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... in the UK, Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort (2000). Irene Gedalof is a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University, where she teaches in the equality and diversity and film studies programs. Her current research focuses on questions of home...

... heart is an established couple whose seemingly secure erotic bond is marked by deep ambivalence. This bond is stretched beyond recognition as it bends to the presence of the sexual outsider, who is first incorporated into, then ejected from, the pseudofamilial world. Though irreparably altered...

... to decipher in detail. Finally, the way in which the art of benshi is an act of radical gender-bending is examined. By performing the voices of heroes and villains, Sawato expresses and embodies masculinity that gives her a tremendous sense of catharsis and empowerment. Akiko Mizoguchi teaches visual...

.... Sometimes I forget and bend fi to pick up a pencil to turn a page to open a door the pain makes me...

... clenched, she maintains a slight forward bend in her shoulders. This awk- ward stance accentuates the billiard-table flatness of her abdomen and the thinness of her entire body. Her words will soon suggest that one of the conditions her character suffers from is anorexia nervosa: “I can’t eat...

... that “to incline is to bend, to lean down, to lower” (3). For Cavarero, “inclination bends and dispossesses the I ” (7), and she comments that “the most frequent and feared inclination, love, is an attack against the self's balance” (6). Her aims are vast as she moves against rectitude, uprightness...

... Cecil B. de Milk: in this Delacroix painting, the en- semble of cries, tears, noise of armors and horses comes to an end at these two women on the lower right, bending their backs under the shock, and later (or earlier) in the real action, one will rediscover...

... the closed- off world of the Boy and the Man. These close, intimate shots of the two reinforce their limited knowledge of their future and the nature of the world around them: they can- not, quite literally, see to the next horizon or around the next bend in the road. The panoramic scenes are the few moments...

... Holmlund 1969. Escape at last from high school regimentation, complete with weekly trips to the vice-principal’s office for dress code infractions. “Miss Holmlund! Sit down! Cross your legs!” he’d tell me. Then he’d bend down and look up my mini-skirt to see whether it was “too short...

... skin, when steel braces bend the joints straight and the exhausted identity is nailed to modem mythomania. my body actions since 1968, my drawings show the loss of communica- tion and elimination of language when the body rejects the norms of its 222 expression, when the body is depleted...

... description of exquisite masochistic excess, explosive jouissance, and the humiliating pleasure in the loss of a coher- ent ego. Flesh getting fucked in the ass. Time is bending, slow- ing, speeding. There is no now—I have seen this all before. What is this shattering? I recognize in it Gilles...

... 1969. Escape at last from high school regimentation, complete with weekly trips to the vice-principal’s office for dress code infractions. “Miss Holmlund! Sit down! Cross your legs!” he’d tell me. Then he’d bend down and look up my mini-skirt to see whether it was “too short.” No female...

... [Cheaper by the Dozen, dir. Shawn Levy, US, 2003], and global block- busters [Bend It Like Beckham, dir. Gurinder Chadha, UK, 2002 Yet the irony and self-reflexivity that characterize so much of postfeminist and postmodern culture in no way invalidate femi- nist critique. As teachers...

... framed stills of her. I pounded nails into cinder-block walls, bending some in trying, to mark the no-place that is home. 132  •  Camera Obscura Notes With thanks along the way to Mark Bogosian, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Janet R. Jakobsen, Patty White, Stacy Wolf, and Ron Mandelbaum...

... a conspicuous public life within white patriarchy and to try and live that life on your own terms. Under these conditions, “something’s got to give,” as the song goes, but the diva will make certain that, as often as pos- sible, it is tradition and convention that yield (or at least bend...

.... Looking at her fellow dancers in 1963, Schneemann wrote: “A dancer bends, ass covered taut in stretch nylon; neatly folded balls and prick, sculptural breast mounds, pussy humps” (18). To Schneemann's eyes even the Judson dancers whom she much admired appeared prudish and confined, cut off from the world...

... by Andrews in the long wake of her defining incarnation as everyone’s favorite magical nanny, the only one that managed to achieve any appreciable level of widespread public resonance and inflect the received persona was the gender-bending Victor/ Victoria: a woman (pretending...

..., fans tend to be critical of the eroticized female image.6 Instead, vidding lets women experience the pleasure and power of not being seen. Vidders relish the godlike control of the editing room, bending images to their will.7 A concomitant pleasure is that of not having to be overtly...

... visas when possible, passed as Aryans outside the ghettos, and, within the camps, worked in the underground movement of sabotage. Such necessary bending of gender roles was captured in the first Holocaust film, made by the Polish survivor Wanda Jakubowska. She filmed Ostatni etap ( The Last Stage...

... other night in recent memory. After a harrowing climb in which the stairs creak and bend under her weight, and she struggles to catch her breath, Bonnie lies down to 139 rest. Later it is discovered that she has died in her sleep. The coroner is summoned and pronounces death, and the children...