Is Jim Halpert looking at me
The Jim Halpert Gaze, The Office , and the Fascist Look
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10195041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cooper Casale (Department of English The University of Colorado Boulder Boulder Colorado USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 164-174 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Popular Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3840 • E-ISSN: 1540-5931 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jpcu.13327 |
| OpenAlex | W4394724485 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
It's entirely possible to watch all nine seasons of The Office without asking the obvious: Is Jim Halpert Looking at Me? The six‐hundred‐fifty times Jim looks at us and the six‐hundred‐fifty sins to which his famous glare responds result in a training that confers viewers with the ability to mime the mime; to recover Jim's stupid, vampiric face by matching it's subtle permutations, to dismiss the naïve exertions of others as stupid and embarrassing; to find success, comfort, and safety in the image of the pitiless scientist, the capitalist boss, and the fascist father
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |