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...Figure 2. “She would hurt a fly.” Serial Mom (dir. John Waters, US, 1994) ...

..., to produce discontinuous and immaterial forms of life, and, in so doing, to challenge dominant notions of embodiment and wholeness. Drawing on contemporary work in disability theory as well as the writings of John Berger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Gilles Deleuze, the author offers a reading of these films...

... blight off the television. Sydney Fulbright, Fort Smith, Arkansas/ In a 1990 magazine article called "Bring Back the Juvenile Delinquent," cult cinema hero John Waters pleads, "we need a new breed of juvenile delinquent...

...Caryl Flinn Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1982). New Line Cinema Corp. The Deaths of Camp Caryl Flinn This piece was written in loving memory of Jim McLaughlin, who was supposed to have debated...

...Figure 9. Water Light/Water Needle (1966). St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York. Photograph by John Weber ...

.... As if to demon- strate the therapeutic efficacy of the couple’s isolation, we next see John smiling approvingly at Rae who floats—literally oceani- cally—on the water, surrounded by gloriously blank blue sea and sky, with no sound but lapping waves. Rae, however, does not seem to take pleasure in her activity...

...,” in Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora, ed. Henry John Drewal (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, – Bliss Cua Lim, Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique (Durham, NC: Duke University Press...

... Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 ooks Received 3 73 Feminism and Film Theory edited by Constance Penley. Routledge, 1988. $13.95. Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Tel...

... an aesthetic one. Perfect water, the industry argued, is not only clear and bacteria free, it is "Mediterranean Blue48 And as an ad for Johns-Manville filtration systems says, "Nothing makes a pool more inviting than sparkling clear water and nothing repels bathers as effectively as murky water.t Almost...

...” It’s a funny victory. You win because you’re helpless.  — Helen Lawrence, in When Tomorrow Comes (dir. John Stahl, US, 1939) Exporting National Problems This essay examines the trope of the crying male in contempo- rary Israeli fiction films as it appears, for example, near the end...

...Susan Felleman Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 Fluid Fantasies: Splash and Children of a Lesser God Susan Fellernan “Talk about beauty and the beast. . . she’s both”’ The representation of the feminine as Other has been a commonplace focus...

... an equilibrium between the space of these installations and the video- Room for St. John of the Cross (Bill Viola, 1983) tape shown was often difficult. As a result of the contrast, the installations often appeared to be there for decorative effect...

... was as an assistant to dancer Katherine Dunham, who in turn introduced her to Ethel Waters and Langston Hughes. While in California, Deren socialized with filmmaker Oskar Fisch- inger. Later, in New York, she rented an apartment from Joris Ivens and made films with Marcel Duchamp, Anaïs Nin, John Cage...

.... Ironically, she declares it is not the rayographs of Man Ray, or the photomontages of John Heartfield that exploited this principle, but photography itself: Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world, of a reality in the second degree, narrower...

... pathos often tips over into sentimentality. (Those who prefer the first season of Peewee’s Play- house to the second typically cite the latter’s increased moralism and 149 sentimentality.) John Waters has advanced this plea for acceptance by reconceiving one of camp’s most dubious...