Poor Things Playing God in this Yorgos Lanthimos original film, Willem Dafoe plays s a cross between Dr. Frankenstein and the mad scientist’s monster. His crudely stitched facial scars (kudos to make up artists) belie a childhood of cruel experimentation. Decades later, the benign Godwin Baxter continues his father’s research, reanimating a fully grown woman […]

Narrative Structure The tale is divided into a prologue and three parts (my division) Prologue: Chase The incident that precipitates Scottie’s Vertigo Part 1: Scottie consents to watch over Madelene, following her wherever she goes and gradually falling for her. Part 2: Madeleine’s attempted suicide; Scottie’s rescuing her; development of relationship, which end with her […]

Woman in the Dunes, by Hiroshi Teshigahara: Severe yet sensual movie about man and woman trapped in a sandpit.

Rebecca (1940): Hitchcock’s Thriller, Deconstructing Two Marriages, Female Subjectivity, Female Sexuality, Lesbianism (Latent, Manifest) Narrative Structure: Three Parts Part1: Monte Carlo Part 2: Manderley Hitchcock Motifs: Tyranny of the past House Vs. Home Ocean/Water Fire   Genres: Gothic romance Film Noir Suspense/Thriller Domestic Melodrama   British Input: Source material: Daphne du Maurier Setting: British Estate, […]

Rather than eschew political engagement with democratic theorizing, Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.