http://sevenred.net/2009/08/22/figuring-history-in-postindustrialism/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sevenred.net/2009/08/22/figuring-history-in-postindustrialism/comment-page-1/#comment-421 topspun Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:26:00 +0000 http://sevenred.net/2009/08/22/figuring-history-in-postindustrialism/#comment-421 If I bother to see it, it better be good, because I'm already majorly turned off by the super-cheap move of using the Nazis as villains. I mean, low hanging fruit, anyone? We're gonna make a movie where we kill a bunch of Nazis and piss off Hitler! Wow, I mean edgy, no? I'd hope for serious irony, at the very least. If I bother to see it, it better be good, because I’m already majorly turned off by the super-cheap move of using the Nazis as villains. I mean, low hanging fruit, anyone? We’re gonna make a movie where we kill a bunch of Nazis and piss off Hitler! Wow, I mean edgy, no? I’d hope for serious irony, at the very least.

]]> http://sevenred.net/2009/08/22/figuring-history-in-postindustrialism/comment-page-1/#comment-415 steventhomas Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:01:25 +0000 http://sevenred.net/2009/08/22/figuring-history-in-postindustrialism/#comment-415 I'm curious now what you'd think of Quentin Terentino's new film, Inglorious Bastards in light of this metonymy/synecdoche analysis of the Holocaust. I'd think we'd have to consider the other two master tropes that Hayden White uses to analyse modes of history writing: metaphor and irony. I’m curious now what you’d think of Quentin Terentino’s new film, Inglorious Bastards in light of this metonymy/synecdoche analysis of the Holocaust. I’d think we’d have to consider the other two master tropes that Hayden White uses to analyse modes of history writing: metaphor and irony.

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