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Category Archive: Film/TV Discussion

Kurosawa’s Cure 

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Introduction As Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure initially unfolds, the film’s audience is as confused as its characters. The movie […]

February 12, 2022 Film/TV Discussion

Bodies and Receptivity : Violence

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We are all subjects of violence, and a person unaffected by violence, whether it is in the form of silence, art, ritual, or brute force, is merely an abstraction.

April 20, 2020 Film/TV Discussion

The Matrix of Toxic White Masculinity

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Much of the discourse around mass shooters ignores that the phenomena arises out of a trio of factors: racism, online communities, and guns. The fight against mass shootings must be fought on all three fronts.

September 19, 2019 Film/TV Discussion

A Requiem for a Dream: The Place of Anxiety

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The true vision of reality is never benign. That’s why, for example, movie characters who use the phrase, “this is too good to be true,” are almost always correct. And if they are not suspicious of their fortune, then audiences can peg the character(s) are certainly naive and most likely doomed.

May 17, 2019 Film/TV Discussion

Men With Guns: Taxi Driver (1976) and Breathless (1960)

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By situating the film’s protagonist, Travis Bickle, in conversation with other Big Screen Outlaws, we find that the politics of resentment are co-constitutive with the violence of toxic masculinity.

April 6, 2019 Film/TV Discussion, Words
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