Drama · Essays · Uncategorized
An Atheist’s Guide to Wise Blood: The Doctrine of the Auto-Redemptionist
“It’s almost as if The Misfit himself were behind the camera.”
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Essays · Film Technology & History · Music & Musicals
Art Thou Troubled? Musicals May Calm Thee
But don’t forget DVD opera
Here Come the Bromides: Living in the Era of the Bromantic Comedy
“Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.” — Vladimir Nabokov
Ghidorah Attacks! Modern Narrative’s Three-Headed Monster
“The concept of pure art pure poetry, pure painting, and so on is not entirely without meaning; but it refers to an aesthetic reality as difficult to define as it is to combat. In any case, even if a certain mixing of the arts remains possible, like the mixing of genres, it does not necessarily follow that they are all fortunate mixtures. There are fruitful cross-breedings which add to the qualities derived from the parents; there are attractive but barren hybrids and there are likewise hideous combinations that bring forth nothing but chimeras.”
The Complete A of Altruism: In Which the Selfish Gene Explains Everything
Except whether to laugh or cry
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica
Between Nudist Morality and Freudian Realism! Denuding Fleshly Hypocrisies, Cinematic and Otherwise
“Nude on the Moon’s exploitation is as innocent as the Good Christo-Nudist’s reclaiming of a pre-figleafed (albeit non-recreational) Eden.”
Essays · LGBT & Queer · Photo Essays
Retro Virus: Did AIDS Perform Nensha?
“Be aware: there are forces at work here of which we have no knowledge.”
Hotels and Homelands: After Ken and Rosa
Neither will be the same
Composers · Essays · Music & Musicals
Finding Unlikely Ideology in Prokofiev: Polyphonic and Anti-Authoritarian Gestures in The Gambler
“Alexei must be condemned to the pointless, loveless, and finally false freedom of a spinning limbo, as unfinished and unfinishable as the best Bakhtinian polyphony.”
Activist & Political · Essays · Silents
Metropolis, Ezra Pound, Mammon: And the Law of Too-Large Numbers
“The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.”
Lost Watches and Lost Souls: From New Jersey to Old Istanbul
Fresh Starts Don’t Come Easy
The Misery Business: In Which Your Agent Will Be Lauren Bacall
And your ankles will still bebroken
Psycho: Queering Hitchcock’s Classic
We have met the cross-dressing closeted maniac, and he is us
To Slap a Dame: Sexual Violence in the Age of Reason
“Skip is the only one that enacts incest with one hand and bats away communists like flies from a dung pile with the other.”
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres
Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish
“Nobody wants to pay to becastrated anymore.”
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas: How Barton Fink Can Set You Free
“All the world’s a hell ten feet square”
A Real Director’s Cut: Cassavetes Edits Himself in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
It is the subjective fever dreamof a psyche carving fantasy out of reality as he goes.”
Directors · Essays · Writers & Critics
Counter Clockwise: Or Lay Quiet Awhile with Ed and Id Molotov
Re-examining the Crossed Wires in Kubrick’s and Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange
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