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Essays & Papers
Making the Unknowable, Knowable: The Femme Fatale’s Collapse in The Grifters and Jackie BrownShort ArticleModalities of Noir Blackness: Whiteness, Form, and the Racial Floor of the Genre in Deep Cover, Clockers, and Devil in a Blue DressShort ArticleQueer Time and Space: Heteronormativity Refused in Bound and The Doom GenerationShort ArticleSketch Comedy and the Deconstructive Work of DialogismEssayAgainst Spectacle: Duration & Anti-Pleasure in Structural FilmEssayBeyond the Solo: Apparatus, Ethics, and Undoing Individualist Mythology in ‘Free Solo’EssayAdaptation & Transnational Remediation: Remix in ‘Bride & Prejudice’EssayErotic Power: “Scorpio Rising” and the Spectacle of ImpurityEssaySketch Comedy, Bakhtin, and HypertextualityShort ArticleReassessing Noir in ‘Mona Lisa’: Race, Masculinity, and Noir’s Affective TurnEssaySusanne Langer’s Theory of Art — Form Out of Emotion: ‘Under the Skin’ (2013) and “Semblance”EssayContextualizing Kant’s Concept of Genius & Aesthetic IdeasEssaySubverting Genre: The Coen Brothers, Film Noir, and Genre TheoryEssayDiegesis and Perception: Narrative Uncertainty in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (2013)Essay‘Suspiria’ (1977) — Color and SpaceShort ArticleLost Moments: Nostalgia, Physical Media, and the PastEssayThe Legacies of Jazz Musicians on Film + Jazz, Gender, and IdentityEssayDavid Fincher - “It Won't Be Cinematic”EssayWhat/Why Horror?EssayFilm Theory Thesis: Post-Human Relationships in FilmEssayRepresentations of Rebellion and Youth in the ‘banlieue’EssayCognitive Film Theory -- A Bordwell-ian Analysis of ‘Banshees of Inisherin’Short ArticleFormalism/Realism Debates -- Fantasy-Adventure Films in the Modern AgeShort Article‘A New Ciniphilia’: Girish Shambu and the Need for Fresh DiscourseShort ArticleIs it TV or Social Media?EssayGuy Ritchie and the Impact of the French New WaveEssayFirst Reformed: Contextual AnalysisEssay
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