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Erich Kuersten
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."
