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My friend, I'm happy for your compliment. Frankly, I'm flattered that someone read my entire comment (I was stoned when I wrote it). But know that I'm just a recent history graduate with nothing much to offer (seriously, I got my degree no more than two days ago). I think you must be feeling right now how tiring, and often not very rewarding, this process can be. So, to anyone reading this: don't give up.

In fact, my own thesis was about science fiction and its relationship to the postmodern condition. In this trajectory, I've always preferred the insight of Marxists -- and Marxists know how incompatible they are with postmodern theories, but anyway --, including Benjamin and Marcuse, but not only. In case you're interested, another author who, although not mentioned, permeates this text, is Fredric Jameson. He's a guy (now an old man) who has been writing some very interesting things about culture and society since the 1970s. He's certainly written something about cinema. But unfortunately, I don't know much about cinema myself.