The History Behind ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’
Like Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s previous American Horror Story incarnations, Freak Show (2014) is keenly aware of its precursors….
Study of geek culture
Outlander Anthropology
By Emma Louise Backe A couple of weeks ago, Alex Golub wrote a post for Savage Minds about how Guardians…
The Journey to Lake Geneva – Spot Check 24
by NICK MIZER In which I pronounce Jason Azze’s name correctly, worry about “first contact” with old school gamers, and…
New Journal Alert: Analog Game Studies
Over the past year I’ve been learning some great lessons about interdisciplinarity through conversations with a great group of scholars interested in analog games (centrally, but not solely, RPGs). These conversations started informally at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, and have evolved into a new online journal, Analog Game Studies.
Terraforming the Imagination: How to Build a Convincing Fictional Universe
By Emma Louise Backe Fantasy and science fiction writers do it all the time—build a world, sometimes an entire universe,…
The Geek Anthropologist 