... 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...

... (or humans), or animals pretending to be humans (or machines), but as ani- mals pretending to be other animals in such a way that humans and machines are implicated. Framing this film about how a pig learns to be sheepdog (or “sheep-pig the film’s broad range of barnyard animalacra often overtly...

... for monsters in the closet. Little Pigs.” Samuel’s demands for reassurance continue after she reads the conclusion (“And that was the end of the Big Bad Wolf”) when he asks her, “Did they really kill the wolf, Mom and she wea- rily responds, “I’m sure...

... limits-physical and ideological-in a deeply troubling perfor- mance of carnival laughter. She is the embodiment of the pig which Peter Stallybrass and Allon White describe as a pervasive figure for the carnivalesque. The pig, they contend, is a threatening figure, a hybrid...

... entertainment, making education sec- ondary to the amusement that children need on Saturdays. . . . [It] included Pigs is Pigs, featuring John Bunny, Bostock’s wild animals and a fine production of Alice in Wonderland. It seemed as if it would be a morning of rare pleasure...

... and pigs, a correlation that speaks to sexualized ideas about the female body as flesh for consumption but also as intrinsically animal and unclean, constantly threatening to collapse into the sordid. As Adora says to Camille after she returns from a drunken night: “You smell ripe.” 61 The scarring...

... struggle in his quest for Truth and implicates them both in a recurring oedipal nightmare.1° Cancer Man, an operative who has been involved in the assassina- tions of Lumumba and Trujillo as well as the Bay of Pigs, not surpris- ingly, turns out to be the real assassin of JFK...

... of “tied tubes,” performed without their prior knowledge or consent. If in Puerto Rico women were the guinea pigs for contraceptive experimentation, in the US, as Angela Davis points out, women’s bodies have been the site of a historical overlapping between the movement for birth control...

... song, a hypnotic chant that repeats the phrase “agents in the king- dom of Jezebel” layered over the sound of pig snorts. Here, the rhythmic music — the melos of melodrama — transmits disgust by associating Jezebel’s material excess and sexual transgression with the dirt and shamelessness...

... between the sexes. In one episode Pee- wee throws a party “to celebrate friendship.” All the Playhouse regulars show up, dressed to the nines. They play Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and eat fifties hors d’oeuvres like pigs-in-a-blanket. Then everyone starts dancing. Among...

... looks like a pig “How did he get such a big head and more generally. A girl, drawing a portrait of herself and a friend watching television [figure four], ob- sessively enumerates the various body parts as she draws them: “Here’s my head and nose, ears, eyes, arm, okay...

... to headless, gutless, shrink-wrapped joke. 24 The film intensifies this debasing of American tradition through Wendy's satirical Thanksgiving grace: “Dear Lord, thank you . . . for letting us white people kill all the Indians and steal their tribal lands, stuff ourselves like pigs even though...

... is careful to include footage of Peter Staley referring to Helms during a famous speech as “that pig in the Senate,” the implication becomes that, if there is anything repulsive, threatening, unnatural, and scarily infectious about the postures and styles of gay and AIDS-­affected people during...

... the Soul displays both to the diegetic and the extradiegetic eye a body which is barred, by virtue of its skin pig- mentation, from representing the phallus, at least within the film’s contemporary German context. However, if that body is the privileged object of the gaze, it has the same...

... play with women and children. That’s what makes her his wife? Eighty pounds and a pig? . . . That’s what you men do. You just harvest children all over the place. Without marrying the mothers.” Ngassa’s character is marked by both anger and resolve to engage in the step-by-step process...

... supporters to the Pontiac Board of Education building, where she rolls a toy school bus car- rying two guinea pigs into the office of school superintendent Dana Whitmer.20 Outside the building, McCabe taunts Pontiac mayor Robert Jackson, yelling, “Come on, Mayor Jackson, you’re driving the bus. Come...

..., but they very quickly become the Humanity Adrift  •  81 foreground. For example, in one image, the cover for Pink Floyd’s 1977 album, Animals, showing the Battersea power station with an imagined pig-shaped balloon has become, in the future, an actually...

..., Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (New York: Free Press, 2006). 77. Gorfinkel, “Dated Sexuality,” 98. 78. Madison Young, interview with the author, 9 November 2010. 79. Caroline Farmer, “An Accelerated Life: Lydia Lunch,” Artlink 18, no. 3 (1998...

... Illusions’s and Daughters’s concerns with the politics of pig- ment, when linked to their respectively tacit and overt hints of sexu- ality between women, remind us how much lesbian cinema of the 1980s and 1990s foregrounded cross-­racial desire. This pervasive pattern inspired Ann Pellegrini to assert...

... to the mountain retreat, Garbo turned right around and came back for her new friend Mercedes: “I could not be such a pig as to enjoy all that beauty alone,” de Acosta tells us she said.24 The pair may not have spent six harmonious weeks on that island in the middle...