... Invaders from Mars (dir. William Cameron Menzies, US) — with an eye toward the Oedipal issues that the shared structure helps to express. In conclusion, the use of psychoanalysis as a scholarly tool is debated. Figure . Bad Father. Invaders from Mars (dir. William Cameron Menzies, US, On Film...

... fashion their own gram- mars, their own tempos. Straub explains this process as follows: We make people read the texts. We are all sitting around a table, and then at a certain moment we say, “Look that was interesting, when you breathed at that point. It is interesting for the phrase, the...

...Robert Miklitsch Copyright © 1993 by Indiana University Press 1993 Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990) Total Recall: Production, Revolution, Simulation-Alienation Effect Robert Miklitsch The men of Earth came to Mars. They came because...

... include Virtual Realities and their Discontents (Johns Hop- kins UP, 1996) and Dying Planet: Mars and the Anxieties of Ecology from the Canals to Terraformation (Duke, forthcoming). Molly Anne Rothenberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at...

... Obscura rower notion of sexuality and subjectivity. Lest I be accused of only mentioning premium programming, one final example is Veronica Mars (UPN/CW, 2003 – present), a mystery program also including serial elements that focuses on the detective work of a teen “girl dick,” thereby mixing...

... standing in for a homogenized, national body politic. Sexual difference, then, is asymmetrical, with the double load of narrative and spectacle weighing on the side of the male protagonist. Not only does Italian cinema belong to a culture historically mar- ginalized in relation to the rest of...

... an analysis of the organization and naturalization of looks in the r936 version of The Man who Knew Too Much, and Bob Bur- goyne through an analysis of overture and closure in zoo I. It could be said, though, that in general the conference was marred by a lack...

... culture, Miriam Hansen’s analyses of early silent cinema and her essay on Valentino’s films, Patrice Petro’s study of female spectatorship in Wei- mar Germany and Heide Schliipmann’s readings of pre-war German mass cultural criticism. To the preceding, I should also add the general influence of...

... delighted by this ethno- graphic exposition at the Champs de Mars. Finally you can study the movements of African people in the flesh-people you and other anthropologists catalog as “savages”-instead of getting mere descrip- tions of their movements from written accounts, photography, and art...

... were reported in the western United States. In 1900 psychologist Theodore Flournoy published an account of French medium Hiline Smith’s 1890 visit to Mars.” Around the same time, Percival Lowell built an observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona so he could study the canal system on Mars...

... less monolithic, more capable of being read in multivalent ways (e.g., The Eyes of Laura Mars). Retrospectively, what I sense that I have not always confronted is my own fascination with these works. Rather than seek to “redeem” my preoccupation with them, I have tended...