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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 299–324.
Published: 01 November 2009
... displacement of class struggle in cinema. Class struggle, according to Žižek, represents the social Real, in the Lacanian sense. By focusing on the Lacanian Real, as opposed to the Imaginary or the Symbolic, Žižek accomplishes what early film theorists were only too eager (but unable) to develop...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2007
... security which, while historically specific to the moment of production – the late 1960s and early 1970s – are also provocatively contemporary in their identification of the limits of resistance. Vanishing Point is read as a film that refuses the escapism of the road movie genre and instead pursues...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 263–278.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Daniele Rugo A recurring feature of Patrick Keiller’s work is the lack of human presence and activity. Throughout his films, Keiller delivers a vision of England as a desert island, depopulated and unoccupied. Scrutinizing Keiller’s early shorts and feature-length films, this article argues...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 November 2022
... program of the early twentieth century, set out in Garden Cities of To-Morrow , is taken as exemplary here. The article ends with a reading of Clive Barker's 1985 short story “The Forbidden” and of the film Candyman , which it gave rise to, whose shared sense of horror at the visceral consequences...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2017
... beyond all human thresholds. Kittler argues that the resulting ability to subvert and simulate human perception is the very definition of technical media. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 digital media early film Fourier transform media theory sound analysis time axis manipulation...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... failed early and caught on late to the need for a globally coordinated response. Coupled with a deep resistance by states to the alienation of any degree of sovereignty to international institutions, the prospect of a global solution to the zombie question remains elusive. This essay offers...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., Catholic, and communist, Pier Paolo Pasolini expertly dabbled in contradictions. While early films like Accatone (1961) and Mamma Roma (1962) employ the minimalist aesthetic and everyday characters of Italian neorealism, his later films are ostentatious and focus on the lives of significant historical...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Muhkerjee for their comments. 1 Some notable exceptions include Jonathan Sterne and Dylan Mulvin’s (2014) special issue “Media, Hot and Cold” in the International Journal of Communication , Finn Brunton’s (2015) “Heat Exchanges,” and Brian Jacobson’s (2015) discussion of heat in early film...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 375–390.
Published: 01 November 2008
... ), certain of the film’s best-remembered monologues were delivered extempore by Sellers, with only the opening lines having been scripted. Peter George’s name certainly appears in the credits of the film alongside Kubrick’s and Southern’s and some accounts do have him working on an early version...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 289–310.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., but gay and, as we shall see later in the film, also transgendered. Let me further articulate Terry's fluid sexuality in two juxtaposing scenes. In an early sequence, Terry, under Cleo's instruction, is in drag, his mission is to seduce Manny and to find out where Devlin's daughter is being held...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (2): 265–270.
Published: 01 July 2009
... Once Were Warriors and the 1994 film adaptation of this book by Māori film director Lee Tamahori. Notable for its depiction of domestic abuse within a Māori family, Once Were Warriors generated controversy within Aotearoa/New Zealand in the early 1990s. Alternately hailed as a positive...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and with whom Godard made the film Vent d’est ( Wind from the East ; 1968), hints at that conclusion in his text “Mon ami Godard” (“My Friend Godard”) ( 2011 : 85–97). Additionally, the mention early in Notre musique of Henri Curiel, famous for his advocacy of Algerians’ rights between 1954 and 1962, firmly...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 March 2009
... picked up or failed to question a very dogmatic version of anticapitalism. Though Beller claims to be saying very general things about what films do, he focuses exclusively on a very few offerings, all highly schematized, driven by simplified ideology more than by plot, dialogue, scenery...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 49–64.
Published: 01 March 2010
... performers. One of the most systematic attempts by the media industries to capitalize on celebrity was by the Hollywood film studios. By the early twentieth century they realized that they could commodify the popularity of their recognizable players, bringing the performers fame and the studio's films...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 358–371.
Published: 01 November 2019
... with the occasion to explore their own ideas and problems that the film brings to mind (returning each person to their specific problems). Indeed, even early in Godard’s radical phase, his use of collage and juxtaposition is so overwhelmingly complex and compounded that the idea that the spectator will decode...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 279–294.
Published: 01 November 2005
... of this scenario is doubtless heightened by its similarity with her mother's situation. Whereas the early part of the film involves Lilya's coming to terms with her mother's refusal to love her, and thus the failure of the Other to make its demand clear to her, Lilya later imitates her mother by finding a figure...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 304–326.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that drives narrative exists as “a plurality of coexisting oppositions” ( Deleuze 2004 : 255). The form of Curtis’s films actively works against the conflation of difference into a harmonious single narrative. For the early Deleuze, this disjunctive mode of synthesis is fundamentally affirmative. Instead...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 333–353.
Published: 01 November 2014
... on media and warfare. This critique is organized around a study of the recent films of Jean-Luc Godard, which focus on the recurrence of the images of the mainstream culture industry and their transformation in wartime Sarajevo. It argues that Godard’s work is concerned with a cinema of cliché, following...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 347–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to contractors threatened to upset the balance of labor power in New Zealand, something which the generally antilabor elements of government could not tolerate. A few years after the ruling, in 2010, the Hobbit films were due to start filming. Prequels to LOTR , they had already had a troubled early...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
... into a globally encompassing cipher for that singular wisdom shared by those elected as reverse elite by the chance forces of war, unified by their sudden victimization and impoverishment. Figure 1 Lida Abdul, White House , 2005. Video stills from 16 mm film on DVD, 4:58 min. © Lida Abdul, Courtesy...
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