HUM 3085: Florida CultureFall 2010

Dr. PerdigaoNovember 22-29, 2010

I’m in Miami Trick?

Miami the base and the sunset low

Third-order imitation?

Till the break of dawn

South-sea meringue melting pot

Grand theftery?

“The PlayStation 2 game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, amongst its many references to Miami Vice, features two gangs dressed as extras from the scene in which Tubbs arrives in Miami (see image above) - the Cubans wear the white-and-red t-shirt of the man on the left, whilst the Haitians wear the purple vest and blue jeans of the man on the right.”

http://miamivice.wikia.com/wiki/Brother's_Keeper

Fourth-order?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUydfq3i60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYsqMEX4Oh8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWTJ1YZJsYk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6bTvCRhG6k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948&playnext=1&list=PL4D85924AF67A7140&index=34

Florida on youtube

“I always prided myself on being an outsider… but now… I feel the need to connect with someone.”

“People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess.”

“I’ve lived in darkness a long time. Over the years my eyes adjusted, until the dark became my world and I could see.”

“There’s something strange and disarming about looking at a homicide scene in the daylight of Miami. It makes the most grotesque killings look staged, like you're in a new and daring section of Disney World: Dahmerland!”

--Dexter

“My badge says Miami, but here lately it’s been looking a lot like Disney World!”

“If Miami hasn’t got it, they haven’t invented it yet.” --Miami Vice

Back to Disney?

“We are being detoured into the land of make-believe.”

Calleigh Duquesne: Yeah, but you know, I was thinking. If he hadn’t have stolen from the mob, then he never would have become a beach bum in Florida and then he never would have got picked up by the hurricane. Then if he hadn’t got picked up by the hurricane he would have never hit Burton's car, and if it wasn't for hitting Burton’s car, Burton would have gotten away with murder. Eric Delko: [Smiling] Leave it to you, Calleigh, to find something good to come out of a hurricane. Calleigh Duquesne: [Smiling] They do alleviate global warming. [She leaves] Tim Speedle: [to Eric] She’s way too cheerful.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313043/quotes

Sonny Crockett: Hate waiting, feel like a character in a Beckett play. Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Since when do you know Beckett? Sonny Crockett: Charlie Beckett, works down at the shoeshine, writes plays on the side.

Sonny Crockett: Damn, these birds are noisy. At least they’re not in a cage, sort of a natural habitat. Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Kind of like an alligator in a sailboat.

Det. Ricardo Tubbs: [During heat a wave] Man, I can dig tropical, but this is out of bounds.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/quotes

Draw a heart in the sand

Miami Vice (1984-1990); film (2006)

CSI: Miami (2002- )

Dexter (2006- )

Miami as “encircled by these ‘imaginary stations’ which feed reality, reality-energy, to a town whose mystery is precisely that it is nothing more than a network of endless, unreal circulation: a town of fabulous proportions, but without space or dimensions.” (406)

Late 1980s-1990s, “emphasis on image and cultural representation” (Salmon 107), globalization, new industries (finance, high technology and information fields) (108)

“By creating simulated tradition, the commodified spectacle, studded with all available artifacts and relics, obscures the city’s real history as well as its contemporary reality” (Salmon 110).

Every day like mardi gras

“Fifty years after the home invasion of television, we are still trying to understand its multiple meanings. From its beginnings, TV exposed and amplified America’s virtues and flaws: affluence and vitality, discrimination and stratification, creativity and conformity. Statistics do not lie. Television in midcentury Florida was as exotic as it was remote—one set for every 170 residents; five decades later, television has evolved from the 12-inch black-and-white Zenith Cinébeam to wall-sized entertainment centers with Plasma screens and satellite dishes receiving 250 cable stations, with a TV for every other resident” (Mormino 278). (in 2005)

“In 1950, Miami reveled in its reputation as the most recognizable and most exotic city of a dream state” (Mormino 25).

“While Miami was a fascinating city in the 1950s, few regarded it as a leading American city. The future changed Miami’s image and reputation. A speeded-up newsreel concentrates the energy and fury of Miami and Miami Beach’s four decades of change: Little Havana, Marielitos, boat people, race riots, Liberty City, Miami Vice, Arquitectonica, the Dolphins, Versace, South Beach, and Miami Sound” (25).

Thank you, Jan Hammer

Flipper (1964-1967, Coral Key; 1995-2000) The Golden Girls (1985-1992, Miami) Empty Nest (1988-1995, Miami) Silk Stalkings (1991-1999, Palm Beach) Nip/Tuck (2003-2010; first four seasons in Miami) Burn Notice (2007- ; Miami) Cougar Town (2009- ; Sarasota area) The Glades (2010?)

Reality (??)TV Jersey Shore? (2010) Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami (2009-??) Bad Girls Club: Miami (2010) Real World: Miami (1996), Real World: Key West (2006) Miami Ink (2005-2008) Police Women of Broward County (2009) Hogan Knows Best (2005-2008); Brooke Knows Best (2008)

Bringing the heat

Retiree TV?

Sketchy Florida?

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/09/is_sarasota_cougar_town.html

Family Florida?

Not Family Florida

Criminal Florida