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Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm
Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm
Department of English Publications
Recently Hollywood has remade a number of movies from the 1970s, movies in which young women are terrorized by a murderer calling from a telephone located elsewhere in the house. In the remakes, the murderer uses a cell phone, which effectively destroys the sense of space and distance on which earlier horror films were predicated. In one way, these films gesture to Jean Baudrillard's idea of “the transparency of evil,” in that they depict the collapse between the speaking self and the technologies of monstrosity against which the self might be defined. In another way, though, the films proliferate sites …
Realism/Terrorism: The Walworth Farce, Kim Solga
Realism/Terrorism: The Walworth Farce, Kim Solga
Department of English Publications
Kim Solga reviews The Walworth Farce – a "farce" in name only – as a play that is actually about the dangerous performatics of memory. As it explores the ways in which the theatre both enables and *dis*ables the drive to remember, it thinks seriously about traumatic re-enactment and the limits of the theatre as a site for such.
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz
Department of English Publications
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