Matt Wanat
@mattwanat.bsky.social
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Teacher. Writer.
#BobDylan
#Scaduto
#SouthwestPopularCultureAssociation
Invited to a student's podcast to discuss Dylan's first album so I revisited Scaduto's bio on my way to and from the Southwest PCA. I first remember reading the Scaduto in the break room at Rubbermaid, 1991.
about 18 hours ago
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#RobertAltman
#TheDelinquents
#TomLaughlin
#JuvenileDelinquency
10 days ago
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Was just talking with my buddy Curtis about Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin & Delores Taylor, 1971). This essay contains some of my thoughts on the film.
#TomLaughlin
#Western
#DeloresTaylor
#BillyJack
#DadMoviesAgainstFascism
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Gender and the Generic Imperative: The Curious Case of Billy Jack
Originally presented for the Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio (AURCO), Ohio University Lancaster, April 2013.Thanks for reading!
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/gender-and-the-generic-imperative?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
11 days ago
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#cognition
#attentioneconomy
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The Attention Economy’s Endgame: When Cognition Itself Becomes a Depleted Resource
The Mining of the Mind
https://open.substack.com/pub/harmoniousdiscourse/p/the-attention-economys-endgame-when?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
15 days ago
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#JoyceBrabner
#HarveyPekar
#Cleveland
#FrankStack
16 days ago
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#ChuckNorris
#SilentRage
#NobelPrize
#Zombie
#Cronenberg
#Action
#Slasher
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17 days ago
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#Wussy
#AssPonys
#RobertJr.Lockwood
#RobertLockwoodJr
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#JamesBrown
#KingRecords
#Cincinnati
#Cleveland
#Ohio
#RyCooder
18 days ago
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#BroderickCrawford
#RobertParrish
#CharlesBronson
#RichardKiley
#BettyBuehler
#ErnestBorgnine
#NevilleBrand
#LynnBaggett
#TheMob
20 days ago
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#JamesBest
#SamuelFuller
#DukesofHazzard
#JohnFlynn
#BuddBoetticher
#Western
#AnthonyMann
#AndyGriffith
#ConstanceTowers
#ForbiddenPlanet
#LeslieNielsen
#RayHarryHausen
#BurtReynolds
#KillerShrews
#Beastfrom20,000Fathoms
#Godzilla
#SamBottoms
#GeneEvans
#LarryTucker
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The Best of James Best
Ten "Best" Movies
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/the-best-of-james-best?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
23 days ago
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#JLeeThompson
#WhiteBuffalo
#CharlesBronson
#CreatureFeature
#WildBillHickok
#CrazyHorse
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The Return of The White Buffalo (J. Lee Thompson, 1977)
The White Buffalo (J.
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/the-return-of-the-white-buffalo-j?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
24 days ago
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#SavageSwordofConan
#JohnBuscema
#RoyThomas
#Conan
#LSpraguedeCamp
#RobertEHoward
#Authoritarianism
#DadMoviesAgainstFascism
28 days ago
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#StarTrek
#SpaceSeed
#WrathofKhan
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On Ceti Alpha V did Noonien Singh Khan a leather-clad pleasure dome decree
Star Trek: “Space Seed” (S1:E22, 1966)
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/on-ceti-alpha-v-did-noonien-singh?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
29 days ago
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#NatalieWood
#RobertRedford
#CharlesBronson
#RobertBlake
#SydneyPollack
#FrancisFordCoppola
#TennesseeWilliams
#SixtiesMovies
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Review of This Property is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966)
This Property is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966)
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/review-of-this-property-is-condemned?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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#snow
about 1 month ago
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“Power without justice is just violence." Review of Karate for Life (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1977)
#SonnyChiba
#Karate
#ActionFilm
#JapaneseFilm
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Karate for Life (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1977)
PLEX Pulp & Tussles for the Treadmill
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/karate-for-life-kazuhiko-yamaguchi?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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#Westerns
#Warshow
#PopularCulture
#Elitism
#Revisionism
#FilmGenre
#FilmHistory
#TheOxBowIncident
#TheVirginian
A little highfalutin for a Friday morning, but do people still remember Warshow's "Movie Chronicle: The Westerner" (1954)?
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On “Movie Chronicle: The Westerner” (Robert Warshow, 1954)
First appearing in Partisan Review in 1954, Robert Warshow’s “Movie Chronicle: The Westerner” shared table of contents with part of a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer in a journal whose editorial board ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/on-movie-chronicle-the-westerner?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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#Terminator
#BladeRunner
#TheHitcher
#ManiacCop
#SilentRage
#EightiesActionMovies
#RoboCop
#BreakingBad
#NoCountryforOldMen
#CoenBrothers
#Cujo
#CapeFear
#NightoftheHunter
#ImplacableVillains
#Predator
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Implacable Villainy & the Long Eighties
Ontological Restructuring and the Implacable Villain
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/implacable-villainy-and-the-long?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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#HenryHathaway
#CharlesOLocke
#R.G.Armstrong
#ChillWills
#Western
#DennisHopper
about 1 month ago
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#Maniac
#JoeSpinell
#WilliamLustig
#WoodyStrode
#RobertForster
#FredWilliamson
Maniac (William Lustig, 1980) Vigilante (William Lustig, 1983) Now playing on Criterion
about 1 month ago
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#SonnyChiba
#Bullshido
#Aikido
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Get over Bullshido, The Decisive Power of Aikido (Shigehiro Ozawa, 1975)
If I were to write about Aikido, Bullshido, and Seagal anti-fandom at greater length, I would begin by trying to carefully consider the complex authenticity politics of martial arts aesthetics in popu...
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/get-over-bullshido-the-decisive-power?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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Historical Outdoor Drama The first question Tenskwatawa asks of the script might be "What is a 'nation' anyway?" & "Who gets to live where and why and on whose authority and why?" But in the process of this consideration we might add that this bird doesn't know it lives in the fuckin' "A."
about 2 months ago
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#ohio
#athensohio
#ohiolibraries
#ohiouniversity
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Help University Libraries + get free books
To create additional teaching, research and learning spaces for students and faculty, Ohio University Libraries is parting ways with approximately 300,000 books and journal issues.
https://www.ohio.edu/news/2025/12/help-university-libraries-get-free-books?fbclid=IwY2xjawPWI_5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeZ90ObCh4lYwC-Qz4OEzMik5bM3whTEA_2BX2_V3lEwRxmlyzhS0x5fePrSo_aem_DP2IFSHAwF3phxuNPwlaBQ
about 2 months ago
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#SonnyChiba
#KinjiFukasaku
#yakuzafilm
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Doberman Cop (Kinji Fukasaku, 1977)
Doberman Cop (Kinji Fukasaku, 1977)
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/doberman-cop-kinji-fukasaku-1977?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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#OrsonWelles
#MagnificentAmbersons
#LostFilm
#Auteur
#WellesNet
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'Magnificent Ambersons' reconstruction update (video exclusive)
Wellesnet was afforded the opportunity to view a reconstruction of "The Magnificent Ambersons" and share a sample.
https://wellesnet.com/magnificent-ambersons-reconstruction-update/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPPV0RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeBS_pJmUBdLit2OalwhwrCMC-ObXN8ORV_cnIbj-VypUeeihLjpukPMAKo78_aem_SbNs1nFS3Vjz2G2VbsG1Xg
about 2 months ago
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#TDS
#CabinetofDr.Caligari
#Kracauer
#FromCaligaritoHitler
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From Caligari to TDS
Foolish April 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/from-caligari-to-tds?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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#entropy
#energy
#AI
#socialmedia
#cryptocurrency
#thermodynamics
#charlesbronson
#waitingforgodot
#beckett
#memes
#apocalypse
#fromnoontillthree
#dadmoviesagainstfascism
#largelanguagemodels
#onlineenergyusage
about 2 months ago
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Read the rest of the article at
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#TeresaGraves
#AngieDickinson
#GetChristieLove
#PoliceWoman
#Charlie'sAngels
#Cagney&Lacey
#MurderSheWrote
#RockfordFiles
#Columbo
#LindaMizejewski
#Law&Order
#WomenLawEnforcement
about 2 months ago
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#JBLenoir
#RobertLockwoodJr
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#RobertJr.Lockwood
#JeanLucGodard
#BluesFilm
#AmericanFolkBluesFestival
#RosettaTharpe
#WillieDixon
#MartinScorsese
#WimWenders
#FredBelow
about 2 months ago
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#MichaelParks
Always the charmer, Sir Michael Parks.
2 months ago
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#ShortFiction
Links are in the Substack.
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Two Works of Fiction
Links to stories in Burningword and The Wax Paper
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/two-works-of-fiction?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
2 months ago
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#ChuckNorris
#Convoy
#VillageVirus
#PhilKarlson
#FirstBlood
#WakeinFright
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“It Sounds Like Thunder”: Breaker! Breaker! (Don Hulette, 1977)
Chuck Norris in Breaker!
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/it-sounds-like-thunder-breaker-breaker?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
2 months ago
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Shored Fragments & Having One’s Say
Thanks for reading!
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/shored-fragments-and-having-ones?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
2 months ago
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#JamesBest
#SamuelFuller
#BuddBoetticher
#AnthonyMann
#DukesofHazard
#JohnFlynn
#Westerns
#ForbiddenPlanet
#RayHarryhausen
#BMovies
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The Best of James Best
Ten James Best Movies
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/the-best-of-james-best?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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#onlinecommunity
#influencer
#ohio
#tlatelolco
#walterdavis
#psychoanalysis
#scottgalloway
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Environmental Awareness
Writing the Following
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/environmental-awareness?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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#Hitchcock
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
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4 months ago
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#TwilightZone
Twilight Zone (S3:E1): "Two" (15 September 1961) Elizabeth Montgomery & Charles Bronson
4 months ago
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Was Emerson an “Influencer”?
From egoful influencer to critical consumer...
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/was-emerson-an-influencer?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
4 months ago
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Death Wish II (Michael Winner, 1982)
4 months ago
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#Ohio
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Sky-Driven Cities: When the Moon Wrote the Master Plan
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
https://open.substack.com/pub/roguearthistorian/p/sky-driven-cities-when-the-moon-wrote?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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#Ohio
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What Happened in Ohio
What Happened in Ohio
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/what-happened-in-ohio?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016), Budget $5 million
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4 months ago
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#ohio
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The Trouble With Ohio
Politics and Inadequate Service Stall Potentially Strong Market for Intercity Passenger Rail
https://open.substack.com/pub/ellissimon/p/the-trouble-with-ohio?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
5 months ago
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bsky.app/profile/tomp...
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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#postapocalyptic
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#fiction
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#horror
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#postapocalypticfiction
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The Boiled Guts of Birds
Originally published in Coffin Bell 6:3
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/the-boiled-guts-of-birds?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
5 months ago
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#OhioFiction
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#Fiction
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#Ohio
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Two Works of Fiction
Links to stories in Burningword and The Wax Paper
https://open.substack.com/pub/docwanat/p/two-works-of-fiction?r=22egl6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
5 months ago
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#RockfordFiles
5 months ago
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#Ohio
5 months ago
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#immigration
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#palestine
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#undergroundboxing
One of our MFA film students, Moe Essam, is doing a GoFundMe for a film project: One Round Underground, about an immigrant experience and underground fighting. GoFundMe:
gofund.me/590e12e1
GoFundMe Video:
lnkd.in/gqquMjpd
Instagram:
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Donate to Support Moe's Heartfelt MFA Thesis Film Project, organized by Moe Essam
I’m raising funds to complete my MFA thesis film, One Round Underground, a p… Moe Essam needs your support for Support Moe's Heartfelt MFA Thesis Film Project
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-moes-heartfelt-mfa-thesis-film-project?attribution_id=sl:523c9685-3b07-4172-a04a-dcdce850e959&lang=en_US&ts=1752714790&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_c-amp14_t2-amp15_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&v=amp14_t2
5 months ago
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