Kevin L. Ferguson, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

a Kevin L. Ferguson, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Kevin L. Ferguson

Kevin L. Ferguson is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University. He recently completed his dissertation, Engaging the Eighties: Ethics, Objects, Periods, which examines feminist and other reactions to the success story of postmodernism in that decade. He is currently working on how cinematic and literary representations of space work to structure memory and gender.

Essays · Historical & Epic · Music & Musicals

On the Incomprehensibility of Timely Films Past Their Time: Or, A Signing Fool Watches The Singing Fool

July 31, 2009

“Not frustration of a desire of the subject, but frustration by an object in which his desire is alienated and which the more it is elaborated, the more profound the alienation from his jouissance becomes for the subject.”

Essays

Covering the Cinema: On Wallpaper in Some Films

October 31, 2007

What first drew me to the back of the frame, to the thin membrane standing between setting and set? I think it must have been Jacques Demy’s Les Parapluies de[…]

Author: Kevin L. Ferguson

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