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Endless Night: Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche

  • September 15, 2022

The city of Visconti’s film is a palimpsest in which postwar modernity (nightclubs, movie theatres, beatniks, and loose women) is superimposed on the ruins of the city’s gothic past. Rather[…]

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Activist & Political · African American · Essays · Franchises & Series · Race · SF & Fantasy · SF/Fantasy · Societal Trends

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Star Trek: Voyager – “Tuvix” and the Warped Humanities

  • September 8, 2022

If Deep Space 9 demonstrates how the casting of African American commanders in chief – and their election – may constitute or create a backlash disguised as “progress,” it has[…]

Saw

Franchises & Series · Horror · Men & Masculinity

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Saw and the Danger of Not Talking about Masculinity

  • September 3, 2022

We see how Jigsaw can fail, again and again, to help anyone and still blame it on them. We see how people can live through how little his traps teach[…]

Nudo Mixteco

Drama · Indigenous · LGBT & Queer · Migration

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Untying the Knot: Ángeles Cruz’s Nudo Mixteco (2021)

  • August 29, 2022

In Nudo Mixteco, characters are torn apart and brought together by the combined concerns of labor and trauma: markets are globalized, while individuals evince a panoply of erotic interests, and[…]

Buffalo Bill

Comedy · Historical & Epic · Native Americans · Revisionism · Westerns

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Robert Altman’s Wild West Show: On Buffalo Bill and the Indians

  • August 25, 2022

Buffalo Bill and the Indians joins a select group of films whose popular failure nonetheless represented an aesthetic success: Patty Hearst (1987) and The King of Comedy (1983), come to[…]

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Directors · Drama · Essays · Writers & Critics

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He’s Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman’s Breakup Letter to an Entire Age

  • August 19, 2022

Where Reid spends pages and pages absentmindedly ruminating on the many very painful, and very human, distinctions between Self and Other before losing himself in a tonal mess of relationship[…]

Exploitation & Erotica · Impresarios & Moguls

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Mom and Dad: The Most Successful Sex-Hygiene Exploitation Flick Ever

  • August 15, 2022

Mom and Dad is likely the most successful exploitation movie ever, and it still offers a lesson in the facts of, well, not life but canny American entrepreneurialism, that is,[…]

Indies · Romance

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In Full Bloom: Days of Daisy (2022)

  • August 11, 2022

Plot lines about women wanting babies are as old as time, and can easily degenerate into sexist tropes. Daisy’s desire to have a kid doesn’t define her. Instead, over the[…]

Europe 51

Drama · Religion & Spirituality · Writers & Critics

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Two Perspectives on Sainthood in 1951: Roberto Rossellini’s Europe ’51 and Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair

  • August 6, 2022

Graham Greene could be a very political writer (nowhere more than in The Quiet American, which was his next major work after The End of the Affair), but Christianity has[…]

Celebrity Culture · Counterculture · Music & Musicals · Production History · Societal Trends · Youth

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How the Monkees Birthed New Hollywood

  • August 1, 2022

A rewatch benumbed to this flash and flare reveals the stark morbidity of Head. Throughout the movie the Monkees are assaulted, hunted, and caged. Words fail, fists fail. The film[…]

Michael Kahlert

Animation · Experimental & Underground · Horror · Splatter & Gore

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Splatter in (Stop) Motion: The Gory Animations of Michael Kahlert

  • July 27, 2022

There is no question of suspending our disbelief watching Kahlert’s films, but there does emerge a bizarre unease in the inescapable doom of his scenarios. Unburdened by the need to[…]

Jaws

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The Jaws of War: How Quint Decodes Masculinity in the Films of Spielberg

  • July 23, 2022

If the sum of Spielberg’s work is about how men live in the world, Jaws is his most particular point on the subject, a film centered with almost fantastical totality[…]

Citizen Spielberg

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Book Review: Lester D. Friedman, Citizen Spielberg, 2nd ed.

  • July 20, 2022

Lester D. Friedman. Citizen Spielberg. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. $24.95. Calling him “our foremost practitioner of reel American history,” Friedman draws our attention to Spielberg’s determination[…]

Batman

Franchises & Series · Philosophy · SF & Fantasy · Societal Trends

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The Batman, the Grand Appeaser: Repressive Desublimation, Foucault, and False Hope

  • July 16, 2022

The Batman (2022) fulfills complex, necessary roles in society. The intricate power relations of the film, as a part of mass media, are directly related to those in the spectacle[…]

Disney Pixar

#MeToo · Animation · Animators · News · Production History · Societal Trends

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After Lasseter: How Pixar Was Transformed through Disney, Covid, and Management Shakeup

  • July 11, 2022

Docter and Lasseter were part of the Pixar Braintrust, a group of aging white men that held creative control of Pixar’s productions. The original members – Lasseter, Docter, Andrew Stanton[…]

Tony Stark

Franchises & Series · Gender · Men & Masculinity · SF & Fantasy

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Toxic Masculinity? There’s More to Tony Stark

  • July 6, 2022

Further analysis of Tony Stark indicates the character exemplifies more than toxic masculinity. Stark’s various actions and roles throughout his nine-film arc can be interpreted as exemplifying gender nonconformity too,[…]

Tribeca

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Dispatch from Tribeca #2 (2022): Stranger at the Gate and An Act of Worship

  • July 1, 2022

Stranger at the Gate is sharp, and benefits from a tense and credible narrative. It’s constructed like a bomb – a heavy orb with a lit fuse, carefully and reassuringly[…]

eco-horror

Drama · Eco · Eco-horror · Horror

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Don’t Go Near the Water: Revisiting Four ’70s Eco-Horror Films

  • June 26, 2022

I’ve detailed each film to convey the strange and strict extent to which they each cohere to one base fear: reproductive control. The only hope for human survival in Phase[…]

Brainstorm

Myth and Archetype · SF & Fantasy

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Touched by an Angel (of Death): Douglas Trumbull’s Brainstorm and the Visionary Ideal

  • June 21, 2022

“Look at the stars,” the genius of Trumbull’s movie finally seems to be saying, but also know the stars within. * * * Often, it’s the throwaway scenes that click.[…]

Mr. Freedom

Activist & Political · Comedy · Counterculture · Experimental & Underground

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Laughing at Ourselves: On William Klein’s Mr. Freedom (1969)

  • June 16, 2022

This is an excerpt from the introduction to the author’s new book on Mr. Freedom (https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800856943/). * * * The film calls into question both the American international and domestic[…]

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