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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 81–96.
Published: 01 May 2011
... films established the fact that Loach was both a skillful artist and a crusading social critic. Cathy Come Home (1966) was one of his most successful early efforts. Loach's films can be divided into two broad categories—intimate family dramas that illuminate the politics of everyday life and more...
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the minnesota review (2018) 2018 (90): 51–69.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in light of the intended audience for each film. Gran Torino addresses white male anxieties about race, gender, and class. In depicting the relationship between the protagonist and his Hmong neighbors, the film falls into paternalistic trappings that appeal to white audiences but disturb audiences of color...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (86): 81–100.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and Drew Barrymore film 50 First Dates (2004) as an example of the utopian film genre that Stanley Cavell identifies as “the comedy of remarriage.” It further draws upon the insights of Alain Badiou to theorize a larger schema of related practices that I name the “evental genres” before exploring in some...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (86): 61–80.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Eric D. Smith Following Paul Buhle's claims about the inherent utopianism of horror, this essay examines the popular film Daybreakers (2009) as a cultural response to the economic and biopolitical crises of the Great Recession. Ultimately retreating from the dark mirror of its compelling dystopian...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (103): 103–117.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Isabelle Carbonell Abstract Environmental issues in mainstream documentary film have been aestheticized and personified through specific filmmaking methods such as talking-head interviews, single-character narrative arcs, and three-part dramatic structures. These anthropocentric approaches can make...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 65–79.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Janell Watson Kaja Silverman's body of work spans the disciplines of English, film studies, semiotics, psychoanalytic criticism, feminist theory, masculinity studies, and art history. In this interview, Silverman discusses her career as an interdisciplinarian, beginning with the days when...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (82): 126–150.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of different forms of bad affect needs to be factored into Ahmed’s critical discussions of specific unhappy types—the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, and the melancholic migrant—within her chosen contexts of literature, film, and popular culture. “Ask Me If I Care”: Work, Injustice, and Other People’s...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (89): 57–70.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and film criticism by C. Namwali Serpell, renée c. hoogland, and Eugenie Brinkema develop methodologies for exploring how the arts move us — how they impress themselves upon our bodies and create effects in the world. Adding to the current conversation about postcritical reading, surface reading, distant...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 113–122.
Published: 01 November 2023
... literature has much to tell us about our most pressing social, cultural, and political issues. This article takes as its starting point the racist backlash over Disney’s 2019 casting announcement for its 2023 feature film and the 2020 antiracist graffiti on The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (68): 91–105.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Schamus Interview 91
Jeffrey J. Williams
The Work of Production in the Age of Theory:
An Interview with James Schamus
CEO of Focus Features, James Schamus is a major film producer...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 255–262.
Published: 01 November 2009
...
in at 93 minutes and with slick production values, the film brings
together some of the most startling revelations from muckraking
bestsellers such as Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation (Houghton
Mifflin, 2001) and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma (Penguin,
2006), organizing...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (86): 57–60.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Lovecraft; and the Vincente Minnelli film Meet Me in St. Louis.
While engagements with these thinkers and texts have become com-
monplace today, there was in the mid-1970s still something novel and
even transgressive about offering serious scholarly attention to them. A
number of those involved...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 147–151.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the reviewers of Carillon Magazine.
Horam Kim earned his BA from New York University and his MFA
from Brooklyn College. He wrote and directed the feature film I Love
You, Apple, I Love You, Orange. His writing has appeared or is forth-
coming in Green Mountains Review, Vestal Review, Small Spiral Note...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 159–163.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to. He is hopeful that by telling these stories, he can help shape the kinds of trans stories that are told, pushing beyond narratives that center trauma and violence. He was a participant of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Fall 2021 Writers Residency. His first film project, Scaring Women...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 65–79.
Published: 01 May 2023
... infamous example of an urgent mind that rides roughshod over films and other philosophers or critics, but whatever you think of his results, they invariably present a coherent critical perspective and pattern of thought. Stanley Cavell s early writing on film offers a more congenial example. The first...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 157–161.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of media and communication at the Izmir
University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses
in film history, theory, and criticism. His essays and reviews have
appeared in such journals as the Yale Review, Film Quarterly, and
Cinema Journal, and he is the author, editor...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (86): 37–38.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Patrick Kindig © 2016 Patrick Kindig 2016 Patrick Kindig
Failure to Launch
You know that movie where Matthew McConaughey
lives with his parents and Sarah Jessica Parker
is a prostitute pretending
to be a therapist? Well, tonight my dick
is like that film —pure...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 60–61.
Published: 01 May 2011
... show him
what I’ve made with math. I show him
how I shot my bedroom in 25 steps,
so that the contact sheet made a mosaic
of the room, with black-bordered grids
reading Kodak Tri-X. It’s good film,
good grain. Even the mistakes
are good. Look how I’ve made my world
into measurable space. I have...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 33–37.
Published: 01 November 2022
... cutting. I mentioned the hairs to him once, he rolled his eyes and told me to wear socks or vacuum more. I wasn t upset by his reaction, really. Can you blame a person for shedding their hair? I bought an old Olympus film camera and went through rolls of film practicing. I started a fresh new Instagram...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (69): 207–208.
Published: 01 November 2007
... © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Books for Review
the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of recent books, as well as
of journals, significant articles, publishers’ catalogs or programs, book series,
conferences, novels, poetry, films, television, advertising...
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