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...), and 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. Chris Dumas is the author of Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political...

...- 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 syntax, the grammar...

... scientific opinion that Mars was a dying planet which had exhausted its resources as it evolved inexorably toward “deserti- fi~ationFor a super-intelligent race, “intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, n31 capable of building thousands of miles of canals to compensate for an irrevocable loss...

...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...

..., 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 Europe, but it taps cultural traditions 140 like opera and the cornmedia dell’arte hardly known...

... 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, sharing his findings in two widely popular books, Mars and Its Canals (1906) and Mars as an Abode of Life ( 1908).18As Howard Blum notes...

... 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 both genre and gender cues. Play- ing with identity categories...

... 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...

... 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. You...

... more tears over the fate of Christa McAuliffe.” It is not certain, though, that a reader will shed the anticipated tears over McAuliffe’s brave mar- tyrdom to American education and space exploration or rather, and more likely, over discovering that McAuliffe...

... of such fac- tors as genre competition, trends in movie attendance, and mar- ket saturation but also because of the film’s potential relationship to other cultural events.5 Success depends not only on how the film is constructed but also on how the film relates to its cultural moment. Both the moral panic...

... Bacall), here the two men are held in a single balanced frame. They walk shoulder to shoulder, bathed in the comradeship of similar over- coats and a professional idiom that requires no messy wordplay or flirtation. Similarly — though he turns out to be a villain — Eddie Mars ( John Ridgely...