The Way Mulattas Make Me Feel: Michael Jackson’s Domination of the Feminized Other
Abdel Shakur offers a reading of Michael Jackson’s music video “The Way You Make Me Feel” that exposes cultural stereotypes about biracial women.
Abdel Shakur offers a reading of Michael Jackson’s music video “The Way You Make Me Feel” that exposes cultural stereotypes about biracial women.
A few thoughts and remainders after seeing La nana (The Maid).
In this poem by Adam Falkner, an awkward teenager endlessly practices his Michael Jackson dance moves.
I have a deep and abiding aversion to the noxious stuff that streams into our homes every day, gushing through cables and flooding into living rooms, family rooms, bedrooms. Trance-inducing, rigidly structured around sales pitches. Story arcs that never land, like endless transcontinental flights that only pretend to have a destination, suspended mid-air by continual complications – whether mundane or melodramatic – until such time as certain contracts fail to be renewed and the exhausted shell of a thing comes crashing to the ground at last. . . .
“Is American cinema imperialist? In a word, YES,” says Facets Multimedia founder Milos Stehnlik in his regular commentary this week for Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program. Over-simplified characters and cartoonish plot-resolution lead to an eye-for-an-eye philosophy where conflict is resolved by the gratuitous use of excessive force. In the tried and true good-guy versus bad-guy […]
It’s easy to see why John Huston wanted so badly to make a film of this story, and why he treated it as sacred text. Another filmmaker who seemed to treat his sports car as sacred and not much else, Roberto Rossellini, gleefully pilfered The Dead and wove it into a film which, unlike Huston’s, translates Joyce’s epiphanous power into cinema.
Paul Jaussen reviews Žižek and Milbank’s THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST.
As the fall winds along, and the summer recedes into the past, the furor over the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s embattled film program gradually diminishes. And, yet, the museum, which is the largest of its kind west of the Mississippi River, and which has had a vibrant film program for more than forty […]
On Twitter, Anne Thompson pointed to an L.A. Times article about Netflix preparing for possible new restrictions by studios that keep rental outlets from being able to rent new DVD releases until several weeks after they go on sale. The studios, of course, hope to boost DVD sales. But Netflix is okay with this: While […]