DMC Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 I like how he knew the year it was published. Must be a big fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Sf/F print and screen critic, Abigail Nussban, does a WandaVision wrap-around. https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/its-wandavision Lot's of interesting links, such as this one: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-wandavision-cul-de-sac/ Quote ....The MCU has retconned an explanation for why Wanda would want this white vision of domestic utopia, making her the same kind of sitcom nostalgist as Tobey Maguire’s character in Pleasantville. The old story of the Stark missile that killed her parents now contains the Dick Van Dyke Show playing in the background, and its parables of American postwar opulence, consensus, and stability have been made to directly speak to her Sokovian background. Of course, that background — once a story of Romani twins orphaned by the Holocaust — has been re-rendered in typically pejorative “Third World” caricatures, allowing our Eastern European protagonist to long for the freedom of the free world in more safely clichéd cold war terms (even before Tony Stark drops a missile on her house). Whatever Magneto’s daughter Wanda once wanted, in the comics, her desire and her meaning has been flattened into a cold war vision of iron curtain longing: the America of blue jeans and pop culture, as seen on TV.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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