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..., but there are other kinds of wounds that require some attention, even if it means “opening them up,” so to speak. One is a question of the political economy of the woman’s flm company, the other a mat- ter of a great heaving archival emotion: an inconsolable sadness over the decomposition of so many silent-era...

... if only of childhood heroes and role models, though never without a twinge of irony. More so, the references to Yiddish flm and theater are shot through with nostalgia so multivalent that I will spend much of the latter part of this article unpacking them. Yet however ftting our nostalgia...

... of the flm the triad of man-woman-child is broken and a thing of the past, reduced to a photograph that has become a cipher for Theo’s melancholic rumination. The flm’s basic premise is that women across the globe have become infertile, for reasons that science cannot explain.1...

..., sexuality, ethnicity, and class as worked through processes of making homes in the context of migration? What possibilities are there for flms producing a spectator who is addressed as knowing about and taking seriously women’s competencies in the work of reproduction? My interest is not so much...

... racial, signifer — is also at work in the independently produced flm Suture by flm­makers Scott McGehee and David Siegel (US, 1993).40 The flm’s plot revolves around two lookalike, estranged half brothers who reconnect at their father’s funeral. One, the powerful and wealthy Vincent (Michael...

.... Price had been a flm, television, stage, and radio personality for decades, but by the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I frst dis- covered him, he seemed to be everywhere. I loved him as the star of numerous B – horror movies made by American International Pictures, but I probably saw him more...

... Obscura Published by Duke University Press 93 94  •  Camera Obscura or ethnic descent. During the 1980s and 1990s these flm scripts often centered on male protagonists whose circumstances dis- played close parallels to their authors in foregrounding discrimi- nation and exploitation...

.... The more unlikely the genre, the deeper the subversion. Notes 1. Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen 16, no. 3 (1975): 6 – 18. Elena Gorfnkel is assistant professor of art history and flm studies at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Her writing has...

... Bohnenkamp, and Dan Morgan for carefully reading my various drafts with most helpful suggestions. This essay is in memory of Wang Wei (Xiaochun) (1975–2005), a Beijing cinephile and genuine flm critic. 1. Yingxi zazhi , no. 1 (1921). The film titles listed here are the Chinese distribution...

...- ern University’s radio/TV/flm program, I had occasion to craft a history of the Society for Cinema Studies (SCS), then in its twenty-fifth year. A primary motivation in taking up the project was my interest in how arts institutions like film festivals, jour- nals, and nonprofit cultural...

.../. 11. Jenny Lantz, Kvalitet, FLM Kulturtidskrif om film, 15 March 2009, flm.nu/2009/03/kvalitet- 2/; Maria Jansson, The Quality of Gender Equality: Gender Quotas and Swedish Film Governance, International Journal of Cultural Policy 25, no. 2 (2019): 225. 12. Garry Maddox, Anna Serner: The Woman...

...- taneously an’ object of metacritical meditation, the source for a dispersion of self (as in a team-written essay - collected in Aumont and Leutrat, eds., Theone du fLm - where no individual voice is citable) and a dispersion of the a priori authority of the collective voice. On the one hand, as I’ve...

... The guidance nursery at Arnold Gesell’s Yale Psycho-Clinic featured an “observational alcove” from which parents and clinicians could watch—and flm—the behaviors of children. developmental studies. Although intended for a popular audience of educated mothers, the book is compendious, spanning three...

... LeBlanc is completing his PhD in English at the University of California, Riverside. He is currently working on his dissertation exploring representations of the street as an urban space of masculine revolt in twentieth-century American literature and flm. Richard (Ed Harris) gazes at Clarissa...