Swords, bushido, honor, moral ambiguity, and dazzling fight scenes dance throughout the film 13 Assassin’s by Takashi Miike. 13 Assassin’s production design is a feast for the eyes with elaborate period costumes and hairstyles, beautiful swords, incredible set design, excellent visuals, special effects, and editing. Takashi Miike is a controversial Japanese filmmaker whose filmography […]
Laura Mulvey’s groundbreaking essay, ‘Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema,’ coined the term of “the male gaze” in film and the representation of women as object and spectacle “to-be-looked-at.” Kenneth Mackinnon’s essay, “After Mulvey: Male Erotic Objectification,” discusses the disavowal of how the gaze can be applied to male spectacle in a male-to-male way. Both […]
While most associate a teen film with a John Hughes movie or as something quintessentially American, there are themes about adolescence that are universal within the teen film genre. Indeed, there have been films about gender identity and sexual awakenings from the perspective of a lesbian/bisexual such as in Water Lilies(2007), gay male perspective like […]
“Easter mornin’, sunrise,” muses Robert Eads in a gentlemanly southern drawl, sitting on a lawn chair watching the sun rising over the trees in rural Georgia. A close-up of the profile of Robert’s face shows his tears glistening down his cheek, “I can’t hate’em. I feel sorry for’em.” Southern Comfort (2001), directed, produced, and edited […]
“Queer reception doesn’t stand outside personal and cultural histories; it is part of the articulation of these histories,”(Doty 80). In this paper I will be applying Alexander Doty’s essay, There’s Something Queer Here, to the 1990 Clive Barker film, Nightbreed. There were many elements, subtext, and symbolism within it that I recognized to be very […]
