Theorizing Stupid Media

Aaron Michael Kerner is a Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, USA. His previous publications include: Extreme Cinema (2016), Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 (2015), and Film and the Holocaust (2011).Julian Hoxter is an Associate Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, USA. His previous publications include: Off the Page: Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence (2017), Screenwriting (Behind the Silver Screen Series Book 8) (2014). He has published two screenwriting textbooks.

• 1.The Stupider the Better.- 2.The Stupid in the Contemporary Hollywood Vernacular: Spectacularly Stupid Transformers.- 3.The Stupid in Genre Fails.- 4.The Stupid as Narrative Dissonance.- 5.The Stupid as Ludonarrative Dissonance.- 6.Conclusion: Well That Was Stupid.