By Madeline Lane-McKinley | Like all of Charlie Kaufman’s films, Anomalisa eventually reaches a critical threshold, at which the aesthetic… Read more Monotony and Efficiency in Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa’
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Call For Proposals: HOUSEWORK
“Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative,” Angela Davis writes, “these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.”[i]… Read more Call For Proposals: HOUSEWORK
‘Unfriended’ Unpacks Cyber-Sociality
By Johanna Isaacson | In Unfriended (2015) a teen bullied into suicide, Laura Barnes, returns to cyberspace to haunt the… Read more ‘Unfriended’ Unpacks Cyber-Sociality
Long Seventies Conspiracy Cinema: An Introduction
By Madeline Lane-McKinley | “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a… Read more Long Seventies Conspiracy Cinema: An Introduction
Apparatuses of Capture: Producing a New Regime of Accumulation Through a New Community of Men
By Robert Wood | “By turning his money into commodities which serve as the building materials for a new product,… Read more Apparatuses of Capture: Producing a New Regime of Accumulation Through a New Community of Men
Managed Monsters: “The Babadook” as Care Strike
By Johanna Isaacson | In 1963 Betty Friedan diagnosed the frustration and depression of the housewife as “the problem with… Read more Managed Monsters: “The Babadook” as Care Strike
Imagining the End of Capitalism in ‘Post-Occupy’ Dystopian Films: Part 2
By Madeline Lane-McKinley | “Utopia has been euclidean, it has been European, and it has been masculine. I am trying… Read more Imagining the End of Capitalism in ‘Post-Occupy’ Dystopian Films: Part 2
Elotes and Eviction: Snapshot Perspectives from Youth on the Beach Flats Community Garden
By Michelle Glowa, Leslie Lopez, Kathy Chaput, and the dedicated students and mentors of the Corre la Voz Program | At… Read more Elotes and Eviction: Snapshot Perspectives from Youth on the Beach Flats Community Garden
A Fugue State: Brief Remarks on “Into the Forest”
By Brent Ryan Bellamy | The opening night of The 26th St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival began with a… Read more A Fugue State: Brief Remarks on “Into the Forest”
Dying in Kitchens
By Madeline Lane-McKinley | I: How Many Times Have You Died In Your Kitchen? “… A young crust punk girl… Read more Dying in Kitchens
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