Category: Volume 28 – Number 1 – September 2017
Notes on Contributors
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James Belflower is Teaching Assistant Professor at Siena College. As a poet/critic, his current research and creative projects employ artistic models to investigate how we mingle with matter. His most recent book is the multimedia project Canyons (Flimb Press 2016) with Matthew Klane. Past projects include The Posture of Contour (Spring Gun Press 2013) and […]
To Save Materialism from Itself
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Tano S. Posteraro (bio)Penn State University A review of Grosz, Elizabeth. The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism. New York: Columbia UP, 2017. “Materialism” functions today as an obligatory academic shibboleth. Against the somatophobia of the Western philosophical canon, many consider this a welcome relief. Elizabeth Grosz has herself done much to emphasize […]
The Swarming of Mimesis
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Nidesh Lawtoo (bio)KU Leuven A review of Connolly, William. Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Duke UP, 2017. Despite—or rather because of—the cosmic scope of William Connolly’s latest book, Facing the Planetary does not propose a reflection on universal, transcendental ideas about what the planetary condition is, or should be. Nor […]
Inherent Enchantments
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Tracy Lassiter (bio)University of New Mexico-Gallup A review of Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman. U of Minnesota P, 2015. Stone is a book to engage with on one of those days: a day when something happens to make you feel your age, or when a series of mundanities is sufficient to […]
Audiences, Publics, Speech. A review of Adair Rounthwaite, Asking the Audience:Participatory Art in 1980s New York
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Martin Harries (bio)University of California Irvine A review of Rounthwaite, Adair. Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York. U of Minnesota P, 2017. Audiences speak. This assumption is essential to the method and to the argument of Adair Rounthwaite’s Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York, and around that assumption the […]
On Media and Mortality
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Carol Colatrella (bio)Georgia Institute of Technology A review of O’Gorman, Marcel. Necromedia. U of Minnesota P, 2015. My engagement with information technology encompasses necessity and distraction. Times I am frustrated by my inability to stop engaging with social media alternate with periods of appreciation for technical capacities to increase my productivity and to be aware […]
The Unsettled Surface of the Document:Seams, Erosion, and After-images in Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust
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James Belflower (bio)Siena College Abstract The psychoanalytic trope of “unsettlement” in American postmodern documentary poetry typically aims to narrate the emotional intractability of historical records into an impasse: a position of emotional unintelligibility designed to interrupt a reader’s conventional modes of empathic identification with trauma. However, the affective dimension of this impasse—and its capacity to […]
X-Ray (1981), the Final Woman, and the Medical Slasher Film
October 15, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 28, Number 1, September 2017 |
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Murray Leeder (bio)University of Calgary Abstract This essay discusses the declining academic and continued popular currency of Carol J. Clover’s concept of the Final Girl, and examines the term through X-Ray or Hospital Massacre (1981), a film of the first slasher cycle with a more mature protagonist than most. It extends Clover’s ideas by showing […]
The Final Girl at the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Politics of Saving and Surviving in Undocumented (2010)
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Lucia Mulherin Palmer (bio)University of Texas at Austin Abstract In the torture porn film Undocumented (Chris Peckover, 2010), protagonist Liz is a character descended from Carol J. Clover’s Final Girl—she is forced to watch the torture and murder of her peers, while her wit and resilience help her survive. However, the body count surrounding Liz […]
Revisiting the Final Girl Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards
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Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (bio)University of Barcelona Stacy Rusnak (bio)Georgia Gwinnett College Autumn of 2017 marks thirty years since the publication of Carol J. Clover’s “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film.” The most enduring premise of this essay—which was originally included in the special issue Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy in the journal Representations and later […]