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..., industrial, and transnational levels. In the Twilight series, Pattinson's highly flexible star image appeals to audiences with different kinds of sexual or romantic desires, for if we look carefully at the way Edward Cullen is represented, and how Pattinson is marketed in the media, he is portrayed as both...

...Melissa Phruksachart This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly...

... as more defining of who they are than their minds and bodies. Rejecting aliveness as an intrinsic human quality, Nymphomaniac and Under the Skin reconceive of their characters as bags, rocks, and projectiles—and also, meta-reflexively, as beams of light. Invoking thinkers such as Jacques Rancière, Edward...

...Edward Baron Turk Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 I Married an Angel (W. S. Van Dyke, MGM, 1942) Deriding the Voice of Jeanette MacDonald: Notes on Psychoanalysis and The American Film Musical Edward Baron Turk I...

...Edward R. O'Neill Camera Obscura 2004 Edward R. O'Neill received a PhD in critical theory from the film school of the University of California, Los Angeles. He has held a fellowship in social thought at UCLA and a Mellon Fellowship in media, society, and technology at Bryn Mawr College...

...Edward R. O'Neill Camera Obscura 2007 Edward R. O'Neill earned a BA from Yale and a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Film School. He has held a fellowship in social thought at UCLA and a Mellon Fellowship at Bryn Mawr College. He has published widely on queer...

...Edward Baron Turk Camera Obscura 2007 Edward Baron Turk is the John E. Burchard Professor of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the graduate program in comparative media studies. His books include Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné...

...Edward Avila Abstract “Castle & Crook” argues that the documentary films Maquilapolis ( City of Factories ) (dir. Vicky Funari, Sergio De La Torre, Mexico/US, 2006) and Señorita Extraviada ( Missing Young Woman ) (dir. Lourdes Portillo, Mexico/US, 2001) offer critical insights...

...: in Wood’s Plan Nine from Outer Space (US, 1958), the saucers wobble precariously, and in one particularly inept shot, the burning ship reveals itself to be several inches wide. It’s very hard to miniaturize either fire or water. Special effects have come a long way since Edward D. Wood Jr., but despite...

... for British com- mercial television. In its initial form, Upstairs, Downstairs was to focus on the escapades of two young, female domestic servants in an Edward- ian upper-class home and was to center its narratives on the “down- stairs” point of view. Upon selling the idea to London Weekend...

...) — and her mid-career sex comedies 10 (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1979), S.O.B. (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1981), and Victor/Victoria (dir. Blake Edwards, UK/US, 1982) to her recent repopularization in ado- lescent coming-of-age films such as The Princess Diaries (dir. Garry Marshall, US, 2001...

... Movement and Film Study in France by Edward Lowry. UMI Research Press, Studies in Cinema Series. Ann Arbor, 1985. $39.95. The Political Language of Film and the Avant-Garde by Dana B. Polan. UMI Research Press, Studies in Cinema Series. Ann Arbor, 1985. $39.95. Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films...

... past actions” and is informed by “first-personal conceptions of how they might have acted otherwise.” 41 Agent-regret is thus focused on the individual and makes clear the relationship between choice, agency, and regret—as Lawrence Sanna and Edward Chang clarify, “without choice there is no regret...

... in Critical Social Theory by Edward W. Soja. Verso/Routledge, 1989. $16.95. Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism by Raymond Williams, edited by Robin Gable with an introduction by Robin Blackburn. Verso/ Routledge, 1989. $16.95. The Politics of Modernism: Against the New...

..., and biblical scholar; he uses the G’Tach — the ten curses visited on Egypt — to murder the surgical team operating on his wife when she died. In Theater of Blood, Price is Edward Lionheart, a Shake- spearean actor who murders his critics in various gory ways derived from the bard’s repertoire...

... and controlled. Richard Edwards’s Contested Terrain further elucidates the manner in which management extended the effects of these social relations through a simultaneously depersonalized and intensified technology of control, first automating it on the assembly line (the foreman is replaced...

... are the focal point for Edward R. O’Neill’s exploration of the cultural work of camp, particularly in the form of larger-than-life mother and aunt figures like those associated with Angela (“I’m not a diva, but I play them”) Lansbury. Lansbury characters such as Auntie Mame and Mama Rose are “beloved...

... identifi- cation. Edward Baron Turk is Professor of French at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches in the FildMedia Studies program. His most recent book, Child of Paradise: Marcel Carne‘ and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard University...

... P, 1998. The Films of Oshima Nagisa: lmages of alapanese lconoclast by Maureen Turim. U of California P, 1998. Hollywood Diva: A Biography ofleanette MacDonald by Edward Baron Turk. U of California P, 1998. Understanding Animation by Paul Wells. Routledge...

...: Cinema, Television, Culture edited by Manuel Alvarado, Edward Buscombe, and Richard Collins. Columbia University Press, 1993. Film and Reform: ]ohn Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement by Ian Aitken. Routledge, 1992. $18.95. Everything You Always Wanted...