... the action in these films appears to develop in a political vacuum, the trilogy reads like a fairy tale and, more specifically, like a rereading of “Little Red Riding Hood” from a feminist perspective. At the same time, however, hints that La Ciénaga is set in the late 1970s, La niña santa in the 1980s...

...Figure 1. Joan Allen as Elena Hood, caught shoplifting in her federal eagle cardigan. The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee, US, 1997) ...

...Moon Charania This article looks at two controversial war films— Eye in the Sky (dir. Gavin Hood, UK/South Africa, 2015) and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (dir. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, US, 2016)—both of which feature white female protagonists as conflicted but central participants in the racialized...

... but rather has been spatially dislocated to the peripheries, as the modern site of production returns to inflict pain only on those unaware of its existence. And perhaps more radical still, two independent films, Vampz (dir. Steve Lustgarten, US, 2004) and Hood of the Living Dead (dir. Eduardo and Jose...

...Grant Farred Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton, 1991) No Way out of the Menaced Society: Loyalty within the Boundedness of Race Grant Farred Where there is an actual arc of rising violence...

... in the pale, filtered light of an abandoned building, his hands bound behind him, a misshapen black hood covering all but his mouth, telling his story to a man who no longer stands beside him. The conjunction of this picture and story, as well as the parable's privileged status raises a number...

... with similar filmic material and share a lower- budget position in the industry. Massood’s emphasis on the con- versation in and among American hood films allows her to make specific claims about the nature of Menace’s commentary and the ways...

..., by ever differing angles on the same subject (the hooded man on the box, the naked prisoners with women’s panties, the human pyramid). New subjects of torture, and new forms of sexual humiliation, mix with images of absolute banality: bored, enlisted men and women horsing around like the kids...

...- spective. Generic expectations determine that Robin Hood cannot suddenly shift camps, but nothing holds the fan irrevocably to the types of subject positioning proposed by the text. Constance Penley finds a somewhat similar multiplicity of identifi- cation within the homo-erotic (or “slash...

..., and the Color Line. No. 86: pp. 1 – 33 Dan Reyes, see Iveta Jusová and Dan Reyes Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez Little Red Riding Hood Meets Freud in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy. No. 87: pp. 93 – 115 Belinda Smaill The Male Sojourner, the Female Director, and Popular European Cinema...

... the patriarchal need to repress the mother. However, Kaplan never explains why mother- hood wodd be threatening except inasmuch as it is so constructed in patriarchy (or because of a “basic awe’’ which we would characterize as essentialist). The result of this circular...

... includes other persons in bonds, whose names are not given and whose faces remain unseen. They too enter this succession as Steyerl unexpectedly inserts found images of warfare and prison torture and, most notably perhaps, the infamous picture of the hooded man in Abu Ghraib in the monitor frames...

...- tive: it challenges the normative discourses that sanctify mother- hood and romanticize the notion of authentic family history. The film shows how traditional motherhood restricts many women’s options of how to be in the world. Black women arguably face heightened scrutiny because they have...

... to government-subsidized estate housing. On the other hand, feminist social scientists challenged these negative repre- sentations, arguing that demographic shifts in single mother- hood had dramatically increased the number of people resistant to being constructed by the government and the media...

... that they are barely individuated, existing merely as a set of "neighbor- hood" types: the jock, the prankster, and the preppy prude. Incontrast, aside from their common working-class origins, the haunters or fear- provoking figures vary in appearance from film to film, markedly distinguished by props ranging from...

... open to the light and a long passage all down the cave. Here they have been from child- hood, chained by the leg and also by the neck, so that they cannot move and can only see what is in front of them, because the chains will not let them turn their heads. At some distance higher up is the light...

... describes bunraku as having three discontinuous "writings": the vocal gesture of the narrator, the effected gesture of the puppet-dolls, and the effective gesture of the kuroku, black-hooded men who manipulate the puppets onstage, three to a doll. For Barthes "emotion no longer...

... in this production and circulation of definitions of (bourgeois) motherhood. Thus, while redefining psychic relations between mother and child in the manner Pollock suggests, I would argue that Cassatt's support of idealizing discourses on mother• hood equally permitted her...