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The Counterfeit Child, Steven Bruhm
Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness, Steven Bruhm
Cell Phones From Hell, Steven Bruhm
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
Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, Aids, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
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Nightmare On Sesame Street: Or, The Self-Possessed Child, Steven Bruhm
Nightmare On Sesame Street: Or, The Self-Possessed Child, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
The late twentieth century is fascinated by the phenomenon of the gothic child, the child who manifests evil, violence, and sexual aggression. On the face of it, this evil is “caused” by either medical or social factors: medicinal drugs, radiation, or the corrupting influences of political others. However, this essay argues that the gothic child actually arises from conflicting forces of child-philosophies, the intersection of Romantic childhood innocence with Freudian depth models. These models tacitly point to a child that “is” rather than “is made”, a child that belies contemporary parental attempts to make it be otherwise. Moreover, the idea …
Gothic Sexualities, Steven Bruhm
Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm
Picture This: Stephen King’S Queer Gothic, Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.