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  Failing to Arouse: Pornographic Aesthetics of Queerness

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  March 10, 2025

  possesses Jim and begins sexually terrorizing the tops of Times Square and the West Village--upending them ... private at least promised to the heterosexual. The homosexual, denied a private, becomes always-already ... and the priest return to John’s home to begin planning only to find Jim with his mutilated victim. ...
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  Cutting Up: Keeping Time's Ensemblic Humor

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  April 03, 2025

  immediately and swiftly begin the dialogue again in the same way as the quick, “but you’re still gonna do it.” ... necessarily involves sharing. Its success relies on a positive and prosocial affect—at least within the ... line at the beginning of the film, the jazz ensemble’s humor is as fugitive as their practice. Humor ...
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  Falling Apart at the Seams: Relating through Clothing in Shiva Baby

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  Katie Monthie University of Cincinnati

  September 19, 2025

  cracks in their dynamic begin to show. Danielle’s response to both the tights and this revelation are, ... begins to determine the root of Danielle’s current discomfort. While Danielle’s mother starts to see her ... pain, Maya begins to recognize the source and nature of said pain. Thus marks the beginning of the end ...
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  Preposterous cinema, or The Death of a Nation 

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  WilliamBrown University of British Columbia

  February 24, 2025

  as himself on at least two occasions. Shot in black and white, the film is, according to its ... cutting to digital making-of images as Louis Armstrong’s ‘St. James Infirmary Blues’ (1929) begins to ... least as Donald J. Trump would have us fear), but as darkness. Preposterously, then, the death of ...
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  The Lonsdale Operator

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  Jordan Chrietzberg Georgia State University

  February 11, 2025

  description, we can now begin to read. To read thematically; to read historically; to read affectively and ... as we must—we can now begin to read, just like everyone else: from the same basis, the same work, the ... it into other images. [Other shots? Or is it the same shot?] A gaseous circulation begins: it flows; ...
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  The Empty Panopticon: Surveillance and Parrhesia in Iranian Cinema

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  Parsa Naji Georgia State University

  February 19, 2025

  than an illusion from the very beginning—or at the very least, that it never possessed the level of ...
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  The Substance Is a Witch Film

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  Payton McCarty-Simas

  April 09, 2025

  scrutiny of a woman’s flesh as it begins a rapid descent into decay and hyperbolic dereliction, eventually ... a supernatural one, and none of Elisabeth Sparkle’s parthenogenetic offspring cast spells (at least not ...
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  Swing's Fabulation: Keeping Time

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  April 02, 2025

  home, they dropped Tapscott off at his music teacher’s home to begin working. We know that Tapscott, as ... means we can begin finding our swing, our improvisation, our ensemble.  [1]  In the film, it is left ...
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  A Rhetorical Grammar Analysis of Shiva Baby’s Film Title

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  Anna D'Orazio University of Cincinnati

  September 16, 2025

  shiva  begins, as well as her family’s consistent nagging, the title indicates that Danielle is not ... and Joel, prior to the  shiva. Danielle begins to regress from her adult image as she is reprimanded ...
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  Maintaining the Neoliberal Home: Reproducing the Self through the Body of the Other

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  September 23, 2025

  with their likenesses one by one as they, themselves, begin to move up and down in social ... narrative that begins the shift from a classical organization (separation) into a neoliberal structure ... looked at as they continuously move locations— at least they’re never ungrounded, untethered, without the ...

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