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• In Media Res
  Re: Film as an Escape Route: Navigating Cinematic Freedom Under Confinement

  Cinema's liberating potential

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Monday, April 27, 2015 — 12:36 am

  Thank you, Daniel, for leaving us on such an inspiring note with this post about "the enduring power of film." Not to conflate the very real dangers that Panahi faces with more benign modes of censorship and control, I find his way of using rest ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Captive Viewers: Learning In/humanity through Film in 'Dogtooth' and 'The Wolfpack'

  (Hollywood) Violence and Its After Effects

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Monday, April 27, 2015 — 12:17 am

  Thank you both, Daniel and James, for your insightful responses. Indeed it is critical that both 'Dogtooth' and 'The Wolfpack' refer to films that promote, as Daniel notes, masculinist violence. Whereas the father in 'Dogtooth ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Performing Stardom

  Self-Reflexive Performance as Imprimatur of 'Art'

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Wednesday, April 22, 2015 — 2:07 pm

  Fascinating post, James, as indicated by the dynamic discussion that's followed. I would join in by connecting this conversation to our comments about Steven's post, about "art" cinema's use of self-reflexivity to distinguish itse ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “The Self-Referentiality of Backstudio Pictures: The Trailer for A Star Is Born (1937) as Case Study”

  Self-Referential: Not Just for Art Films

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Monday, April 20, 2015 — 10:23 pm

  Thanks, Steven, for starting off the week with this revealing post, a valuable reminder of how the self-referential mode is alive and well in classical Hollywood cinema despite its being used (as you describe) to shore up the illusory fantasy world it con ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Soapy Broads and Quality Gentlemen: The Antiheroine in Top of the Lake

  Family Woman

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Thursday, February 12, 2015 — 2:08 am

  Fascinating post, Bree. 'Top of the Lake' inspired me to search out other female investigator shows, and I would offer up 'Broadchurch' as an instance in which the female protagonist's private life is importantly defined by her fa ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Amy Schumer: Enemy of the Status Quo

  Kudrow's reflexive (anti-)heroism

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Friday, February 13, 2015 — 12:53 am

  Another thought-provoking discussion, Kathleen, and one well-timed to coincide with the release of the trailer for Schumer's debut film 'Trainwreck' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3152624/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), about which I'd be curious to ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “Honest” Nudes: Participatory Cultures and Public Agency in Representing the Body

  Parody vs. Participatory?

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Wednesday, October 8, 2014 — 4:20 am

  Following up on Kris's concluding speculation that attempts to mediate non-idealized bodies might enable profiteering by the "beautification-industrial-complex"...Natalia's post about The Nu Project put me in mind of Dove's ongoin ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Naked For Your Protection: Penetrating Vision in the Security Line

  Seeing Past Race?

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Friday, October 10, 2014 — 12:58 am

  Fascinating post, Kian. It occurs to me that the "burdensome" awareness of how one looks on the outside is, for many people of color, probably felt almost nowhere as strongly today than while awaiting TSA scrutinizing and the racial profiling th ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Jessie Nizewitz, Nude Celebrity Selfies, and Contrasting Discourses of Victim-Blaming

  "Lady parts" vs. "box"

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Tuesday, October 7, 2014 — 2:20 pm

  Thank you, Michael, for pointing out the importance of class bias in these media (and more generally cultural) distinctions between how women are perceived as victims or, alternately, as having "asked for it." Note how even the terms used to ref ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Essence of a Women's Prison: Where Orange Is the New Black Falls Short

  Airbrushing Prison(ers)

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  Friday, March 14, 2014 — 6:55 pm

  Thank you for this fascinating “insider’s” take, Daisy, which made me reflect on the phenomenological limitations of the televisual (or cinematic) medium and how the prison genre attempts (or doesn’t) to get at that “essence” of what prison is actually li ...

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