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differences (2002) 13 (3): 24–63.
Published: 01 December 2002
... . She is completing a book manuscript called Perversions of Intimacy: Tanizaki and the Sex of Prewar Japan . Anderson, Joseph L., and Donald Richie. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1982 . Chiba, Nobuo. Eiga to Tanizaki [Cinema and Tanizaki]. Tokyo: Heibunsha...
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differences (1990) 2 (2): 55–75.
Published: 01 July 1990
...Tania Modleski TANIA M ODLESKI The Incredible Shrinking He(r)man: Male Regression, the Male Body, and Film Even in this age offemale liberation, the pressures on men in our society are immense - to perform, to succeed, to "score" with women, to hold up an image that is illusory and usually leads...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Karl Schoonover Max Ophuls’s Hollywood films from the late 1940s, including the noir feature The Reckless Moment , take disposability as a central problem. This essay argues that these films attribute an obdurate presence to objects, often foregrounding the dominance of clutter over the agency...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 70–85.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Margarethe von Trotta In this memoir of the origins and making of her film Hannah Arendt , Margarethe von Trotta places it in the context of her two earlier film biographies of prominent women: Rosa Luxemburg (1986) and Vision (original title: Vision—Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen , 2009...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 194–223.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Mrinalini Chakravorty; Leila Neti This article reads Stephen Frears's film Dirty Pretty Things (2002) to consider the questions of subjectivation and commodification motivating postcolonial critiques of power. The authors suggest that in the film, the assertion of sovereignty is articulated through...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 106–120.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Adi Ophir Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt offers a brilliant cinematic interpretation of one of the most pivotal chapters in Hannah Arendt’s life and work, the Eichmann trial. The author argues that the film correctly assumes that Arendt’s thinking on evil underwent an important change during...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 60–91.
Published: 01 May 2022
... policy. To investigate the reverberations of such contemporary political and academic investments in drug-war-fueled repair, the article focuses on a recent wave of black fiction and film that reenvisions the 1980s War on Drugs in the era of the opioid epidemic, with particular attention to Barry...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 61–69.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Michael P. Steinberg This introduction to the difference s dossier on Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt follows three registers simultaneously: the presentation and implied argument of the film, its foundation in Arendt’s 1963 articles and book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 116–141.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., the author examines the ways the film transforms the genre and conjures up an alternative socialist space, which also provides room for more fluid gender formations that radically redefine such notions as women and femininity . This essay also uncovers in the film an affective space contiguous with both...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 142–164.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sara Cohen Shabot This article argues that Dogville , a film by the polemical Danish director Lars von Trier (2003) , has a great deal to say on the themes of freedom and of the ambiguity of oppression. This discussion of the film’s philosophical grounding brings several defining ideas...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Dionte Harris This essay examines the game played in the first act of Barry Jenkins’s 2016 film Moonlight . “Smear the queer” is a game most resembling tackle football. The author examines how the “rules” of the game manifest as a type of power, one whose function is to set the terms of relation...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 121–131.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Arendt while thinking and to reconfigure this activity with or against Arendt. The challenge of depicting thinking is one that Pamela Katz, the screenwriter, and Margarethe von Trotta, the director, confronted in the making of the film. Had they followed Arendt’s own arguments about herself and about...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 32–70.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Elizabeth Freeman Through a close analysis of Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant, this essay argues that sadomasochistic sex practice ought to be understood in temporal terms, as a play of pause against surprise, suspension against shock. In The Attendant, Freeman contends, Julien rethinks S/M...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 28–58.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Rosalyn Diprose This article explores the impossibility and necessity of belonging to gender, race, and place. It does so against the background of Ivan Sen's Australian film Beneath Clouds (2001), with the specificities of Australian landscape and the rural/urban divide that it captures...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 73–108.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jacques Khalip This article concentrates on the substance of audition in Derek Jarman's Blue . In his last feature film, Jarman makes a decisive ethical and aesthetic break: he shifts value away from the overdetermined cultural premiums associated with the visual ``spectacle'' and onto...
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figures 25–26 The “real” adult Ignacio as evoked by Señor Berenguer differs markedly from the adult Ignacio portrayed by Juan in Enrique’s film. Bad Education , Pedro Almodóvar, 2004
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figures 25–26 The “real” adult Ignacio as evoked by Señor Berenguer differs markedly from the adult Ignacio portrayed by Juan in Enrique’s film. Bad Education , Pedro Almodóvar, 2004
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 116–133.
Published: 01 September 2017
... walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on August 6, 1974; Petit’s own writings about his “coup”; and the testimonies of the impact of this act on those who witnessed it that are captured in James Marsh’s film, Man on Wire (2008). © 2017 by Brown University...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 May 2020
... refusal that, as with political refusal, operates not through simple negation, but through creating openings or ruptures that allow new possibilities to emerge. Such aesthetic refusal, which finds its most radical postwar expression in the antispectacular films of Guy Debord, thus arises as a means...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 73–96.
Published: 01 December 2010
...), producing a rotting film form that simultaneously brings into being the possibility of the chromatically new. The author argues that criticism errs in taking rot as a fixed, concrete, knowable thing made available as a present, transparent “image of” (a corpse, softening meat, some mold). Rot is neither...
