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Adorno, Beckett…Wagner, Artaud: Reflections On Stefan Sorgner’S Philosophy Of Posthuman Art, Russell Kilbourn
Adorno, Beckett…Wagner, Artaud: Reflections On Stefan Sorgner’S Philosophy Of Posthuman Art, Russell Kilbourn
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
This essay reflects on the question of posthuman(ist) art by way of Stefan Sorgner’s book, Philosophy of Posthuman Art, which makes an important initial contribution to the nascent investigation of the significance of creative and imaginative expression from a critical posthumanist perspective. From the understanding that we cannot (yet) do without the subject as ground of the self, I elaborate a theory of the dynamic ‘subjective trinity’ (self, other, and transcendent subject) underpinning the occidental aesthetic experience construed in visual-spatial terms, exemplified in the cinema. From this basis I explore two possible avenues of posthumanist aesthetic expression: First, the secular …
Film Review: È Stata La Mano Di Dio / The Hand Of God By Paolo Sorrentino, Russell J A Kilbourn
Film Review: È Stata La Mano Di Dio / The Hand Of God By Paolo Sorrentino, Russell J A Kilbourn
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Reflections On Posthumanism: In The Beginning, The Face., Russell J A Kilbourn
Reflections On Posthumanism: In The Beginning, The Face., Russell J A Kilbourn
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Introducing Interconnections, Christine Daigle, Russell J A Kilbourn
Introducing Interconnections, Christine Daigle, Russell J A Kilbourn
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Border Crossings, Watery Spaces, And The (Un)Verified Self In Middlesex, Jenny Kerber
Border Crossings, Watery Spaces, And The (Un)Verified Self In Middlesex, Jenny Kerber
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
Kerber traces the ways in which water liberates and transforms various characters in Middlesex in order to critique and complicate water’s taken-for-granted liberatory powers. Kerber invites us to consider the majority of those for whom water is as deadly as it is (possibly) emancipating, especially those most vulnerable to climate change and other ecological and violent upheavals.
Romantic Ramblings, Revisited: Eco-Logics Of Mobility In Sina Queyra's Expressway, Jenny Kerber
Romantic Ramblings, Revisited: Eco-Logics Of Mobility In Sina Queyra's Expressway, Jenny Kerber
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Ageing In Action: Hollywood’S Ageing Ensemble Action Hero Series, Philippa Gates
Ageing In Action: Hollywood’S Ageing Ensemble Action Hero Series, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
This paper explores the treatment of ageing in the ensemble action hero series RED (2010 and 2013) starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren and The Expendables (2010, 2012, and 2014) starring Sylvester Stallone and other 1980s action stars. These two series combine action with comedy to thematize two sets of issues in relation ageing—first, about competence and usefulness and, second, about meaningful relationships. In the RED series, these two overarching concerns are linked explicitly to ageing whereas, in the Expendables films, these concerns replace those about ageing. In other words, the Expendables series mainly ignores ageing and presents its heroes …
Crossing America’S Borders: Chinese Immigrants In The Southwesterns Of The 1920s And 1930s, Philippa Gates
Crossing America’S Borders: Chinese Immigrants In The Southwesterns Of The 1920s And 1930s, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
Today, when we think of the film Western, we think of a genre dominated by Anglo-American heroes conquering the various struggles and obstacles that the nineteenth-century frontier presented to settlers and gunslingers alike—from the daunting terrain and inclement environment of deserts, mountains, and plains to the violent opposition posed by cattle ranchers and Native Americans. What we tend to forget, most likely because the most famous Westerns of the last seventy-five years also forgot, is that Chinese immigrants played an important role in that frontier history. As Edward Buscombe confirms, “[g]iven the importance of their contribution, particularly to the construction …
Border Insecurity: Reading Transnational Environments In Jim Lynch’S Border Songs, Jenny Kerber
Border Insecurity: Reading Transnational Environments In Jim Lynch’S Border Songs, Jenny Kerber
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
This article applies an eco-critical approach to contemporary American fiction about the Canada-US border, examining Jim Lynch’s portrayal of the British Columbia-Washington borderlands in his 2009 novel Border Songs. It argues that studying transnational environmental actors in border texts—in this case, marijuana, human migrants, and migratory birds—helps illuminate the contingency of political boundaries, problems of scale, and discourses of risk and security in cross-border regions after 9/11. Further, it suggests that widening the analysis of trans-border activity to include environmental phenomena productively troubles concepts of nature and regional belonging in an era of climate change and economic globalization. Cet …
Caribou, Petroleum, And The Limits Of Locality In The Canada–Us Borderlands, Jenny Kerber
Caribou, Petroleum, And The Limits Of Locality In The Canada–Us Borderlands, Jenny Kerber
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
his article discusses Karsten Heuer’s 2006 book Being Caribou in light of debates in ecocriticism and border studies about how to define the local in the context of environmental problems of vast range and uncertain temporality. It explores how Heuer’s book about following the Porcupine Caribou herd’s migration engages in multiple forms of boundary crossing—between countries, between hemispheric locations, and between species—and shows how insights from Indigenous storytelling complicate the book’s appeal to environmentalist readers by asserting a prior, transnational Indigenous presence in the transboundary landscapes of present-day Alaska and the Yukon.
Remediating The Past: Doing “Periodical Studies” In The Digital Era, Maria Dicenzo
Remediating The Past: Doing “Periodical Studies” In The Digital Era, Maria Dicenzo
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Adopting Readers’ Advisory Practices In The Academic Library, Pauline Dewan
Adopting Readers’ Advisory Practices In The Academic Library, Pauline Dewan
Library Publications
No abstract provided.
“You Are Turning Into A Hive Mind”: Storytelling, Ecological Thought, And The Problem Of Form In Generation A, Jenny Kerber
“You Are Turning Into A Hive Mind”: Storytelling, Ecological Thought, And The Problem Of Form In Generation A, Jenny Kerber
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
This article discusses the relationship between literary form and contemporary ecological anxiety in Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation A. Coupland’s speculative fiction envisions a possible future in the wake of Colony Collapse Disorder, but the more generalized eco-anxiety the novel explores is applicable to a number of contemporary environmental issues ranging from climate change to ocean acidification. I argue that Coupland’s novel invites readers to consider the problem of representing ecological problems characterized by global scale, temporal uncertainty, and multiple origins. I then explore how Coupland responds to these challenges by stretching form in two directions. First, he juxtaposes and …
The Assimilated Asian American As American Action Hero: Anna May Wong, Keye Luke, And James Shigeta In The Classical Hollywood Detective Film, Philippa Gates
The Assimilated Asian American As American Action Hero: Anna May Wong, Keye Luke, And James Shigeta In The Classical Hollywood Detective Film, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Camera Arriving At The Station: Cinematic Memory As Cultural Memory, Russell J A Kilbourn
Camera Arriving At The Station: Cinematic Memory As Cultural Memory, Russell J A Kilbourn
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
This paper explores the modern metropolis as an ironically concrete metaphor for the collective memory and the mourning of cinema’s passing, as it—the “city”—is digitally constructed in two recent, auteur-directed, special effects-driven blockbuster films, Inception and Hugo. The modern city, and mass media, such as the cinema, as well as modes of mass transport, especially the train, all originate in the 19th century, but come into their own in the early 20th century in their address to a subject as the mobilised citizen-consumer who, as Anne Friedberg makes clear, is also always a viewer. Additionally, as Barbara Mennel has recently …
The Asian Renovation Of Biracial Buddy Action: Negotiating Globalization In The Millennial Hollywood Cop Action Film, Philippa Gates
The Asian Renovation Of Biracial Buddy Action: Negotiating Globalization In The Millennial Hollywood Cop Action Film, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Markus Zisselsberger, Ed. The Undiscover’D Country: W. G. Sebald And The Poetics Of Travel. Rochester: Camden House, 2010. 390 Pp., Russell J A Kilbourn
Markus Zisselsberger, Ed. The Undiscover’D Country: W. G. Sebald And The Poetics Of Travel. Rochester: Camden House, 2010. 390 Pp., Russell J A Kilbourn
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Pressing The Public: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Periodicals And “The Press”, Maria Dicenzo
Pressing The Public: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Periodicals And “The Press”, Maria Dicenzo
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Pulling Up Roots: Border-Crossing And Migrancy On Southern Alberta’S Irrigation Frontier, Jenny Kerber
Pulling Up Roots: Border-Crossing And Migrancy On Southern Alberta’S Irrigation Frontier, Jenny Kerber
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Hunger, History, And The Shape Of Awkward Questions: Reading Sarah Klassen’S Simone Weil As Mennonite Text, Tanis Macdonald
Hunger, History, And The Shape Of Awkward Questions: Reading Sarah Klassen’S Simone Weil As Mennonite Text, Tanis Macdonald
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Acting His Age?: The Resurrection Of The 80s Action Heroes And Their Aging Stars, Philippa Gates
Acting His Age?: The Resurrection Of The 80s Action Heroes And Their Aging Stars, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Maritorious Melodrama: Film Noir With A Female Detective, Philippa Gates
The Maritorious Melodrama: Film Noir With A Female Detective, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
Feminist critics tend to disagree whether the parachuting of women into traditionally male roles—for example, that of detective—results in a feminist representation. The female detective of the 1930s, however, can be seen to offer a decidedly positive feminist hero in that she defies the stereotype of the “masculine” (i.e. unnatural) woman—especially when one considers the time in which she appeared and representations of female detectives in contemporary film. Despite popular conceptions of classical film, Hollywood did offer progressive representations of working women, ironically in the decade characterized by economic and social upheaval during the Depression. The prolific female detective of …
Icyireze In Rwanda Fifteen Years Post-Genocide, Madelaine Hron
Icyireze In Rwanda Fifteen Years Post-Genocide, Madelaine Hron
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Itsembabwoko ‘À La Française’? Rwanda, Fiction And The Franco-African Imaginary, Madelaine Hron
Itsembabwoko ‘À La Française’? Rwanda, Fiction And The Franco-African Imaginary, Madelaine Hron
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
This article explores the literary representation of the genocide in Rwanda, and by extension, that of the Franco-African imaginary. Since the horrific events in 1994, “Rwanda” has become a discursive epiphenomenon, be it in global human rights, African or francophone contexts. Literary works about itsembabwoko, mostly published in France, now represent both a varied and a substantial corpus in Francophone literature. Problematically, however, France played a critical, if not insidious, role in the 1994 Tutsi genocide. This paper therefore examines to what extent Francophone literature about Rwanda is shaped by French politics. Specifically, it contrasts Franco-African texts produced as part …
Improvising Chicago, Tamas Dobozy
Improvising Chicago, Tamas Dobozy
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
d, 7(1):101-127 (provide link). Reproduced with permission.
The Three Sam Spades: The Shifting Model Of American Masculinity In The Three Films Of The Maltese Falcon, Philippa Gates
The Three Sam Spades: The Shifting Model Of American Masculinity In The Three Films Of The Maltese Falcon, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon—starring the quintessential hard-boiled private detective, Sam Spade—was adapted for the screen not once, but three times: The Maltese Falcon (also known as Dangerous Female) directed by Roy Del Ruth (US, 1931); Satan Met a Lady directed by William Dieterle (US, 1936); and The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston (US, 1941).1 It is the last of these films, according to critics, that follows the novel most closely and is the version Hammett liked best, although he had no direct involvement with the production of any of the three films. And it is …
Torture Goes Pop! : Screening The Praxis Of Torture In Films & On Tv, Madelaine Hron
Torture Goes Pop! : Screening The Praxis Of Torture In Films & On Tv, Madelaine Hron
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Fighting The Good Fight: The Real And The Moral In The Contemporary Hollywood Combat Film, Philippa Gates
Fighting The Good Fight: The Real And The Moral In The Contemporary Hollywood Combat Film, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Always A Partner In Crime: Black Masculinity In The Hollywood Detective Film, Philippa Gates
Always A Partner In Crime: Black Masculinity In The Hollywood Detective Film, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Man’S Film: Woo And The Pleasures Of Male Melodrama, Philippa Gates
The Man’S Film: Woo And The Pleasures Of Male Melodrama, Philippa Gates
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.