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  Stochasticity and the Fact of Film

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  Davide Panagia Trent University

  October 02, 2012

  2 comments

  there is the precursory darkness of a becoming that orchestrates neither beginning nor ending, but ... each still is a beginning and ending. Of course there are genres and conventions, and more or less ...
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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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  Anime Fairy Tales: Fighting Fate and Convention

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  Amanda Landa RTF UT-Austin

  March 14, 2012

  3 comments

  begins, “mukashi, mukashi,” or “long ago,” and each episode is themed with orchestral pieces from famous ... Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker, and others. In the beginning, Duck/Tutu’s primary opponents are the dark ...
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  "A Dream's End": Temporalities in Abounaddara's Emergency Cinema

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  Zainab Saleh University of Rochester

  February 08, 2016

  2 comments

  begins with the silhouette of a man in close-up, backlit against a bright window. As with most of the ... videos, this one has little context. It begins, in media res if you will, and we hear the man speak. ... Although the video’s beginning or end might seem arbitrary, the man’s narrative attempts to provide ...
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  Re: Of Catfish and Cod

  Vince’s comment about the

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  Sunday, February 2, 2014 — 7:54 pm

  documentary his demeanor contrasts so much with his demeanor in the beginning. The tone that he poses seems to ... Nev has desired, that maybe the world isn't as perfect has he thought it was in the beginning. ...
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  Re: Encoding Race in Westworld

  Nuance

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  Sasha Crawford-Holland University of Southern California

  Friday, May 4, 2018 — 6:30 pm

  (spoilers) the uprising binary begins to fracture (hinted at in Dolores and Maeve's confrontation in ... episode 2) and as more complex coalitions begin to form. ...
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  Re: The Price of Politics

  Capacity and Temporality

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  Elena Gorfinkel King's College London

  Wednesday, December 11, 2013 — 5:05 pm

  taken, and then on the other the sense of a will to act that is a beginning, a beginning to act. How do ... we square the already taken with the beginning? Further, I am curious how this enduring body, this ...
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  A24’s “Heretic” and The History of Mormonism in Cinema

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  Mickey Randle Georgia State University

  December 05, 2024

  The film allegedly portrays Latter-Day Saint history, beginning with Joseph Smith, the founder of the ... the film was at the very least condoned, if not produced, by the Church. Since the 1990s, the LDS ... off, the film is well researched and thought-out, at least on behalf of its Latter-Day Saint ...
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  Re: Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

  Following up on Avi's

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  Elana Levine

  Thursday, March 20, 2008 — 5:41 pm

  and television (at least the feminized television the previous three entries have addressed--soaps, ... the white male aggression it represents, or at least to lament it, but it offers no hope of a more ...
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  Re: The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

  yellow peril

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  Kim Paffenroth Iona College

  Monday, September 28, 2009 — 1:58 pm

  COMMANDO. But as for our zombies: part of the analysis of Romero's zombies at least is how multi-ethnic ... "other" (at least in so far as the "other" is racially typecast). Do you think Resident Evil just ...

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