We're Still Talking

Thanks to Joe Bob Briggs for the pomp, circumstance, and know-how.  That is a man for whom reasoned expertise is second nature.  University of Texas Press and the "American Twilight" editors took the momentum to graciously invite the speakers from the Joe Bob Briggs event back to cover things more in-depth.

(Above) Scout Tafoya leads a far-reaching conversation full of allusions with "American Twilight" editor Will Dodson that covers all of Hooper's marginalized TV work and the politics of distrust and paranoia subsumed into all of them, not as a sharpened or pointed political sling (often manifested as satire in those outside works) but as a general malaise of anger and rebellion.  The Bush presidential cabinet is a particular target for Hooper's, and the participants', disdain.

(Above) First-hand observer of Hooper's working methods Stan Giesea and someone who looks an awful lot like myself provide, with the help of moderating presence Dr. Will Dodson, PhD, a more focused, smaller-in-scope discussion on ideas barely formed and secrets unlocked, but put forth in the shape Hooper scholarship has so far taken, which is theses, manifestos, and histories yet to be written.  "American Twilight" is of course the ideal of where scholarship can go, but we show how a live Hooper seminar might play in the future after a few speech lessons and public speaking tutorials.

 

(Above) Co-editors Kristopher Woofter, PhD. and Will Dodson, PhD. discuss the themes running through their writers' essays and get surprisingly passionate about underrated Hooper films from The Funhouse  to Crocodile and Mortuary.  Getting matter-of-fact about Poltergeist is the evolution of Hooper discourse.