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• In Media Res
  Re: The Price of Politics

  Sport, ideology, politics

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  Robert Sinnerbrink Macquarie University, Sydney

  Thursday, December 12, 2013 — 11:32 am

  Thanks Adam for a really interesting post and video clip. The doco seems to be working in counterpoint, revealing the discipline, will, and pain that underlie and make possible the spectacular media moments of Olympic victory and culturally-charged sentim ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Carax's Oneiric Drive

  Holy Wood Drive-In

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  Robert Sinnerbrink Macquarie University, Sydney

  Friday, December 13, 2013 — 6:20 am

  Thanks Elena for a wonderful post and video clip (and John's great comments on the car and becoming-animal). It's very interesting that you mention Bachelard in relation to Leos Carax. It is certainly an extraordinary exercise in poetic imaginat ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Return of the Cinematic Dead

  Death by Videotape

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  Robert Sinnerbrink Macquarie University, Sydney

  Friday, December 13, 2013 — 11:15 pm

  Thanks John for a great post and amazing clip. I think Ringu is extraordinary and shows, yet again, how the best horror relies more on suggestion and implication than assertion or demonstration (as you say, revealing what is horrific, disturbing, or uncan ...