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Erich Kuersten
in issue 65
All Tomorrow's Playground Narratives: Stanley Kubrick's Lolita — "Kubrick's 1961 film is really the first 1970s movie."
Loucheness Unchecked! Universal's Pre-Code Hollywood Collection — "I'm through!"
in issue 64
Desperation and Divinity: "Help us, Mae!" — Hazy thoughts on the transition from real sex to digital hallucinations
Wild Boys and Midnight Maries: Social Realism and Pre-Code in Forbidden Hollywood (Vol. 3) — "We can't help but roll our eyes at a woman who would rather wear holes in her shoes looking for a 'good honest job' than roll around in money and mink."
Books: You'll Like this Film Because You're in It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol, by Michel Gondry
in issue 63
Reflections Through a Golden Nigh: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — "Like Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam, or the Scott brothers Ridley and Tony, Fincher is an auteur-facile, an auteur of illusory depth."
Dizzy from the Altitude, Happy to Plummet: Pre-Code Cinema and the Post-Code-Shock Syndrome — "With so much underhanded conventionalizing, it's easy to forget that once upon a time these social mores were being challenged and disputed, not by our parents but by our grandparents . . ."
Boooks: Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema, by Geneviève Sellier.
in issue 62
An Argento Family Reunion Special: Crying over the Spilled Mother of Tears — Bwaaah!
Boooks: The Impossible David Lynch, by Todd McGowan
in issue 61
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas: How Barton Fink Can Set You Free — "All the world's a hell ten feet square"
What's Your Edition Number? The Replicanting of Blade Runner: Final Cut — "There's a whole postmodern hall of mirrors you can wander through with the idea of a digitally re-colored 'final cut' of a 10-year-old 'director's cut' of a 26-year-old movie."
in issue 59
The Foxy, the Dead, and the Foxier: Re-Visiting Death Proof — "He's old enough to be my dad!"
Naomi Watts: Cinema's Postmodern Mother of Mirrors — "We're home free in the new mediated womb of the Naomi persona — which is to say, trapped, by our own desire."
in issue 56
Fear of Fishing: Closets and Product Placement in Hawks' Man's Favorite Sport? — "The sorrows of narrative immersion are the joys of Brechtian postmodernism ..."
in issue 52
Aural Drag: This Is What It Sounds Like, When Men Cry — Bwaaaaah!
in issue 50
An Unsawed Woman: Re-exhuming The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake on DVD — How Jessica Biel's Moral Hotness Tamed the West
"What It Takes to Make a Softie": Breaking Noir Tradition in The Leopard Man — "Lewton's deep faith in humanity quietly waits for the smoke to settle so it can step in and start patching up the wounds."
