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Archive for February 2008

Channeling the Gaze

In media on 28 February 2008 with no comments

Vanity Fair is running a series of photos of current Hollywood stars in classic, iconic moments from Hitchcock’s oeuvre here. Having just taught Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” in my undergrad critical theory course, I was struck by the refashioning of the male gaze. And of course, Jodie Foster models for The Birds.

Best Hair Ever

In blog on 28 February 2008 with no comments

Trying to come up with a first post is always the joy of a blog. It’s like composing a masterpiece, tracing a subject from A-Z and only ending up at R. It’s the dense blank of fog over Silent Hill that hides the design imperfections with the possibility of atmosphere. And then, there’s this post. […]