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  Caden Cotard’s Breakfast Table

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  James Harvey-Davitt Anglia Ruskin University

  February 26, 2016

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  Caden Cotard’s Breakfast Table speed Pisters neuroimage montage Elsaesser Charlie Kaufman Curator's Note Synecdoche, New York presents an appropriately disorienting formal representation of its protagonist, Caden Cotard’s, subjective reality. A numbe ...
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  Performing Stardom

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  James Harvey-Davitt Anglia Ruskin University

  April 21, 2015

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  Performing Stardom stars spectatorship Movies about Movies intertextuality immersion Alienation Curator's Note A tendency has appeared across several recent films whereby we see stars playing actors who – during overtly performative moments – allude ...
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  Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

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  Johnny Walker Northumbria University

  April 01, 2014

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  Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror Jason Impey Circulating pain amateur horror Curator's Note In recent years, film and media studies has witnessed growing interest in the areas of “informal” film distribution ...
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  Distorting the Pain of Others

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  April 04, 2014

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  Distorting the Pain of Others Syria revolution distortion compression Circulating pain Curator's Note This video of two Syrian protesters being beaten up by pro-regime thugs in the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, on 18 March 2011 demands our attention, bot ...
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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

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  April Cobos Old Dominion University

  March 31, 2014

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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media social media sexual assault Circulating pain Curator's Note This is a large portion of the video made by a friend of one of the convicted men in the Steubenville rape case after he received photographs of ...
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  What About Boys? Affirmative Consent in American Teen Films

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  Michele Meek, Ph.D. Bridgewater State University

  December 07, 2020

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  What About Boys? Affirmative Consent in American Teen Films sexual consent masculinity sexuality Adolescence Curator's Note Although, over the years, teen films have been criticized for their poor handling of sexual consent, more recent teen movies c ...
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  Extreme Action at the Limits of Endurance

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  May 09, 2014

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  Extreme Action at the Limits of Endurance sport extreme cinema endurance embodiment documentary body athletics Curator's Note Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 (2000), a film by Mel Stuart documenting the 1999 Badwater 135 ultramarathon, follows a ...
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  IRREVERSIBLE: The Climactic Sequence's Flight to Abstract Rapture

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  Tim Palmer UNC Wilmington

  May 08, 2014

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  IRREVERSIBLE: The Climactic Sequence's Flight to Abstract Rapture Gaspar Noé Film style extreme cinema cinéma du corps/cinema of the body avant-garde Curator's Note Hostility and aversion typically greet the designs of the contemporary French ci ...
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  The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability

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  Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  April 03, 2014

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  The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability Circulating pain CTE Instagram MMA spectacle sports coverage twitter UFC violence Curator's Note “Phantom” cameras enabling super slow-motion are now commonplace from ma ...
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  The Unbingeable (or, Saying no to Netflix)

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  Colgate University

  April 24, 2023

  Havas and Tanya Horeck, ‘‘Netflix Feminism: Binge Watching Rape Culture in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and ...

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