...W. D. Phillips Aesthetic histories of the stag film tend to place it in a straightforward lineage of pornographic imagery such that the film genre emerges more or less fully formed. Discursive histories, however, have noted that the term does not concretize in relation to the film form until...

... having the good things: the right taste in clothes, cigars, and spirits. But it is even more fundamentally a fantasy that your leisure time can be supervised by the erotic, that everything can be staged in reference to it. An earlier draft of the cartoon presented not a bunny but a stag...

.... A larger portion of the literature, that is, goes back and forth between animal and human behavior, setting up equivalents or near equivalents that sew together the larger evolutionary narrative. “What is the human equivalent of the stag’s antlers and the peacock’s tail?” asks one well- known...

...," then "rot and rot." Jacques' melancholic fascination with a dying and helpless stag is staged "as he lay along / Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out / Upon the brook that brawls along this wood" (2.1.30-32). Robert Blair connects the idea of the melancholic's removal into a similarly pastoral...

... constitute a critical chiasmus that converges on the problem of the mass media as instrument of social control: the colonization of profession- al wrestling by television's mass marketing strategies results in an elaborate stag- ing of controlled fictive violence that is intended to forestall precisely...

... of profession- al wrestling by television's mass marketing strategies results in an elaborate stag- ing of controlled fictive violence that is intended to forestall precisely the sort of REVIEWS 353 real, autonomous violence that the riots...

... of profession- al wrestling by television's mass marketing strategies results in an elaborate stag- ing of controlled fictive violence that is intended to forestall precisely the sort of REVIEWS 353 real, autonomous violence that the riots...

... be repression. Melodrama refuses repression, or rather, repeatedly strives towards moments where repression is broken through, to the physical and verbal stag- ing of the essential: moments where repressed content returns as recognition, of the deepest relations of life” (Brooks 1994, 19). The sexual...

... constitute a critical chiasmus that converges on the problem of the mass media as instrument of social control: the colonization of profession- al wrestling by television's mass marketing strategies results in an elaborate stag- ing of controlled fictive violence that is intended to forestall precisely...

... where "Evelyn misrecognizes his image in a labyrinthine reworking of Lacan's mirror-stage" (242), an argument with which I agree, except that I see the mirror-stage proper 108. GENRE occurring during the Tristessa's house chapter. The novel implies that these stag- es all happen concurrently...