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Re: the question from today’s class (“Does Nick Cave have a sense of humor?”), I present to you the music video for “Nick the Stripper,” a 1981 song recorded by the […]

The narrative of Under the Skin unfolds a lot like the scene from Weekend that we watched last week: we see result after deadly result of the Female’s (as the IMDb refers to her) inhuman machinations before the […]

In our last class I was thinking about a lot of different films, far too many to tie them together in one coherent post. Therefore this post will be a mixed bag of assorted clips, each of them relating to our […]

After our last class when we discussed the Linda Williams essay on “film bodies,” I went back to the section on “Structures of Fantasy.” Williams includes a chart of which categories certain films fall into […]

There was a mention of “positive racism… which is still racism” in class yesterday. One of the most complicated examples of that is Fred […]

In the late 1950s, Anthony Perkins (or “Tony Perkins,” as the teen magazines called him) capitalized on his boy-next-door image by recording a few jazz-pop albums. […]

For the past week I have been thinking about Busby Berkeley and the “I Only Have Eyes for You” scene from Dames (1934). To me it is the ultimate in surreal Busby […]