Dan
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | University teacher |
| Location | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Introduction | I am a lecturer in Media Studies and English Literature at the University of Amsterdam, where I am currently completing my dissertation on superhero figures in post-9/11 culture (hence this blog's title). I like to think, talk, write, and argue about movies and books, not necessarily in that order. |
| Interests | film, music, literature |
| Favorite movies | Mulholland Drive, Dr. Strangelove, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Jackie Brown, Jules et Jim, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Annie Hall, The Empire Strikes Back, The Royal Tenenbaums, Dazed and Confused, The Big Lebowski, My Dinner with André, Synecdoche, New York |
| Favorite music | Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss, Beastie Boys, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, Teddy Thompson, Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson |
| Favorite books | Where the Wild Things Are, A Confederacy of Dunces, Gulliver's Travels, London Fields, Watchmen, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Maus, Underworld, A Man in Full, The Possibility of an Island |