After WW2 a mix of reactionary+realist genres rose to prominence. Wiki: “publishers diversified into other genres, such as war, Westerns, science fiction, romance, crime and horror. Many superhero titles were cancelled or converted to other genres.” So...? https://twitter.com/wr1nkl3/status/1264719277254467587?s=21 …https://twitter.com/wr1nkl3/status/1264719277254467587 …
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That said I predict Wonder Woman 2 will be a hit since it happens to also be an 80s nostalgia movie. So might the stand-alone Nick Fury. Interesting to try and predict which periods will be most popular nostalgia-wise. I think 80s because X’ers. Older = boomers = tainted.
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What do you think is gonna be the next craze? Zombie films? Utopias? Utopic zombie films?
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The threats we face no longer can be punched. Not that terorrism could ever effectively be solved with violence. But pandemics clearly can’t
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“Plastic Man.” Wow.
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What's the argument that the subject-matter popularity shifts were zeitgeist-y rather than more internal to the specific medium/genre combinations' being explored?
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Gut feel... plus in the 40s I think zeitgeist = big mainstream genres since we didn’t have huge subcultural fragmentation yet. The two were like,y kinda coextensive.
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The genre was going into decline even before that. We're running out of good material, we're getting more and more live action adaptations of comics deconstructions (the new Watchmen show, The Boys, Doom Patrol, etc). I agree that it will be a slow decline.
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During that slow decline there will be a search for the next big step. If the search doesn't yield a new best thing, movies and shows will lose a lot of cultural prominence.
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