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  "There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them": Procedurality and The Naked City

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  gwijthoff

  March 11, 2010

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  switchboard is an eminently cinematic device, one which can be located at the very beginnings of narrative ...
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  Cinema's Exhaustion and the Vitality of Affect

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  Elena del Rio University of Alberta

  August 29, 2011

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  Cinema's Exhaustion and the Vitality of Affect vitality Steven Shaviro's Post-Cinematic Affect Shaviro exhaustion creative/experimental commodification cinema affect Curator's Note Like an expired body that blends with the dirt to form new ...
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  A hair of the dog that bit us

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  Adrian Ivakhiv University of Vermont

  August 31, 2011

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  A hair of the dog that bit us Steven Shaviro's Post-Cinematic Affect Shaviro cultural theory cinema capitalism Curator's Note Post-Cinematic Affect is a work of “affective mapping” for a world of neoliberal, networked and hypermediated, endlessl ...
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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  September 03, 2012

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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street Wild Style racial politics Race/Ethnicity hip-hopsploitation Hip-Hop Cinema hip-hop cinema Beat Street 1980s Curator's Note If such a thing as “hip-hop cinema” exists, it wa ...
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  Jill Sandwich: The Cinema and 'Resident Evil'

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  Kalisha Cornett University of Chicago

  May 23, 2013

  surrender to the reality of all these truths. The determination to at least delay the loss avoidance ...
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  Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  April 03, 2015

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  Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms neo-liberalism love liquidity competition cinema capitalism Curator's Note Matt Ross’s debut feature, 28 Hotel Rooms  (2012), takes love as a thematic starting point to question the nature of contempo ...
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  Persistence of the Myth of Sisyphus in Visual Culture

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  David Melbye

  November 05, 2018

  Sisyphean paradigm is the larger notion of futility conveyed through at least the suggestion of the rock ...
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  Just like IRL? On Virtual Reality Movie Theaters in the Time of Covid-19

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  Julian Hanich University of Groningen

  June 19, 2020

  least, norms of etiquette are lacking: It’s not uncommon that viewers—hidden behind their anonymized ...
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  Show-boating and Race-baiting: Movies aboard the 'Sunny South'

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  Paul S Moore Ryerson University

  October 12, 2020

  of Jim Crow laws of the time, racially-segregated seating prevailed when the boats docked, at least ...
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  Slow TV and the Loop

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  Edward D. Miller College of Staten Island/CUNY

  March 08, 2021

  minutt, so trains are back—at least on popular media. The series Snowpiercer (based on the 2013 Bong Joon ...

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