I heard a paper about LOTR's use of leitmotif once. It was weird to hear a pop-culture paper in which the pop culture was intended to legitimize the academic construct ("look! Leitmotives are still relevant! Really!"). I'm not sure if that speaks to the respectability of LOTR or the desperateness of people who care about leitmotives.
*snerk* That's awesome. Although, uh, I like leitmotives? And now someone needs to update that paper with a section on the new Battlestar Galactica, because they're all over the place on that show.
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Date: 2009-05-05 09:02 pm (UTC)Much of what I tend to watch is.
I heard a paper about LOTR's use of leitmotif once. It was weird to hear a pop-culture paper in which the pop culture was intended to legitimize the academic construct ("look! Leitmotives are still relevant! Really!"). I'm not sure if that speaks to the respectability of LOTR or the desperateness of people who care about leitmotives.
*snerk* That's awesome. Although, uh, I like leitmotives? And now someone needs to update that paper with a section on the new Battlestar Galactica, because they're all over the place on that show.