Film Category
“No Women Amongst Us” – Bare Life, Violence, And Gender in Byzantium (Jared Lacy)
This article is republished from The New Polis, Dec. 23, 2019. Neil Jordan’s film Byzantium (2012), which tells the story of a pair of mother/daughter vampires on the run from a male-only secret society of vampires known as Brotherhood, has been widely read as a feminist approach to the literary convention of…
Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 2 (Gavin Hurley)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. The article is published simultaneously with Religious Theory. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science fiction? The distinction can be distilled down to the genre’s affect of fear.…
Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 1 (Gavin Hurley)
The following is the first installment of a two-part series. The article is published simultaneously with Religious Theory. Catholic horror—horror fiction that integrates Catholic perspectives into the fiction itself—is often be seen by Catholics to be incompatible with the mission of the religion. These skeptics argue that popular culture media…
The Curse Of La Llorona, Part 3 (Bernadette Calafell And Stefanie Fajardo)
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second is here. Post/Colonialism in the Film There are not only unequal and exploitative relationships between men and women in The Curse of La Llorona, the relationship between whiteness and Mexican bodies and culture…
The Curse Of La Llorona, Part 2 (Bernadette Calafell And Stefanie Fajardo)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Patricia represents elements of La Malinche and a becoming of La Llorona through her desperation and subjugation. In the beginning of the film, Patricia and her two sons are introduced as having a long…
The Curse Of La Llorona, Part 1 (Bernadette Calafell And Stefanie Fajardo)
La Llorona as the Space for Discourse Surrounding Colonialism and Motherhood The American psyche is currently saturated with images of children in cages at the southern border and discussions about women’s reproduction and sexual rights. Immigration and women’s bodily autonomy are issues that were a polarizing force in the 2016…
Something To Do With A Girl Named Marla – Eros And Gender In Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Part 3 (Vernon Cisney)
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second is here. Something to Do With a Girl Named Marla The most significant shortcoming of Tyler’s pure yang energy, however, resides in the fact that it is powerless or unable to love. As…
Something To Do With A Girl Named Marla – Eros And Gender In Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Part 2 (Vernon Cisney)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. This interaction prompts the narrator’s first visit to a support group for men with testicular cancer, most of whom had lost their testicles. Here too, we learn a great deal more about the nature…
Something To Do With A Girl Named Marla – Eros And Gender In Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Part 1 (Vernon Cisney)
The following is the first installment of a three-part series. A way that can be walked is not The Way A name that can be named is not The Name —Tao Te Ching, Verse 1 The first rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club.The second rule…
James Bond And Jack Sparrow – Literary Archetypes Of Contrasting Economic Eras (Marianne Kimura)
Commander James Bond and Captain Jack Sparrow. Both are British. Both are fictional characters. Both are heroes. Both are clever. Both appeal to the opposite sex. Both are good-looking, quick with comebacks, original in their approaches to adversity, and adroit with weapons. Both are seemingly mesmerizing to movie audiences and…