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Cinema as Pleasure Principle

Essays

  • The Passion of the Zone (Pt. 1)

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 5 / May 2016
    Randolph Jordan

  • Against Demonologies: Character, Cognition, and Circumstance in Z for Zachariah and The Martian

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 5 / May 2016
    Daniel Garrett

  • The Startle as Art:  Part 2 of a Study of the Use of the Startle Effect in The Thing

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 5 / May 2016
    Robert Fuoco

  • Engineering Shock:  Part 1 of a Study of the Use of the Startle Effect in The Thing

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 5 / May 2016
    Robert Fuoco

  • Substance is Subject:  A ‘Compass’ to Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 4 / April 2016
    Stefan Gullatz

  • Death, time and the possibilities of renewal in Carlos Reygadas’ Silent Light and Carl T. Dreyer’s Ordet

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 4 / April 2016
    Ian Tan

  • Todd Haynes, I’m Not There and the Postmodern Biopic

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 4 / April 2016
    David Hanley

  • A Harrowing Exploration of War and the Meaning of Human Existence: The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye, Larisa Shepitko, 1977)

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 3 / March 2016
    Peter Wilshire

  • The Crisis of National Identity and Nation: A Comparative Analysis of La Grand Illusion and Bashu, The Little Stranger

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 3 / March 2016
    Anna Fahr

  • Volker Schlöndorff’s Diplomatie: Dramatizing Peace

    Published in Volume 20, Issue 3 / March 2016
    George Lellis, Hans-Bernhard Moeller

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