START HERE | INTRODUCTION | THE PLOT | THE FILMMAKERS
SHOT BY SHOT | CINEMATOGRAPHY | EDITING | MUSIC | NEW YORK | THE HERO'S JOURNEY
HORROR | GENDER | RELIGION | POLITICS
CONCLUSIONS: THE GHOSTBUSTERS GENERATION

NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY CAMPAIGN (update: we did it!)

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Press
"There Have Been a Lot of Wild Stories in the Media"

Does anybody want to interview me? I'm an eyewitness. I was up there.

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NPR
Proton Charging — "What might be the definitive analysis of Ghostbusters… an excellent thought provoker on something we may take for granted in many ways."
Film School Rejects — "A fine thinker named Adam Bertocci, whose long-form essays we’ve linked to in the past, is Overthinking Ghostbusters. A lot."
Caitlin Moran — "No-one has ever thought more about Ghostbusters than this man… amazing."
Sara Benincasa — "I will read this forever."
Charlie Jane Anders, io9 — "A great in-depth look at every aspect of Ghostbusters."
Word and Film — "Amazing."
Next Projection — "Exquisite, exhaustive… persuasive."
Stephen Granade, LOLTrek — "A great critical essay on Ghostbusters, one of the best comedies of the 1980s."
Chris Oatley, Disney character designer — "Any child of the 80s will love it. It's just so well-written, insightful and awesome."
Commentarama Films — "One of the best analyses of a movie I've ever read."
CouchTarts — "A super serious article breaking down why Ghostbusters is one of the best movies of all time… and when I say super serious I mean seriously awesome."
Adam Christopher, New York Times bestselling author — "Seriously, wow."
TheReelist - "This person needs a day job."

Books that have mentioned Overthinking Ghostbusters include:
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Anymore), Hadley Freeman, Simon & Schuster, 2016. — "Sweet."
The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape, edited by Darryl Caterine and John W. Morehead, Routledge, 2019. Essay by Matthew N. Anderson and Collin L. Brown.

Press, awards and honors for Adam Bertocci's other projects

START HERE | INTRODUCTION | THE PLOT | THE FILMMAKERS
SHOT BY SHOT | CINEMATOGRAPHY | EDITING | MUSIC | NEW YORK | THE HERO'S JOURNEY
HORROR | GENDER | RELIGION | POLITICS
CONCLUSIONS: THE GHOSTBUSTERS GENERATION

NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY CAMPAIGN (update: we did it!)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR | PRESS | CONTACT
AUTHOR WEB SITE | AUTHOR FACEBOOK | AUTHOR TWITTER


BIBLIOGRAPHY (will open in separate window)

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