
Kim Novak and the allure of classic American cinema
The Manufactured Gaze and Its Willing Subjects You are sitting in the dark and something happens to your body before your mind catches up. The

The Manufactured Gaze and Its Willing Subjects You are sitting in the dark and something happens to your body before your mind catches up. The

The Weight of the Unheard Score You are sitting in the dark and something is happening to your chest. Not the images — the images

The Screen as a Moral Frontier You are sitting in a theater in 1931, and the woman on the screen is doing something you were

The Samurai as National Mythology You have seen the image so many times you no longer notice it is an image: a lone figure on

The Grammar of Stillness You are watching a hallway. Not through it, not toward anything waiting at the end of it — just the hallway

The Confession That Changes Nothing You stand in the middle of a conversation you’ve rehearsed a hundred times, and when the words finally come out

The Tattooed Body as Social Contract You are kneeling on a tatami mat that has absorbed decades of incense and silence, and the needle has

The Face That Refused Heroism You are watching a man who should not be there. Not by the logic of the screen, not by the

The Body in the Karst: Materiality of a Mass Atrocity You are standing at the edge of a hole in the ground, and the ground

The Juridical Invention of Atrocity You are standing in a courtroom that was built for the occasion, in a city chosen because it still had

The Constructivist Moment as Rupture You are standing in front of a poster and something is wrong with you, though you cannot name it yet.

The Factory Floor as Political Ontology You clock in before the sun has finished rising, and for the next eight hours your hands belong to
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