Popular Culture and Extraordinary Bodies
Popular culture has long been the place where these half felt sensations are most deeply explored. In an often garish and oppressive medium where staring at someone can be too easily equated with understanding someone, popular culture has often appealed to extraordinary bodies in order to generate content to sell products.
In the following film clip, Mulder and Scully from the television show, The X-Files, recognize the important link between low brow entertainment and exceptional bodies in the episode, Post-Modern Prometheus, creating a strange melange of images from horror movies, comic books, and evolutionary and developmental biology.
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