The Nerdwriter

The Nerdwriter is a Web Video series created by Evan Puschak which began in 2011. Its purpose is to analyse cultural trends inside media and around the world, be it blockbuster films, political events or influential paintings.

His YouTube channel can be seen here and his Patreon here.

Some subjects covered in his videos:
 * Media
 * Scientology
 * Pete & Larry
 * Bookstores
 * Social Media
 * Superman (Clark Kent, Identity)
 * iTunes U
 * Independant Filmmaking
 * Downton Abbey
 * The Hobbit film adaptations
 * Comic Book Films
 * Diderot
 * Instagram (as a Take That)
 * Black Friday
 * Slow Motion (in 2014 films)(?)
 * The Lord of the Rings (The Perils of Worldbuilding)
 * The Beatles (and album covers)
 * YouTube (The Medium is the message)
 * Children of Men (background)
 * Ghost in the Shell (1995)
 * Nighthawks (painting)
 * Pan's Labyrinth
 * Interstellar (Spectacle and Story)
 * Breathless (influence of WWII in cinema)
 * Batman (evolution of Gotham City through time)
 * Eastern Promises
 * Inside Out
 * The Sandman
 * It's a Wonderful Life
 * Heat
 * Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban
 * Las Meninas (painting)
 * Seinfeld ("nothing")
 * "Work" (Rihanna song, Dancehall)
 * The Lord of the Rings (music)
 * The Prestige
 * Ren and Stimpy
 * Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo)
 * Melancholia
 * Serial novels (evolution)
 * Steely Dan
 * Picasso
 * Mulholland Drive
 * Game of Thrones (Dragons and Tone)
 * "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
 * The Office (UK)
 * The Darjeeling Limited
 * Batman v Superman
 * Casey Neistat (vlogs)
 * Movie Violence
 * "Holocene" (Bon Iver)
 * The Truman Show
 * Saving Private Ryan


 * Concepts
 * Modern Art
 * Population Growth
 * Cyberpunk
 * Hipsters
 * Minimalism (in a modern context)
 * Time
 * Shakespeare (on Love)
 * Magnum Opus
 * Lawrence Durrell (Relativity in Literature)
 * Game of Thrones (Philosophies)
 * Kintsugi
 * Nuclear Weapons and Art Forgers
 * Video Games as Art
 * Architecture (future)
 * Right to be Forgotten
 * Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenom
 * Sam Pepper (On Socially-Enforced Morality)
 * Corruption of American Politics
 * Atemporality (Our relationship to history has changed)
 * The right to die
 * Thanksgiving
 * Art and its influence on the Internet
 * The waste of tax money
 * "Intertextuality"
 * Brexit
 * Fact-checking (Donald Trump)


 * Events
 * Occupy Wall Street
 * Europe's situation in 2012
 * SOPA
 * Modern Egypt history
 * The Irak War
 * Clint Eastwood's infamous "Chair" speech


 * People
 * Steve Jobs (Apple)
 * Christopher Hitchens
 * Mitt Romney
 * Craig Ferguson
 * Louis CK
 * Donald Trump (as a gift to democracy, how he answers a *question)
 * E. E. Cummings
 * Ansel Adams
 * Edvard Munich (self portrait)


 * "Understanding Art"
 * Under the Skin (and Art House films)
 * Snowpiercer
 * Blade Runner
 * The Wolf of Wall Street
 * The Death of Socrates (painting)
 * Cezanne (paintings)
 * In the Mood for Love
 * Leda and the Swan (Yeats)
 * A Serious Man
 * The Treachery of Images


 * Cringe Comedy: Analysed and praised in "The Office: Embrace The Cringe", about the UK series.
 * So Okay It's Average: Discussed in "The Epidemic of Passable Movies", about the tendency of modern blockbusters to be very average.