Total Recall and Audience Surrogates - Difficulty Concentrating
Hollywood has Electric Dreams! In this video, I analyze an aspect of the Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster, Total Recall. This is the first episode of a new series on Dubious Consumption called Difficulty Concentrating that examines pop culture, media and art.
Sources:
Movies: Total Recall, The Bourne Identity, Donnie Darko, Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix
Television: News Channel 5 Koco, Blockbuster Video Ad, Secret Agent Man Titles, Mr Olympia 1975, WWE Titantron
Articles
https://www.wired.com/2003/12/philip/
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/total-recall-1990
http://www.newsweek.com/total-free-fall-195938
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