The Wound: Effeminacy Against Manhood, Mountain Against City
South African film Inxeba (The Wound) reveals the developmental power male spaces hold over those coerced into passing through them.
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Posts tagged: film
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The Inheritance of Potentiality: An Interview with Joan Copjec
In this 2014 interview, Joan Copjec discusses the development of her thought, the state of psychoanalytic theory, and her recent work.
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The Walls of the WTO: A film by Ryan S. Jeffery and Quinn Slobodian
Watch The Walls of the WTO, a short film that revisits the history of twentieth-century ideas of the world economy through a single building: the Centre William Rappard on the shores of Lake Geneva.
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The Two Avant-Gardes
Peter Wollen's landmark essay on the relation between two distinct traditions of avant-garde film.
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For a Marxist Poetics of Science: An Interview with Esther Leslie
In this career-spanning interview with George Souvlis, Esther Leslie discusses Walter Benjamin, animated film, the history of color, the Historical Materialism project, and the commemoration of the revolutionary past.
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Everything's Coming Together While Everything's Falling Apart: The ZAD
A documentary video on the ZAD by artist Oliver Ressler.
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Reagan at the Movies
A previously unpublished 1986 essay by filmmaker Thom Andersen, excerpted from a new collection of his writings.
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Mourning and Mannahatta
In the Cut cannily moves its counter across a board whose rules have been laid down by Freudian psychoanalysis, Propp’s analysis of folk tales, and film theory’s obsession with the B-movie and noir.
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Movie (1934)
A 1934 poem by Muriel Rukeyser, collected in Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema.
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Subversive Pasolini: La Ricotta and The Gospel According to Matthew — a conversation between Nina Power and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
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How Shlomo Sand Stopped Being a Jew, directed by Bruce Robbins — trailer
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Perpetual War and Permanent Unrest: The Battle of Algiers After 9/11
This essay is excerpted from Sohail Daulatzai's Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue, published by the University of Minnesota Press.
