... of the Senses in Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom Elena del Río The eye is not the mind, but a material organ. —Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception The visible caresses the eye. One sees and hears...

... and in contemporary German and Austrian literature and film. Escape Fantasy (The Princess and the Warrior, dir. Tom Tykwer, Germany, 2000). Courtesy X-Verleih Melodrama’s Other: Entrapment and Escape in the Films of Tom Tykwer Heidi Schlipphacke The closing tableau of each of German filmmaker...

...), Savage Grace (dir. Tom Kalin, Spain/US/France, 2007), and A Single Man (dir. Tom Ford, US, 2009). Released at a historical conjuncture when queer debates about marriage and conjugal life are deeply polarized, these works share an ambivalent and stylized fascination with the white bourgeois family...

... BeautifulAgony.com , a site exclusively focusing on the face of orgasm. Using Tom Gunning's research on the gnostic impulse of cinema, or the drive to reveal “new visual knowledge” through technology, I interrogate hard-core representation in the context of visual media and knowledge production. Beautiful Agony's...

...J. E. Smyth Although The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (dir. Nunnally Johnson, US, 1956) ostensibly focuses on Tom Rath (Gregory Peck), the production of the screenplay and shooting largely revolved around actress Jennifer Jones's characterization of Betsy Rath, a stay-at-home wife and mother...

... of Tom Lutz, Steve Neale, and Linda Williams. Peter Brooks and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith mobilized ideas expressed here about melodrama. As a melodramatic enactment of masculine roles in the late 1950s and early 1960s, The Manchurian Candidate is both a trauma film and a “male weepy.” Joy McEntee...

... of race and sexuality, as well as of formulating “queer of color” as a kind of critical modality. Much like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin functions, according to Sigmund Freud, as a cultural artifact prized in the form of an idealized beating fantasy by the Victorian (white) child, Imitation...

... of the allegorical narrative that relates the forgotten men to the nation, establishing a pattern that other Forgotten Man films, whatever their genre, would follow. In Heroes, Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess) is a World War I veteran who is deprived of honor by Roger (Gordon West- cott), a superior...

... (Ethel Waters), makes a living as a washer- woman. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Pinky has been passing for white and is involved with a white man, Tom (William Lundigan), whom she is fleeing. Close to where her grandmother lives is an old...

...; CBS, 1975 – 79), however, in that its characters’ experience of their sexu- ality was never glamorized. By deploying the soap opera conven- tion of multiple narratives, the program could offer a spectrum of sexual comfort and expression: Mary and her husband Tom’s (Greg Mullavey) sexless...

... fortune, whose location in the long-abandoned Amory mansion can only be discovered by matching two ancient documents. Ruth Hope, with her champion Tom Thurston, finds the Codes and does battle against the villain, J. Haviland Hunter, who is trying to steal the documents and usurp the fortune...

... Invasion” (forthcoming in Textual Practice ), and “Flirting with the Law: Queer Culture beyond Transgression” ( Academic Quarter ). © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 Spike Jonze Her human-machine love immaterial parasite technology and prosthesis general intellect Figure 1. Agent Tom Greer...

... does not appear on the body’s surface. At the conclu- sion of the cable car sequence, Lars-­Erik spots Tom (uncredited), a watchman at the Barring estate who appears to be missing a leg and holds a cane apparently modeled on the “peg leg” referred to in the film script. After seeing Tom, the boy...

...- Reconstructing Shirley  • 3 ing to the paradigm of interracial relations established primarily by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) (first adapted for the screen by Edwin S. Porter in 1903, and rearticulated in Grif- fith’s early shorts His Trust [US, 1911] and His Trust Fulfilled  [ U S...

... , Albert , and Tom O'Regan. An Australian Film Reader . Sydney: Currency Press, 1985 . Moran , Albert , and Tom O'Regan. The Australian Screen . Melbourne: Penguin, 1989 . Morris , Meaghan . “Identity Anecdotes,” Camera Obscura 12 ( 1984 ): 41 –65. Morris , Meaghan...

... popular stage play of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Indeed, if anything, Temple and Robinson are less physically intimate than Tom and Eva had been. Nonetheless, their pairing serves a similar function. In Stowe’s novel, Tom and Eva’s relationship is character- ized by cultural...

... Rebecca to Rope.17 But ultimately I find myself provoked to go still further by Tom Cohen’s meticulous attention to a number of unclaimed signifiers in Hitch- cock’s work, in this case the letter R  itself, which Cohen says stands for “repetition.”18 Following the R  f r o m Rebecca  t o Rope...

... detective Tom Welles in 8MM illustrates with startling clarity the departure from Savran’s model.6 Welles, the initial center of moral authority in the film, crosses the line to become a vigilante, a bane to snuff pornographers, but his suffering is rewarded nei- ther by moral satisfaction, masculine...

... by Tony Scherman by Ihor Holubizky and David Moos. Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1994. A Modest Proposal by Mary Ellen Carroll. Tz’Art & Co., 1994. Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock by Tom Cohen. Cambridge University Press, 1994. $16.95. United States by Thomas L...