... and dispersed in ambivalent representations and interpretations across the mediascape. Due to its combinatory nature and gendered valences, we call this concept the transmediated grotesque . We build this discussion around three reality celebrity case studies: Kate Gosselin, star of TLC's Jon and Kate Plus 8...

...Jon Heggestad Abstract The 1994 film Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the world's first pregnant man, has been the subject of much scholarly debate since its initial release. Specifically, feminist critiques have both called attention to the film's androcentric...

... 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...

... sexually threatening. I distinctly remem- 162  •  Camera Obscura ber having a comically awkward discussion with my father after watching your sex scene with Jon Voight in Coming Home (dir. Hal Ashby, US, 1978). My dad tried to explain (unsuccessfully) why Sally would cry after a great...

.... Lewis, Jon. Hollywood v. Hardcore: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry. New York: New York University Press, 2000. Limon, John. Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or Abjection in America. Durham...

... row) Susan Ohmer, Susan White, Jon Lewis; (back row) Krin Gabbard, Paula Massood, and Stephen Prince. A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E A Brief History of the Ms in SCMS Ramona Curry In the mid-1980s, as a first-year graduate student in Northwest...

... of Minnesota Press, 2000. Lewis, Jon. Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry. New York: New York University Press, 2000. Liu, Catherine. Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000...

..., and Modernity: A Visual Economy ofthe Andean Image World by Deborah Poole. Princeton University Press, 1997. $69.50. Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood by Jon Lewis. Duke University Press, 1995. $23.95. Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996 ...

.... Lévy, Pierre. Cyberculture. Trans. Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 218 Books Received • 219 Lewis, Jon. The End of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties. New York: New York University...

... from Postmodern Life. Trans. Jon Beasley-Murray. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Senie, Harriet F. The “Tilted Arc” Controversy: Dangerous Precedent? Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Singer, Beverly R. Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native...

... by the American Imaginary into the domestic (melo)drama. This article maps out the "frontier-within" by examining the tre• mendously popular film Fried Green Tomatoes (dir. Jon Avnet, 1991) and Fannie Flagg's novel from which the film was adapted, Fried Green Tomatoes...

... could be used and displayed at the People's Flag Show (US, 1970). The event culminated in the arrest of the event's organizers, Jon Hendricks, Jean Toche, and Faith Ringgold, later dubbed “The Judson Three.” While the People's Flag Show focused on the fundamental question of artistic license (what...

..., the conflict centers on Marty s journey toward professional and personal fulfillment. The industry story fits neatly with these male-centered dramas: Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, and Rod Ser- ling all come to television in search of creative and professional autonomy, the opportunity, as Jon Kraszewski explains...

..., passive, and emotionless accomplice (3 – 7). In a more derogatory way, many critics liken the film to George Lucas’s American Graffiti (US, 1973) or, to a lesser extent, Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (US, 1971). For example, in his work on teen film, Jon Lewis couples...

... one of the main tropes of both Russian and Western teen films: the expectation that the troubled teen will eventually enter the stable world of adulthood. As Jon Lewis observes, if in many teen films the teenagers “focus on a single concern: the breakdown of traditional forms of author- ity...

... film O l d  J o y  a number of authorial markers: a setting near Portland, source material in a story by coscreenwriter  Jon Raymond, a car, a dog (the filmmaker’s hound Lucy), and an itinerant protagonist. O l d  J o y is about two male friends who have drifted apart and struggle...

... off  You: Attentional Adhesion to Mates and Rivals.”1 The paper’s first author was the Florida State University psychology profes- sor Jon Maner, who has made something of a subspeciality out of what he calls “sexually selective cognition” — that is, the ways in which, over evolutionary time...

... For instance, in The Living End, the HIV- positive and economically disenfranchised couple s road adventure ini- tiates with a rage against the establishment: I think this is part of a neo- Nazi Republican definitive solution, Luke (Mike Dytri) declares to Jon (Craig Gilmore) at the breakfast table, a germ...