A. D. Jameson celebrates Geek Culture in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing. Jameson shows how geeks came to dominate the best Box Office with movies like The Avengers, the Star Wars series, the Batman series, and Avatar. Comics, graphic novels, YouTube videos, and fan fiction affect an audience hungry for more content. But, amid this glorification of Geek Culture, I detect some cracks. The Solo movie just underperformed leading to speculation of “Star Wars fatigue.” How many MARVEL series can succeed on Netflix? Do people still want to see the rampaging dinosaurs in Jurassic Park movies? Are you a geek? Do you like Star Wars and MARVEL/DC super-hero movies? GRADE: B
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction: The Golden Age of Geekdom 3
Part I: The Story So Far
1. “Oh, I’m Back Out in Space Again”: The Realism of Star Wars 23
2. The Children of Spielberg and Lucas 43
3. Geek Goes Mainstream 65
Part II: What Every Geek Wants
4. Do You Bleed? 87
5. Historical Documents 111
6. The Great Geek Game 123
7. Geeking Out 157
Part III: To Be Continued . . .
8. I’ve Got a Bad Feeling about This: The Importance of Being Geeky 177
9. Why So Serious? 203
10. Back Out in Space Again: The Beauty of Star Wars 225
Notes 247
Acknowledgments 273
Index 275
I’d say, not a geek, but I do like most of the movies. But if “geek” is defined as someone who sees every movie the day it opens, then no. And as for Marvel on Netflix, less is definitely more for me. There is enough darkness in the world, if you know what I mean.
Jeff, there’s an obsessive-compulsive aspect to A. D. Jameson’s analysis of “geeks.” He quotes one fan who tells him, “I can named every character in GAME OF THRONES!” That is geeky.
I watched the first three Star Wars movies and found them childish – couldn’t get myself to watch any more and Marvel?
The only comics I really enjoyed were in MAD – where I had a subscription for many years.
Fun fact:
Usually I got info on new movies from MAD, long before they came to Europe – so I knew whether they were worth a visit … 🙂
We lately watched a few SF movies (my wife’s son is also a DF fan like my wife and me and downloaded some for us) on the tv – and we both found them so boooring …
Wolf, I was a big fan of MAD in the 1960s and 1970s. Somehow, I stopped reading MAD in the 1980s.
Apparently the definition of “geek” that the book and you are using is far different from it’s original usage in the 1980s. That had to do with intense interest in science and technology, along with an interest in Role Playing Games and video games. You could recognize the geek by the pocket protector in his shirt with a couple of pens or pencils. Probably wore glasses. Now it seems the term is thrown around for just about anything. I don’t consider any of the things you list as “geeky”. So I reject the premise of the book and won’t bother with it.
Rick, the term “geek” is elastic according to A. D. Jameson. It originally referred to guys who bit the heads off of live chickens in carnivals.
Eeeeek!
Wasn’t that “nerd”? Or do they mean the same?
Maybe I should look it up in the “Urban dictionary” -but then I’d get sidetracked again by all the crazy stuff that’s in there. 🙂