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Originally Posted by neverending
That's frightening- you'd actually PAY somebody to make you read Twilight.... wait till Doc reads this.
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Classes like this have been going for awhile. A few years ago, a university in California offered a class in Buffy the Vampire Slayer studies. The world of academics is like a combination of Superman's nemesis Brainiac and your dad. There is a desire to attain and explore cultural information, but that information is not quite processed right. There is also a desire to connect to the students and to be hip, a misguided senseless version of hip. It would be great if intelligent studies of popular culture got written, but it doesn't happen very often and comes not out of the ivory tower but out of the mouths of guys like Tim Lucas and Joe Bob Briggs. Twilight will of course be embraced by academics while it is popular and they will attribute traits to it that they believe to be unique in pop culture history and these will be accepted since a lot of those studying the work don't have any grounding in the genre beyond the obvious literary canon and what their teenage daughter is reading. Hopefully, the Mormon AIDS monger and catalyst for a generation of fatherless Charlie Mansons manque will fade from our culture fast enough for this impact to be ephemeral, an impressive financial footnote.