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Editor’s Note: Home

kiva reardon — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:15:00 +0000

“You think you had it rough? I didn’t find this place, I had to build it.” -Vienna (Joan Crawford), Johnny Guitar The word “home” conjures images of an ethereal space, with pies on windowsills and white lace curtains blowing in the breeze. It’s where the heart is. Yet as Vienna reminds us in Nicholas Ray’s […]

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Housekeeping and Other Feudalisms: An Interview with Athina Rachel Tsangari

kiva reardon — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:12:34 +0000

Profiles inherently require attempts at classification. In the case of cinema, directors, stars, and their films are most frequently fitted into tidy categories of genre and nationality in order to place them in relation to a broader, exterior context. It is an attempt to point to where they came from—their homes, as it were—in order […]

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Empty Hearths: Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights

andrew gilbert — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:12:06 +0000

For admirers of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film adaptation may seem like blasphemy. In a deft auteurist move, Arnold excises all traces of the supernatural that have defined the source text as a masterpiece of gothic literature. This, however, is not a cynical modern update aiming to appease a secular […]

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She’s Lost Control, Again: Todd Haynes’s Safe

mallory andrews — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:11:31 +0000

“I love you. I love you. I really love you. I love you.” Carol White (Julianne Moore) stares into a mirror, repeating this phrase to her reflection in the final shot of Todd Haynes’s 1995 film Safe. This dénouement comes as Carol’s final offensive blow against the debilitating and unexplained “environmental illness” that has suddenly […]

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Homeland Insecurity: Kathleen Shannon’s Working Mothers

adam cook — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:10:56 +0000

Operating within the narrow margin afforded to it, The National Film Board of Canada has produced a considerable number of the country’s most impressive films and filmmakers, particularly throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, when several bold initiatives yielded technologically progressive and socially engaged films. Many of these fell under the umbrella of the Challenge […]

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Female Homelessness in Agnès Varda’s Vagabond and Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy

tina hassannia — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:10:31 +0000

In contemporary North America, female homelessness remains largely an invisible phenomenon. Out of sight, women are also proverbially out of mind, which silently suggests that economic and sociological constraints don’t affect women in the same radical manner as men; that women aren’t displaced, forced to relocate for work, or faced with precarious housing. Two films—with […]

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The Analog Mother: Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion

lindsay jensen — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:09:55 +0000

The cabin is well worn, but one gets the feeling this is due to the age of its materials, rather than the use it has had over the years. A record player cracks and pops, and the lilting wail of Jimmy Page fills the air as a flannel-clad man dribbles and shoots a basketball at […]

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vol. 1, issue 2: home

cléo journal — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:04:44 +0000

After a consideration of flesh and the body in film, for our second installment we are interested in the ways space is rendered both onscreen and off. The topic of home is an opportunity to critically engage with gendered spaces. This may include issues of class privilege and domesticity, home as a genre’d space in […]

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