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Erich Kuersten

Eric Kuersten lives in New York City and is the student advisor to the writing major at Pratt Institute. His writing credits include Scarlet Street, Midnight Marquee, Popmatters.com, The Acidemic Film Journal, and Muze. Contact him at Email Erich.

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."