June 2010
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The Progressive Politics of Chainsaws →
Robin Wood is an author who applies psychoanalytic concepts to horror films especially the concept of repression. In his essay An Introduction to the American Horror Film, Wood…
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Manufacturing Desire →
Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen in their book Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness trace the historical imposition of mass media and images on working…
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Revolutionary transformations cannot be accomplished without at the very minimum...
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital (via anticap) (via jhnbrssndn)
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Consuming Signs →
In For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign French theorist Jean Baudrillard attempts to enlarge the scope of Marxism’s critique of capitalist society. Baudrillard adopts…
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The Whiteness of the Child in the Sun →
This short clip from a popular children’s television show titled Teletubbies illustrates British film scholar Richard Dyer’s thinking on “whiteness”. The opening sequence with…
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Watching Monsters →
In her book Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992) Carol Clover challenges the work of feminist theories of film spectatorship grounded in psychoanalysis by…
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