s built-in audience as well as a new generation of viewers. To revive a show that caters t…
The Poetics of Slumberland
In this book, Scott Bukatman tackles the fascinating subject of embodied utopias of disorder, mostly within the comic art medium, but also in film and art. His primary focus is on the works of Wins
Mediated Nostalgia
Considering the current rash of film remakes, vintage video game downloads, and box sets of bygone television shows, media today is obsessed with nostalgia. Instead of presenting a past that functions as an adaptive mirror with which we can compare our contemporary situation, the past is instead presented as an individualized version that transfixes us as uncritical citizens of our own culture. Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contempora…
Re-Imagining” Hegemony and Misogyny in the Contemporary Slasher Remake
Recently, cinema has been inundated with 1970s/1980s “slasher” horror canon “re-imaginings,” such as Halloween (2007). Comparing remakes to originals, the remake texts allegorically address contemporary concerns and power structures. Cultural implications of slasher remakes include hyperemphasis of the originals' hegemony and misogyny. Ironically, the remakes contain optimistic endings, pointing to hegemonic, misogynistic futures
Mourning and Melancholia
In 2016, the canceled CW television series Gilmore Girls was revived on Netflix as four 90-minute “mini-movies” called Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Factors contributing to the original series ending, including creator conflicts about its final year, have led to continued series devotion and, consequently, Netflix’s revival that aimed to court the show’s built-in audience as well as a new generation of viewers. To revive a show that caters t…
Mediated Nostalgia
Considering the current rash of film remakes, vintage video game downloads, and box sets of bygone television shows, media today is obsessed with nostalgia. Instead of presenting a past that functions as an adaptive mirror with which we can compare our contemporary situation, the past is instead presented as an individualized version that transfixes us as uncritical citizens of our own culture. Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contempora…
Re-Imagining” Hegemony and Misogyny in the Contemporary Slasher Remake
Recently, cinema has been inundated with 1970s/1980s “slasher” horror canon “re-imaginings,” such as Halloween (2007). Comparing remakes to originals, the remake texts allegorically address contemporary concerns and power structures. Cultural implications of slasher remakes include hyperemphasis of the originals' hegemony and misogyny. Ironically, the remakes contain optimistic endings, pointing to hegemonic, misogynistic futures
Mediated Nostalgia
Considering the current rash of film remakes, vintage video game downloads, and box sets of bygone television shows, media today is obsessed with nostalgia. Instead of presenting a past that functions as an adaptive mirror with which we can compare our contemporary situation, the past is instead presented as an individualized version that transfixes us as uncritical citizens of our own culture. Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contempora…
The Poetics of Slumberland
In this book, Scott Bukatman tackles the fascinating subject of embodied utopias of disorder, mostly within the comic art medium, but also in film and art. His primary focus is on the works of Wins
Mourning and Melancholia
In 2016, the canceled CW television series Gilmore Girls was revived on Netflix as four 90-minute “mini-movies” called Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Factors contributing to the original series ending, including creator conflicts about its final year, have led to continued series devotion and, consequently, Netflix’s revival that aimed to court the show’s built-in audience as well as a new generation of viewers. To revive a show that caters t…
Existential Science Fiction
This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media, including film, television, and video games, and their influence on society’s conceptions of memory, identity, and humanity. Most poignantly, Ryan Lizardi argues, are the ways in which a recent cluster of science fiction media, including Gravity (2013), Interstellar (2014), Legion (2017-2019), Westworld (2016-present), Soma (2015), and Death Standing (2019), among others, present …
Chapter 5
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work) · Advertising (1 work)