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English Language and Literature

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2011

Aesthetics

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Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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 …


Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.


All Is True (Henry Viii): The Unbearable Sex Of Henry Viii, Steven Bruhm Dec 2010

All Is True (Henry Viii): The Unbearable Sex Of Henry Viii, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.