One of the characteristics of image-based cultural production today is the prominence of intellectual property, which manifests itself in the unabating flood of sequels, prequels, reboots, remakes, and spin-offs. Rather than attribute any ‘decline in the rate of originality’ to an exhaustion of ideas or imagination among Hollywood executives and TV moguls, Jason Read linksContinue reading “A People That Disappears: The Adventures of China Iron”