...Ewan Kirkland The recent generation of My Little Pony has received popular and academic attention due to its visible following of young male enthusiasts. This article explores this so-called Brony phenomenon in terms of gender and age, cult spectator practices, fandom, masculinities, and the kinds...

... 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...

... that Varda began her directorial career with little knowledge of cinema (stories Varda herself echoed). This article excavates little-known 1950s photographic studies from her archives to show how, in her early cinematic career, she utilized her training as a photographer to conceive her early films...

...Belinda Smaill British documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto has been producing work for three decades. Her films have circulated widely and garnered significant critical acclaim. Despite her prominence in the industry, Longinotto's films have attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. Her...

.... This article examines Temple's pedophilic persona, concentrating on several plantation films she made with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson between 1935 and 1936, including The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel , and Dimples . By analyzing the complex discourses of pedophilia and miscegenation that coalesce...

... liminal. Through close readings of The Seven Year Itch, Blue Velvet, Three Little Pigs , and The Empire Strikes Back , I track the range of meaning found in cinematic breathing, from the figurative presence of erotic breath in pornography to the literal associations of air and environment in animation...

...Cynthia Chris In 1916, a celebrated artists' model named Audrey Munson appeared in her second film, Purity . Munson's film career and the film itself are little known. This essay shows that this particular film played a role, heretofore unacknowledged, in the development of National Board of Review...

...Usha Iyer Though popular Hindi cinema is frequently identified by its song-and-dance sequences, little has been written specifically about film dance. This article analyzes film dance and female stardom in Hindi films of the late 1980s and 1990s through an examination of the star text of Madhuri...

... that secures its citizenry—are profoundly interlinked public archives in which to read what here is called “ethical whiteness,” its relationship to the death drive, and the gendered currency of both. Using the figure of the little brown girl that sits at the center of Eye in the Sky , the fetish object central...

... the swamps of Orinoco River in Venezuela, filmmaker Strand focuses her attention on the interactions between the Spanish Franciscan missionaries who came to the site in 1945 and the Warao who had little to no interaction with the outside world before the missionaries’ appearance. The film shows the competing...

... fandom prominently gured. Men played a central role in the publicity for these girl stars because men’s love for little girls was imagined to be socially productive rather than perverse; men’s child loving signaled their willingness to indulge in sentimental pleasures rather than sexual ones...

..., the actress known as “Our Little Mary” quickly cemented her popularity through numerous films that coincided with the Hollywood film industry’s shift to using the actor as a personality for drawing audiences to the box office.1 Pickford was promoted as “America’s Sweetheart,” “The World’s Sweetheart...

.... Title: DARK Title: DARK CHEMISTRY (Shots offreeway at night. Music and street noises) Narrator (male): The monsters go home, with as little de...

... , associative argument, presented in a roundabout way, interspersed with little stories that are digressive and still ironically (or strangely) illustrative. One is often seduced into following his train of thought, rather than an 66argument’ ’ in a logical sense. Aside from...

... into several chapters or trips (ten). The estimated budget was 10,000Canadian dollars for each chapter, to be shared between the Conservatoire and Sonimage, the film company I’m involved in. On each trip, I brought along a little of my history and resubmerged myself in it, at the rate of two...

... traditional patriarchal benefit (which includes the “surplus value” of a wife/mother). Dustin Hoffman’s Ted Kramer is (if I may pun) a “little big man” hardly taller than his son: a sign of father- hood just barely intelligible to patriarchal law and hardly able to represent it. Any real rage...

... and nymphs, Rhine maid- ens, the legends of Mdusine, Undine, the Lorelei and the Little Mer- maid, to name just a few. Splash’s Madison (Darryl Hannah), a cer- tifiable mermaid, and Children of a Lesser God’s Sarah (Marlee Matlin), not a mermaid, but a deaf woman who is most truly “herself” when...

... know that he sought it elsewhere, and it had little to do with mysticism. He plays around with religious forms and rituals, using them as a kind of portable cloak for ironically covering over those affects that are a little too violent, or “implicating,” as a kind of reservoir of signifiers...