Here is my latest academic contribution to the project of enlightenment in the form of outpouring of textbooks. BETWEEN GAZES: FEMINIST, QUEER AND OTHER FILMS is a text book in which I introduce key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film. My point of departure is in the question “what do you want from me?” [...]
My sentiments exactly. The film below is particularly timely given that Bush is now leaving his Crawford ranch and moving to a wealthy Dallas suburb. For someone interested in visual politics, the Bush presidency has provided a wealth of fascinating visual texts. For several years his media team completely dominated how political narratives unfolded in [...]
Tagged Bush 43, CrawfordWay back on November 4, Steen Christiansen posted this very interesting and compelling essay on American cinematic utopian /distopian narratives. The discussion focuses primarily on Hal Hartley’s The Girl from Monday but also touches upon other utopian/distopian films, notably Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca, concluding that Gattaca is far more in keeping with traditional Hollywood hegemonic discourses [...]
Tagged Hollywood, Independent, Transgression, Utopian“CARPE DIEM IN BLACK AND WHITE: Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers” (by Camelia Elias) One of the perennial discussions of the concept of the fragment and fragmentary forms revolves around the status of the fragment and the fragmentary in relation to a presupposed whole. Is the fragment a remnant of something broken? Something that has [...]
For those of you who can read Danish, I have a long review of Todd Haynes’ ‘Dylan’-film I’m Not There at Kulturkapellet. Check it out, if you like Dylan, or postmodern meta-film, or both… For those of you who don’t read Danish, here is a clip from the film, depicting the hilarious first meeting between [...]
Tagged Film, Postmodern Culture, Reviews100 million dollars seems trite in Cosmopolis. I still love the film but I can’t think of any film that approximates DeLillo’s Cosmopolis.
I don’t think this video summarizes the story but it’s such a beautiful song and the video is damn clever. Enjoy.
This is a fantastic conversation NPR’s “All Songs Considered” with underground filmmaker John Waters, including some unbelievable music samplings of his favorite songs. He’s got some great stories about growing up in Baltimore in the early 50′s and his early musical influences. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! “I liked Tina better when she was with Ike, she didn’t [...]
Dixie Chicks Shut up and Sing Trailer Well, the Dixie Chicks aren’t the only ones ashamed W is from Texas.
Tagged Activism, Documentary, Music, Popular Culture