Veronica, fantastic contribution, thanks for sharing it. Much like Tina and Tanya's post about memes, and my own post later this week about sports/documentary, I'm curious if you agree that "extreme" imagery (such as rape) is merely a ...
Thanks Niels for getting this week on Extreme Cinema started! I think how you read Dumont is interesting precisely because it raises the question of the spiritual through the carnal. In addition, your suggestion of how desire operates is equally provocati ...
Thanks for taking a look at my post Veronica. I think it's entirely appropriate to think of this documentary as a torture film. The difference here, of course, is that the Badwater participants are willingly subjecting themselves to this brutality, w ...
I certainly do think documentary works differently in this context. I want to acknowledge documentary is not an area of expertise for me, but in thinking about this week's theme I want to suggest that while it may not raise completely different issue ...
Great post Tanya/Tina, as I was reading I was already anticipating your conclusion. So, I'm curious to know what's the larger significance of these marketing practices? As you suggest, they seem to undercut the essence of this cinema, and yet th ...
Hi Kal-- Thanks for the question. I think the question here is one about orientation. I don't mean to suggest athletics as a means to political possibility directly, simply that sport is most often imaged in our culture as a celebration of victory an ...
Hi Elena--thanks for looking at my post, I'll try my best to respond. For me, training must first be understood as separate from performance. Images of sport interest me almost solely for how they deny the spectator the opportunity to witness the lab ...
Thanks Robert--I have in fact not heard of this documentary, and look forward to seeing it soon. I appreciate your rendering of my post, it is in line with my intention and I think you help to work the complication out of it. It is in fact this other side ...
Thought provoking post John, thank you for a good read. Your take on J-Horror has me thinking of it in terms of a "return of the cinematic repressed." And, is it not also interesting how we find the power of the Lumiere's cinema in the pres ...
Jennifer, fascinating post, thank you for bringing this work to my attention. Specifically this is of interest for me concerning, as you state, "generative design." One way I might understand this phrase, perhaps mistakenly, is how confrontation ...
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