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Sequel! Sequel!

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

Given that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo didn’t exactly have the box office mojo the studio had expected, we fans feared that the answer to the “will-they-or-won’t-they-do-a-sequel” question would be a firm “no.” (See stats, below.) But good news: Lisbeth Salander … Continue reading →

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Lisbeth, Graphically Yours

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

As we previewed last October and this January, DC Entertainment’s Vertigo imprint will publish a graphic version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo this coming November. Just released is the comic book world’s equivalent of a trailer: a free 24-page special edition preview … Continue reading →

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Mad Men, 1966, and Stieg Larsson

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

The new season of the TV show Mad Men has grabbed its biggest audience ever and triggered new media interest in the culture of 1966, which provides the backdrop for this year’s plot. Having been through the death of JFK and the … Continue reading →

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The DVD is out

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has just been released on DVD. We continue to welcome comments from the followers of The Tattooed Girl blog about the David Fincher/Rooney Mara/Sony film itself, or in comparison to the Scandinavian film versions with … Continue reading →

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Fans of Stieg Larsson and Lisbeth Salander may want to get ready for The Hunger Games movie:

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

There is some crossover in the fan bases of author Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (and the rest of her trilogy) and Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (and the rest of his trilogy)—but not much. That’s largely … Continue reading →

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The Fictional Mikael Blomkvist as Role Model for Journalists…According to the Columbia Journalism Review:

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

In a piece entitled “The Girl Who Loved Journalists,” Eric Alterman wrote about Stieg Larsson and his fiction characters’ impact on the debate over the future of journalism. Alterman is a distinguished professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and the … Continue reading →

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A garota tatuada em Português

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

The Tattooed Girl was published in Portugal last month, timed to coincide with that country’s release of the David Fincher The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film. The book was reviewed or commented on by more than a dozen prominent Portuguese publications. We’re gratified … Continue reading →

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Stieg Larsson and his characters: always thinking

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

There’s a lot of thinking going on in Stieg Larsson’s three Millennium novels.  This is especially true when compared to most American detective and mystery fiction. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, we encounter dozens of scenes where characters including … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Just About Arnold Anymore

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

For decades, action heroes in films were the exclusive domain of a series of “manly” men: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jackie Chan, and so on. Women in these stories, just like in most Hollywood scripts,  were … Continue reading →

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CBS: The Men Who Hate Women?

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

In this week’s entertainment news, we learn that CBS has green-lighted the pilot for a new series to be called “Quean.” The network says the show “concerns an edgy and independent millennial hacker girl who teams up with an Oakland … Continue reading →

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