... University Press. From X Marks the Spot: Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures (Chicago: Spot Publishing, 1930); Georges Bataille, review, Documents 2 (1930): 52 – 53 Undoing the Scene of the Crime: Perspective and the Vanishing of the Spectator Domietta Torlasco Un beau film: the crime...

...Lea Jacobs REVIEW ESSAYS Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1939) The Woman's Film and the Female Spectator Lea Jacobs Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987) While there are real...

...Diane Waldman Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Film Theory and the Gendered Spectator: The Female or the Feminist Reader? Diane Waldman Like literary theory and criticism, film theory has moved from a notion of meaning immanent in the text to a concern...

... Zéro 26 (December 1985 ). Tuer , Dot . “An Interview With Kay Armatage.” Cinema Canada 145 (October 1987 ). W5. “Female Spectatorship.” The Independent Eye 10 (Winter 1989 ): 30 –31. As Canadian as Possible: The Female Spectator and the Canadian Context’ Rhona...

...Janet Bergstrom; Mary Ann Doane Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 The Female Spectator: Contexts and Directions Janet Bergstrom and Mary Ann Doane “She’s a slippery character, of this we’re all agreed...

... Woman,” Flesh , Intervention 21/22 ( 1988 ): 4 8–53. Creed , Barbara . “Pornography and Pleasure: The Female Spectator.” Australian Journal of Screen Theory 15/16 ( 1983 ): 67 –88. Creed , Barbara . “Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection,” Screen 27 , no. 2...

...Lea Jacobs Reformers and Spectators: The Film Education Movement in the Thirties Lea Jacobs Public agitation against the film industry in the thirties was accom- panied by great anxiety about the ways movies influenced specific types of spectators, most commonly children...

... that contemporary directors activate cruel celebrity culture in three interrelated ways. I begin by discussing the spectator's role, a position from which the noncelebrity takes pleasure in witnessing the celebrity's destruction. The spectator's cruel desire to see more and more of the celebrity's destruction...

.... By analyzing Joyless Street through the lens of Close Up , I demonstrate how Bryher and H.D. anticipate the development of trauma theory, which emerged in the early 1990s. Unlike traditional, often totalizing, applications of psychoanalysis (which emphasize notions of spectator desire and lack), the Close Up...

... of Life stages for black and queer of color spectators originary traumas, in particular the formative (and compounded) experiences of racial and sexual shame. This essay seeks to reconcile the dissonant emotions evoked by Imitation of Life by reading the overidentifications of subaltern spectators...

... rendered by montage or whip pans. The Snake Pit and Sorry, Wrong Number , like other films of the 1940s centered on female insanity, exploit the language of cinema in order to make spectators partake in their pathologized versions of the sensory world. This restructuring of perception by mental illness has...

... be that the film is substantially more open to the fluctuations and even deconstructions of the Oedipal relation, working through it while never, in fact, buttressing it. In noting that film texts provide (for) fantasy scenarios in which spectators are placed, however ambiguously, and through which they roam...

... the masochistic logic that structures biopolitics. Reading the masochistic behaviors of both Abramović and the performance's spectators through Gilles Deleuze's notion of the masochistic contract, this essay argues that the performance ultimately harnesses “living labor” in the service of the self-production...

... to the implementation of Hollywood's star system. This article also analyzes the ambivalent modes of representation and address journalists directed at girl spectators and how such modes evidenced the film industry's growing dependence on young female audiences, as well as the broader patriarchal anxiety over girls...

...Shweta Kishore In her films, Paromita Vohra is the trickster, the bahurupiya who entertains, unsettles, and ultimately encourages the spectator to think, reflect, and reconsider. Always penetrating in her analysis, Vohra is interested in the ways power is exercised through history and discourse...

...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...

... bodies. This integration seems to be invested with limiting the potential positions from which spectators can approach the musical performance—most crucially, in preventing identification with singers' bodies. In this way, the integration of Oklahoma! participates in the tradition of the Wagnerian...

... of collectivity, friendship, and even interspecies affinities, giving spectators glimpses into queer existential and political formations outside of a predominantly LGBT framework. Marc Francis is pursuing his PhD in film studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He works on several topics...

... of knowledge in media, from the subjectivity of spectators to the subjectivity of filmmakers. Jinying Li is an assistant professor of film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the media culture of East Asia. Her essays on Asian cinema, animation, and digital media have been...