Academic Jargon Generator
Lloyd Fonvielle
http://www.brysons.net/generator/textonly.cgi
It's meant for books but works just as well for films. Here's what I
got for Charlie Chaplin + "The Circus":
1. Savaging, Demarking, Violating: Degeneration in Charlie Chaplin
and the Oppressive Ideology of Borderlines in "The Circus"
2. The Voices of Notions and the Political in Charlie Chaplin's
"The Circus"
3. Masculist Borderlines and the Tongues of Native Violence in
Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus"
4. Dialogic Resistance and the Modernity of Perverted Textuality in
Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus"
5. Assimilating the Heterosexual Economies in Charlie Chaplin: "The
Circus" and Supplement
Now anybody can be an academic film critic!
Jeff NY
>
Can't be sure, but I'll bet THIS is where McFarland comes up with titles for
film books!
(Re)reading, Re-visioning, Challenging: Dis-ease in Stepin Fetchit and the
Primal Concealment of Tyranny in 1930's Comedies
Silencing the Existential Dissection in Terry-Tunes: Animation and Edges
The Ethos of Desire and the Postmodern in Shirley Temple's Motion Pictures
Bodies and Notions in Comedies: Anna May Wong: Historicizing Oriental
Capitalism
Troubling Hybridity: Labial Violence in Mae Murray's Motion Pictures
jeff
Precode
London After Midnight: The Origins of Mystery and Horror in the
Psychosexual Tensions of Our Culture
Mike S.
(and that's not even the stuff involving Kubrick!)
Lokke Heiss
> London After Midnight: The Origins of Mystery and Horror in the
> Psychosexual Tensions of Our Culture
>
A very funny website, but it got me thinking: am I the only poster to
AMS that actually GIVES papers like these?
So here are the titles of my last three papers, presented the the
International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, and you all
can tell me if you'd actually want to hear these papers, or if they
sound like an academic jargon generator:
The Death and Life of Drakula (a paper about the search for the 1921
Hungarian silent movie, The Death of Drakula)
The Man Who Would be Disney (a paper about Wizard of Oz's Frank Baum
and his attempt to start a Hollywood movie empire based on his books)
That '70s Show: The Year Frankenstein Came out of the Closet, Wearing
Garters (a look at Frankenstein films in the 1970s, and how they
reflected the sexual revolution of that era)
So do these titles sound slightly more plausible than the ones from
the generator?
ML-78
> So here are the titles of my last three papers, presented the the
> International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, and you all
> can tell me if you'd actually want to hear these papers, or if they
> sound like an academic jargon generator:
>
> The Death and Life of Drakula (a paper about the search for the 1921
> Hungarian silent movie, The Death of Drakula)
I'd certainly like to hear or read this one. Is it available somewhere
in written form?
ML-78
Bruce Calvert
<50c2fb1d.04082...@posting.google.com>, Lokke Heiss stated...
>So here are the titles of my last three papers, presented the the
>International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, and you all
>can tell me if you'd actually want to hear these papers, or if they
>sound like an academic jargon generator:
>
>The Death and Life of Drakula (a paper about the search for the 1921
>Hungarian silent movie, The Death of Drakula)
>
>The Man Who Would be Disney (a paper about Wizard of Oz's Frank Baum
>and his attempt to start a Hollywood movie empire based on his books)
>
>That '70s Show: The Year Frankenstein Came out of the Closet, Wearing
>Garters (a look at Frankenstein films in the 1970s, and how they
>reflected the sexual revolution of that era)
>
>So do these titles sound slightly more plausible than the ones from
>the generator?
Lokke,
These titles sound reasonable to me. As long as you don't use the words
"digesis" and "duality" in them, I'm sure that they are very interesting.
Bruce Calvert
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Robert Lipton
They sound more interesting with some hints of wit.
Bob
R H Draney
>
>These titles sound reasonable to me. As long as you don't use the words
>"digesis" and "duality" in them, I'm sure that they are very interesting.
*Thank* you!...I knew there was a word that the OP's jargonizer needed if it
wanted to write pretentiously about movies, but I couldn't figure out a way to
Google for it without remembering the word itself (thus finding the key locked
in the safe)....
"Diegesis"..."diegesis"...keep saying it to myself and maybe I'll be able to
sleep tonight....r
Constance Kuriyama
> > > >Now anybody can be an academic film critic!
>
> > London After Midnight: The Origins of Mystery and Horror in the
> > Psychosexual Tensions of Our Culture
> >
>
> A very funny website, but it got me thinking: am I the only poster to
> AMS that actually GIVES papers like these?
No, you aren't the only one here who gives academic papers, nor are
all academic
papers nonsensical. It's the excesses of theoretical jargon that sites
like this target.
Your titles are perfectly understandable.
Connie K.
Lokke Heiss
> > the generator?
>
>
> They sound more interesting with some hints of wit.
I'm glad there's only "hints." I charge money for anything more than a tease.
OtiGoji
>(and that's not even the stuff involving Kubrick!)
So, I am like all:
Murder and Ethos in A Clockwork Orange: Stanley Kubrick Complicating Primal
Diaspora
It's all true, you know.
Otius Gojius
"...but the surface of the Earth is not a cake carefully arranged in layers. It
is more like a cake that has been dropped..." - Richard Ellis