... further consideration. In spite of its rather wide- Vince (Ethan Hawke) taunts Jon (Robert Sean Leonard) in Tape (dir. Richard Linklater, US, 2001) Camera Obscura 64, Volume 22, Number 1 doi 10.1215/02705346-2006-022  © 2007 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 113...

... Fiction’s Vincent Vega (John Travolta), Tarantino’s characters get caught with their pants down. We might even under- stand “getting caught with one’s pants down” as the central metaphor of Pulp Fiction. Not only does Vince Vega get killed as a consequence of an untimely visit to the john...

... on the educational film market). Many people and institutions still do not see the need for women’s films. Though the Women’s Movement has brought about changes in the last 10 years - some significant, some merely attitudinal - it remains difficult to con- vince public and university libraries that more than...

... celebrities: “Viewed by millions, the show has included perfor- mances by Grammy-­nominated artist Flo Rida, Baby Bash, Smash- mouth, Lit, Lil’ Jon & the Ying Yang Twins and has featured appearances by celebrities such as Dave Attell, Gene Simmons, Jim Norton, Bobby Slayton, Chris Angel, Vince Neil...

... at sea in this vignette. At first, he does not know whether a crime took place. He soon becomes con- vinced of the veracity of his host persona, but remains unable to describe the brutal events when called to do so on the witness stand. In complementary fashion, Ziggy...

... and clumsily made Back to the Future should have con- 71 vinced Hollywood that there is something commercially attractive about the idea of time travel. Indeed, The Terminator’s appeal is due in large part to the way it is able to put to work this classical science fiction theme. Compared...

...- L vinces side by side,i or a frontier. Each is “in” the other and the other in it: the other of the other. What unites them is the same as what separates them (as in the principle of the paradigm, which is not related to metaphor for nothing): this is censorship...

... identified as sick, while, at the other end of the spectrum, Catherine’s clinical gaze is ideally curative and, in the final baptism scene, ultimately palliative. Poised with the clin- ical focus on the individual psyche is the socially oriented in- vestigative gaze of the FBI agent, Peter Novak (Vince...

... idiosyncratically lesbian if it were not so Shake- spearean. It is like a queer reboot of the moment in A Winter s Tale where Leontes accuses his pregnant wife of infidelity and, con- vinced that she bears his male friend s progeny, not his own, orders the infant to be abandoned in the wilderness when born. Both...

... for Hillary, the contextualization of Elena's crime (shoplifting lipsticks) on the day before Thanksgiving suggests a damning judgment on Hillary as then-suspected fraudster or worse: one need only recall conspiracy theories about her in the wake of White House staffer Vince Foster's suicide—theories...

... May 2021. 27. Donaldson, “Making a Spectacle,” 571. 28. Chuck Jackson, “Little, Violent, White: The Bad Seed and the Matter of Children,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 28, no. 2 (2000): 68. 29. “Ripe,” episode 4 of Sharp Objects , writ. Vince Calandra, dir. Jean-Marc...

...- vincing, and while I am drawing heavily on some of her suggestions, I would like to emphasize the fact that I am arguing for the opposite effect in my own thesis. 5. I realize these are fairly grand claims, but, as I hope to demonstrate in my argument, the fact that dinosaurs...

... that • Camera Obscura Peck had been instrumental in cutting Jones’s scenes as a means of enhancing his own star power.33 Selznick, however, was not con- < g. cap.>Streets of London, Children of vinced and complained to others that Jones had always “disliked” Men...

... discourse’s legal language (“some are con- vinced that eyewimess testimony is reliable”) and participates in link- ing abduction with child abuse. Of course, in everyday life the lines between talk of UFOs and talk of, say, dinosaurs, asteroids, or charmed quarks are not so blurred. UFOs bear...

... spiritual in her love for the King. She told me of the time she went to Vegas in order to show her sister one particularly con- vincing impersonator. The show, she said, included laser beams, a smoke machine and a rising platform on the stage-all of which ap- parently created a sense...

... the "female circle," to "get involved in the sphere of politics," and to "succeed in con- vincing the decision makers, both male and female, and to try to struggle for the abolition of sexual mutilation. "58 Thiam's move towards participation in electoral politics highlights the suppression...

... for their responses to this essay at various stages. I am particularly indebted to Sasha Torres for her perceptive comments and skillful editing. 1. “Badlaa” episode of The X-Files, writ. John Shiban, dir. Tony Wharmby, prod. Vince Gilligan, Frank Spotnitz, and Chris Carter, Fox, 21 January 2001...

... increased along with the threat of an impending draft, the “problem” that Fosdick described gained larger ~ignificanceGovernment officials had become con- vinced of the need to develop a campaign against venereal disease, first, to preserve military efficiency and, second...