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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (2): 343–372.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Christopher McGowan Abstract This article argues that Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008) represents an unexpected but compelling mutation of the genre of postindustrial labor film. Hunger depicts the protests of Irish republican prisoners inside the Maze Prison that culminated in the 1981 Irish hunger...
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 65–87.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Lilya Kaganovsky Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 There Is No Acoustic Relation
Considerations on Sound and Image in Post-Soviet Film
lilya kaganovsky
Kira Muratova’s 1992 fi lm, Chuvstvitel’nyi militsioner (The Sen-
timental Policeman), opens with a close-up of a baby’s face.1...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 263–278.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Robert Alford Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 REVIEW ESSAY
Fighting the “Culture of Certainty”
A Review of Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe’s
Zero Patience: A Queer Film Classic
robert alford
John Greyson’s musical Zero Patience (1993) is provocatively,
playfully...
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Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 2. Ming of Harlem , film still (2014). Ming observes the “easy meat” at the retirement home across the street.
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Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 3. Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies , film still (2008). For a moment, the horizon line is stolen by an onboard aquarium.
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Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 4. Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies , film still (2008). Jean-Luc describes the continuous line of a Möbius strip he generates during the film.
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 63–78.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Nicholas Baer Abstract This essay examines the role of rumors in F. W. Murnau’s films as well as in later writings about his life and career. While Murnau perpetuates long-standing figurations of gossip as a frivolous or even malicious activity, he also grants unverified information a truth value...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Brandon S. Callender Abstract Beginning with James Baldwin’s critique of The Exorcist in The Devil Finds Work (1976) and ending with campy allusions to the film in the works of three contemporary black gay authors, this article argues that the aesthetics of possession helps articulate queer forms...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 163–197.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Filippo Menozzi Abstract This essay proposes a reading of the American photographer Allan Sekula’s 1995 essay “Dismal Science” alongside The Forgotten Space , an essay film he directed with Noël Burch in 2010. These works are still resonant today because they suggest the possibility of picturing...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 387–401.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Fig. 2. Ming of Harlem , film still (2014). Ming observes the “easy meat” at the retirement home across the street. ...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2018
... for an inclusion. Since his “diaspora aesthetics” is based on black British films, photography, and visual art, this reassessment of his work concludes with a consideration of the Beninese artist Romuald Hazoumè’s La Bouche du Roi . This room-size multimedia slave ship installation brings a history...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 63–90.
Published: 01 December 2003
... a kind of whole Sidney.
— Sidney Poitier, This Life, 19802
Preface
This essay, my second attempt at reading a film produced by
Stanley Kramer (Pressure Point to be exact, a 1962 film starring
Sidney Poitier and Bobby...
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 13–28.
Published: 01 June 2001
... that brought fascism to power and set fascist time in motion.
In this essay, I would like to take up the question of time and
the nation in Italian Fascism by looking at a film that takes this very
issue as its explicit topic, Alessandro Blasetti's 1935 Vecchia guardia...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 285–300.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., and the other major streaming services offered no films from the former Soviet Union or the Eastern bloc at the time that this review was written. YouTube, notably, still hosts a large catalog of Mosfilm, Leninfilm, and other regional studios; however, one now must navigate several warnings about their being...
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Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 91–117.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of postcolonial studies, film studies,
and visual studies, I will consider it here only briefly. As in the
Hegelian ontology from which it derives, Freudian/Lacanian psy-
choanalysis constructs a subject that comes into being through the
other According to Lacan, during the mirror stage, which takes...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 85–101.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the film does
Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), the child psychologist to whom Cole
confides, finally realize the full implications of what his patient has
been trying to tell him: that Crowe is one of these dead people who
has trespassed the supposedly unbridgeable barrier between the liv-
ing...
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Qui Parle (2001) 12 (2): 15–55.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of the movies" as well
as "Hitchcock's most passionate film," one writer explains: "What
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gets to you in Vertigo isn't anything so straightforward as visceral
shock, but the stunned, hypnotic lassitude of its pace."19 This pecu-
liar rhythm perhaps sets Vertigo...
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... In
this same vein, it is the records of gender relations — articulated in
films, paintings, novels, newspapers, etc.— that most pointedly re-
veal the sociological underpinnings of fascist discourse. The essays
collected here consider the ebb and flow between fascist ideologies...
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 57–102.
Published: 01 June 2001
...
Lamour associated with a Sorelian revival of "primitive," mytho-
poetic consciousness. Machine aesthetics — manifest in montage
techniques in film and photography, modern architecture, and au-
tomotive design — constituted so many "mythic images" able to
sustain...
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