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An Inconvenient Boof: Deliverance's Troubled Ass Relief Program

By Anton Steinpilz ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s installment of “bubble visions” discusses John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972), a film adapted from James Dickey’s novel of the same title. Deliverance, it seems, has indelibly embedded itself in popular consciousness, despite its being nearly 40 years old. The banjo-totin’ cretin with fingers of fury, Ned Beatty’s harrowing porcine approximations, vengeful crackers stalking the woods [...]

Nothin' from Nothin' Leaves Nothin': Amoral Hazard in Less Than Zero

By Anton Steinpilz ⋅ April 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The release of Gregor Jordan’s cinematic adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Informers signals the latest example of what we at Generation Bubble like to call “Bubble Visions” — artistic engagements with the 1980s and beyond, years of bubbles puffed and popped from which we haven’t looked back. One early entry in this category is [...]

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