by Stuart Frazer Aliens’ (Cameron, 1986, United States) titles begins differently, but echoes the aesthetic connotations of the original film, the blue light emerges dully on the screen, with several blue lines coming into focus as the letters spell out ‘ALIENS’ upon the screen, but the I again becomes sapphic, it’s imagery emphatic, extending further … Continue reading Sex & the Saga: Aliens
Does Todd Haynes demystify the popular music artists he may otherwise mythologize? by Stuart Frazer Todd Haynes’ uses progressive fictional representation of musical artists for the basis of his films; From his unauthorised retelling of the life of Karen Carpenter with the use of Barbie dolls in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes. 1987. … Continue reading Todd Haynes & his musicians.
A Sapphic blue “I” appears on the screen cutting through the space of the background.
Shivers is one of Cronenberg’s first feature length horror films and from the start the director was dealing with very visceral and bloody body horror images as well as strong sexual violence
David Cronenberg’s films often seem on the surface to be rather simplistic gore or horror films, for example The Fly in which Seth Brundle’s monstrous half-fly, half-human body
I'm going to have to admit that this was the first time I'd watched it having had only four TV channels as a child but I found myself watching a 90s cartoon that was referencing the animus, Camille Paglia and Susan Faludi and dealing with mental illness, trauma and Feminism in a really surprisingly nuanced way.
Single fatherhood threatens the multifaceted and often contradictory framework against which Korean masculinity is measured.
Doing a PhD that focuses upon creative art, I’m often asked: ‘What’s the point?’ In a world of terrifying injustice, in the face of unbearable pain, what good is art?
Thoughts on costume in performance art.
I love a cover version, I don’t know why really, I have several playlists on Spotify endlessly listing, the good, the bad and the weird cover version their catalogue has to offer. So here is a list of cover versions featured in films, from strange reinterpretations to switching the language completely. It either has to add to the film or just be bloody good.
Punk Academia. 