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...Varun Begley Camera Obscura 2007 Varun Begley teaches modern drama and cultural studies at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of a book on Harold Pinter and is currently working on a study of props and the problem of reification. The Big Sleep (dir. Howard Hawks, US...

...), philosopher Daniel Dennett (who makes a duplicate of himself in his own philosophical story “Where am 17 and especially Stephen Hawking (who recently ap- peared on “Descent I,” an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) as a holographic simulation of himself). I...

... of texts. A paper on Howard Hawks’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Lucy Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca labeled the film proto-feminist because of the presence of a feminine dis- course. This discourse was defined in terms of the film’s representa- tion of female-bonding (between the Jane Russell...

... at the center of the birth drama by repris- ing the old genre standby of the absent-minded professor who experiments on himself—so reliably amusing ever since Cary Grant dosed himself with a precursor to Viagra in Monkey Business (dir. Howard Hawks, US, 1952). Under a cheery comic veneer, Junior betrays...

... of the impossible. In Armour of God (1986) directed by Chan himself, he plays an Indiana Jones character named Asian Hawk. He is a world famous adventurer who is good at stealing archaic treasures. Some satanic monks abduct his ex-girlfriend in order to force Asian Hawk to give...

... to a "natural" art of the cinema. Cabiers instead glorified the decadent phases of Preminger, Hawks, and Hitchcock; in their own cinema they looked now to Godard. They showed themselves ready for Bertolt Brecht. Hillier takes us across the short bridge linking self-conscious• ness...

... on each of these Bravo programs have developed products and hawked them on the series. Real Housewives’ Bethenny Frankel, with her Skinnygirl brand, Flipping Out’s Jeff Lewis, with Caesarstone counters and Doheny wallpaper, and Rachel Zoe, with her cloth- ing line, purses, shoes, and hair...

.... 177 The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Styles and Mode of Production to 1960 by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson. Columbia Univer- sity Press. New York, 1985. $49.50. Howard Hawks: Storyteller by Gerald Mast. Oxford University Press. New York, 1984. $10.95. lust...

... the fetish, in many of its forms. Perhaps its most obvious debt to Howard Hawks’s The Big Sleep (US, 1946) occurs on the level of plot: here, as in its canonical antecedent, events follow each other with a logic verging on the aleatory.10 Indeed, The Big Lebowski begins to undermine narrative...

... to an attentive world and Stephen Hawking, more recently, retails his speculations on the relation between theoretical physics and "the mind of god," but who wants to hear what literary theorists and cultural studies types have to say, not only on issues of general interest but most particularly when...

... of registering simultaneous but incompatible temporal frameworks whose very simultaneity and incompatibility leave space for imagining new and possibly unlikely futures. 40 Or as physicist Stephen Hawking noted during the Q&A portion of a lecture that took place shortly after Zayn Malik's departure from...

... asked by detective Colin Zabel for any tips on dealing with Mare, Siobhan tells him to “lower your expectations.” 77 Yet Mare's most identifiable characteristic is that she transgressively disrupts gendered expectations and norms. Her history as a high-school basketball champion—“Miss Lady Hawk...

... further consideration. In spite of its rather wide- Vince (Ethan Hawke) taunts Jon (Robert Sean Leonard) in Tape (dir. Richard Linklater, US, 2001) Camera Obscura 64, Volume 22, Number 1 doi 10.1215/02705346-2006-022  © 2007 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 113...

... Not (dir. Howard Hawks, US, 1945), and four women stars, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich. B. on the active role of the central male protagonist within the story and the spectator’s identification with him. Here the sole footnoted reference in the article...

.... In these acts of reflection, he approaches his film archive — Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks, Ing- mar Bergman, et al. — with a worldview newly and forever altered by the gay liberation movement, second-­wave feminism, the coun- terculture, and his own coming out.4 Today film and media serve...

... hegemony like our Krupps or DuPonts; perhaps it competes with other conglomerates, hawking ordinance across the universe. Since it constantly seeks a competitive edge, the Company opts to keep its profile low while retrieving the Alien. Sacrificing safety for stealth, it elects not to send...

... famously distilled a subgenre of films that he christened the comedy of remarriage. 1 To Cavell s way of thinking, the seven Hollywood films that epitomize the subgenre It Happened One Night (dir. Frank Capra, 1934), The Awful Truth (dir. Leo McCarey, 1937), Bringing Up Baby (dir. Howard Hawks, 1938...

... in reference to such diverse directors as Alexander Dovzhenko, Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, and Howard Hawks.1 In addition to figurative descriptions of the effect of respiratory feel- ings in western films, Deleuze also explicitly connects his concept of the actionimage with breath...

... in relation to our collective anxieties, fears, and wishes (a fact that is often ignored by auteurist critics who tend to neglect issues of genre-thus, for instance, Howard Hawks’s comedies are considered unique for their inversions of the all-male world of adventure films; Pee-wee Herman...

... of the francophone black in La Chinoise, etc.) The moment one compares Godard’s use of language with that of almost any other director-say, Frangois Truffaut or Howard Hawks-one notices how much wider is the range of accents (socio- political markers) and language uses (mode of linguistic action...