Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D.
@brittrclark
Ph.D in American Studies. Lecturer in English. Lover of pop culture. My book Media Representations of Retail Work in America:
Hey school, you maybe want to stop sending me emails every few weeks telling me my reappointment review materials are due soon when you actually mean due in 2+ months?
Post two movies from one director to show their range: Billy Wilder
Several of the "parade float ghosts" are inspired by real (creepy) parade balloons from Macy's parades in the early 20th century. #Ghostbusters #AnswertheCall
Also, was Bill Murray dressed by Paul Feig himself for this role? Very dapper. 😂 #Ghostbusters #AnswertheCall
That real estate agent is Katie Dippold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Feig. #Ghostbusters
As an academic this movie is one of the most bitingly accurate satires of academia I've ever seen. And I love it. #Ghostbusters (2016) #AnswertheCall
Also, check out the article @pcbryan.bsky.social and I wrote about this awesome film that was published in the Journal of American Culture. If you can't get past the paywall we'll happily share a copy. doi.org/10.1111/jacc... Also, #HATM friends should come out for the biting satire of higher ed.
It’s a tie between these two that my husband and I regularly say.
Anderson's Feed (2001). Everyone has a chip in their brain with access to the internet in front of their faces. School has been trademarked and is run by corporations. Advertising is everywhere. People are addicted to entertainment and aren't paying attention to devastating climate change and war.
#HATM Guys, Sneakers (1992) is finally on Prime! This is not a drill! Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, David Strathairn... Please can we do it @herberthistory.bsky.social, pretty please.
So, I don't normally like to post my student's creative projects, but I had a student turn in a creative project for one of our books that included this cursed AI image. Is it conjoined twins, is it a person with only one leg and no head? Who knows! 🤷
The most recent meme in your photo roll describes your mental state (I’m counting this as a meme)
According to the show's podcast, this scene is one of the inspirations behind the season 3 finale scene with Chuck. 😭 #HATM #TheConversation
I mean, the Claude logo does remind me of this Kurt Vonnegut bit in Breakfast of Champions.
The Melissa McCarthy movie The Boss has a similar-ish premise. It's not great, but if you don't mind dumb movies it's kind of fun. #HATM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bos...
This feels like Badnews Bears for Girl Scouts #HATM #TroopZero
No cheating; your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. Hmmm
Discovered a half eaten slice of pizza outside my third floor classroom window.
Sorry some of the pictures have captions blocking them. It’s apparently how they’re doing captions now, which makes it hard to get a screenshot.
I’ll be honest, I find owls kind of freaky/scary, but this content is so wholesome and delightful!
So, my Instagram is nothing but zoos so I can calm down by looking at cute animals before I go to bed. Did all of them do “superb owl” content yesterday? Yes, yes they did (well, most of them did)
Put the Olympics on in the background and it skiathalon came on. We weren't sure what that was so I looked it up. Read it out loud to my husband who replied: "I would just use the classic technique of go fast..." 😆
Was only a matter of time. Found this out on the same day I tried to schedule a MMR vaccine and was told I'm too young (I got the shot when I was a kid, but I was still concerned because over 500 people have it less than an hour away from me). So awesome.
The first time I did it I forgot to keep in the whole of the post’s text, so I did it again. My year will be sloppy potato? Could be worse, I guess.
The production design on this film is amazing. It must have been so much fun to design everything upside down!