Author Archives: teeth-beneath
Noiring LA: Mildred Pierce, The Reckless Moment, and Reinforcing Postwar Suburban Gender Roles
Tropics of Meta “Often like a ghost in the shadows, the mother haunts film noir,” observed Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo in 2003. “She is mentioned but never seen, yet […]
Some quick thoughts on concepts
Originally posted on Intra-Being:
A fascinating conversation has been unfolding between Adam of Knowledge Ecology and Mike of Archive Fire about the ontology of concepts. You can follow up on…
The Crowd and the Collective: Some Speculative Points
B.A. in English: Majors & Minors
Originally posted on the / teeth / beneath:
Right about now, during the back half of the semester, I normally panic. My throat pulses and numbs, and my gut tingles–both reactions, I’m…
Re: Dakota Johnson in ”Fifty Shades of Gray”
Originally posted on the / teeth / beneath:
(Text Message Amalgam:) 50 shades of Grey Was awful. It was so over acted Like Days of Our Lives bad Srsly. Direct quote: “I like…
Phenomenological Containers
Originally posted on the / teeth / beneath:
All we really are: containers for memories. Some change and some bend into others; others haunt us with the sharpest clarity; others pretend to…
Rom-Com Existentialism: Identity-formation in Jonze’s “Adaptation” & Ellis’ “The Rules of Attraction”
Originally posted on the / teeth / beneath:
In her book about Romantic Comedies, Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, Tamar McDonald contends, “By withholding the revelation of the man’s deceit, the…
“Simply…not…there”: Alienation in “American Psycho” vis-à-vis Lacan & Marx
Originally posted on the / teeth / beneath:
The 2000 movie American Psycho is one of the most misunderstood and debated movies in cinema history because of its social, linguistic, gender, existential,…
“Glengarry Glen Ross” via Marx: The Elusive Capital of “The Intellectual Ruling Force”
Originally posted on the / teeth / beneath:
In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, we find a powerful social commentary that offers a bleak outlook on the wage laborer, the proletariat, as Marx…