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1997

Film Studies

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"Another Being We Have Created Called 'Us'": Point-Of-View, Melancholia, And The Joking Unconscious In The Bridges Of Madison County, Walter C. Metz Apr 1997

"Another Being We Have Created Called 'Us'": Point-Of-View, Melancholia, And The Joking Unconscious In The Bridges Of Madison County, Walter C. Metz

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This essay reads Clint Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County (1995) as a radical adaptation of Robert James Waller's novel. The piece uses three methods--close aesthetic analysis, Freudian melancholia theory, and Freudian joke theory--to unravel the films' deconstruction of Waller's lachrymose novel.


"Keep The Coffee Hot, Hugo": Nuclear Trauma In Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953), Walter C. Metz Apr 1997

"Keep The Coffee Hot, Hugo": Nuclear Trauma In Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953), Walter C. Metz

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This essay uses nuclear criticism, particularly Jacques Derrida's "No Apocalypse, Not Now" to read Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953) as a Cold War allegory concerned with the threat to civilization posed by atomic culture.