In Media Res

Search results

• In Media Res
  

  Some movies are bad, but some are undead: Watchmen

  By

  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  March 18, 2009

  6 comments

  film of the loveable sort can sometimes provide a glimpse of the excitement of unbounded possibility ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

  Cinematic madness

  By

  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Monday, March 16, 2009 — 2:57 pm

  Jeff, this post and clip are so great! What I’m curious about is how this clip (and perhaps Lewis’ ... nauseating real toward which badfilm draws us is on some level a gut-wrenching lurch toward insanity.  I’m ... also are associated with the fringes not just of culture but of sanity—hence the possibility of ...
• In Media Res
  

  Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party

  By

  Jeffrey Sconce Northwestern University

  March 16, 2009

  6 comments

  Anxious Coed Spontaneous Fried-Chicken Dance Party narration bad movies diegesis Curator's Note Sublime badness exists in a signifying purgatory, caught somewhere between diegetic suspension and profilmic fascination.  Scenes are blocked, lines deliv ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Miss Independent, or Between Women - Reconsidered

  slashing the covers

  By

  Dana Luciano Georgetown University

  Saturday, March 14, 2009 — 1:05 am

  I’m interested, as I said earlier, in the way this vid and the one Dana posted might talk to one ... repurposings like Rin on the Rox’s do to that genre? I’m thinking here also of Karen’s question, “We are so ... “acting out against extinction”? I’m intrigued but having a hard time filling in what you might have in ...
• In Media Res
  Re: El Cazador de la Ciudadana

  Good observation

  By

  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  Thursday, March 12, 2009 — 4:23 pm

  the same sentence, he looked at me like I had two heads--like I could not possibly be serious.  I got ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Miss Independent, or Between Women - Reconsidered

  Productively irreconcilable

  By

  Ronald Becker Miami University

  Thursday, March 12, 2009 — 1:23 pm

  "straight-forwardly" queer duet (or perhaps your persuasive framing of one possible reading?) also provides ...
• In Media Res
  

  Miss Independent, or Between Women- Reconsidered

  By

  Karen Tongson University of Southern California

  March 12, 2009

  4 comments

  configurations of love—like friendship—that carry other affective promises. We forget the fun and joy possible in ...
• In Media Res
  

  Nadya Suleman: Drag Mom and/or Social Menace

  By

  Ronald Becker Miami University

  March 11, 2009

  5 comments

  Note Although so much has already been said about Nadya Suleman in the popular press (and I’m sure ... clear, I’m not troubled by her “irresponsible” decision to implant 6 embryos at a time when she was ... (I’m not saying that that wasn’t irresponsible, just that I’m not all that troubled by it.) I suppose ...
• In Media Res
  

  El Cazador de la Ciudadana

  By

  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  March 10, 2009

  6 comments

  El Cazador de la Ciudadana immigration slash fiction El Cazador de la Inmigrantes, anime queer citizenship Curator's Note El Cazador de la Ciudadana (The Hunter of the Citizen)   I am using this week’s theme to call attention to the ways in which que ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Online Holocaust Testimony: Questions of Ethics, Pathos, and Media Specificity

  Whose Story Is It?

  By

  Catherine Summerhayes` Australian National University

  Friday, March 6, 2009 — 5:49 am

  seems possible from the intimacy elicited from the interview itself. ...

Pages