four-thirty-three

• Overthinking It
Analysis/deconstruction of popcultural objects. Recommended posts: The Real (Symbolic, and Imaginary) Ghostbusters (which analyzes the film in terms of Lacan’s notions of the Real), Bon Jovi: Livin’ on a Prayer and Music Theory, and I Will Always Have Been Back: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger.
• The Vigilant Citizen
The problem with conspiracy [...]

Maoist propaganda posters are OK, and Soviet Constructivist posters are pretty damn rad (and the continuing influence of these two styles of art was apparent pretty recently).  But image for image, nothing surpasses the unsettling and sublimely beautiful aesthetics of Polish movie posters.
Polish movie posters
More Polish movie posters
Yet more Polish movie posters
Sweet Jesus, more Polish [...]