Comments on: The Librarian: Quest For The Librarian Franchise http://savageminds.org/2009/10/07/the-librarian-quest-for-the-librarian-franchise/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Britta http://savageminds.org/2009/10/07/the-librarian-quest-for-the-librarian-franchise/comment-page-1/#comment-620293 Britta Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:33:17 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2800#comment-620293 In terms of cheesy anthropology references in popular culture, I recently came across a German made for tv movie circa about 2000. It's about a young, sexy ethnologist named Britta who travels to a fictional Arabian country to do research on ancient textiles, only to get mixed up in a web of intrigue, danger, and romance, of course. It's called "Der Arabische Prinz" (the Arabian Prince) and I'm not sure if you can find an English subtitled version online. In terms of cheesy anthropology references in popular culture, I recently came across a German made for tv movie circa about 2000. It’s about a young, sexy ethnologist named Britta who travels to a fictional Arabian country to do research on ancient textiles, only to get mixed up in a web of intrigue, danger, and romance, of course. It’s called “Der Arabische Prinz” (the Arabian Prince) and I’m not sure if you can find an English subtitled version online.

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]]> By: Erica http://savageminds.org/2009/10/07/the-librarian-quest-for-the-librarian-franchise/comment-page-1/#comment-619029 Erica Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:06:32 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2800#comment-619029 Librarians have a love/hate relationship with the portrayals of librarians in movies & tv, too. Most of us don't actually have weapons chests stashed behind the reference desks (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), or battle mummies (The Mummy), or travel to Africa or even New Orleans to retrieve mysterious scrolls or relics. In fact, perhaps not unlike anthropologists, it seems that very few people in the general public actually know what we do. If someone wants to push a librarian-as-adventurer/Indiana Jones/defender of mankind image, though, I'm happy to take it. It's better than the shushing image we usually see, after all. And just about anything with Bob Newhart in it is worth at least a look. Librarians have a love/hate relationship with the portrayals of librarians in movies & tv, too. Most of us don’t actually have weapons chests stashed behind the reference desks (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), or battle mummies (The Mummy), or travel to Africa or even New Orleans to retrieve mysterious scrolls or relics. In fact, perhaps not unlike anthropologists, it seems that very few people in the general public actually know what we do. If someone wants to push a librarian-as-adventurer/Indiana Jones/defender of mankind image, though, I’m happy to take it. It’s better than the shushing image we usually see, after all. And just about anything with Bob Newhart in it is worth at least a look.

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2009/10/07/the-librarian-quest-for-the-librarian-franchise/comment-page-1/#comment-618952 Rex Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:28:23 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2800#comment-618952 I think the novels are pretty widely read amongst Melanesianists but I had no idea they had been turned into a movie! I think the novels are pretty widely read amongst Melanesianists but I had no idea they had been turned into a movie!

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]]> By: MTBradley http://savageminds.org/2009/10/07/the-librarian-quest-for-the-librarian-franchise/comment-page-1/#comment-618927 MTBradley Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:13:20 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2800#comment-618927 This is a bit off topic since it’s not about a popcorn film, but I find it amazing how most anthropologists have never seen or even heard of "_Regeneration_":http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120001/, in which Jonathan Pryce plays W. H. R. Rivers. But I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised given the number of anthropologists who have never read or even heard of Rivers… This is a bit off topic since it’s not about a popcorn film, but I find it amazing how most anthropologists have never seen or even heard of “_Regeneration_”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120001/, in which Jonathan Pryce plays W. H. R. Rivers. But I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised given the number of anthropologists who have never read or even heard of Rivers…

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