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Love Me, John C. Lyden
Love Me, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Love Me (2024), directed by Sam Zuchero and Andy Zuchero.
Divinity, Dereck Daschke
Divinity, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Divinity (2023), directed by Eddie Alcazar.
Dual, John C. Lyden
Dual, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Dual (2021), directed by Riley Stearns.
Maika, John C. Lyden
Maika, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Maika (2022), directed by Ham Tran.
Ultrainocencia, William L. Blizek
Ultrainocencia, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Ultrainocencia (2020), directed by Manuel Ariza.
Ad Vitam, J. Barton Scott
Ad Vitam, J. Barton Scott
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Ad Vitam (2018), directed by Thomas Calley.
Cloud Atlas’ Queer Tiki Kitsch: Polynesians, Settler Colonialism, And Sci-Fi Film, Gabriel S. Estrada
Cloud Atlas’ Queer Tiki Kitsch: Polynesians, Settler Colonialism, And Sci-Fi Film, Gabriel S. Estrada
Journal of Religion & Film
Polynesian theories of film reception, visual sovereignty, feminisms, and worldview offer critical insights into The Wachowskis' and Tykwer's 2012 film Cloud Atlas. From Indigenous and Native feminist film perspectives, Cloud Atlas offers a sci-fi future deeply entrenched in the queer tiki kitsch of settler colonialism as situated within a comparative context of other queer Indigenous film. As an example of heteropatriarchal settler colonialism, the Cloud Atlas plot supports the heterosexual triumphs of cross-racial couples and sublimates the possibilities of transgender reincarnation. Although Cloud Atlas attempts to critique Christian slavery and defend a secular abolitionist stance in the 1848 South Pacific, …