Resources for September 5, 2017

Carter, David. "The Climb to The Holy Mountain." A Place for Film (September 5, 2017)

Cassidy, Brendan, et al. "Alien, Aliens, Alien 3." InSession Film #221 (May 15, 2017)

Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: David Cronenberg (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (October 28, 2013)

---. "The Auteurs: David Cronenberg (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 30, 2013)

Hancock, James, Matthew Modine and Adam Rackoff. Matthew Modine and the 30th Anniversary of Full Metal Jacket." Wrong Reel #286 (June 2017)

Hart, David and Samantha Sanders. "Pride and Prejudice and Judgment." Pop Culture Case Study #265 (August 31, 2017)

Holmlund, Chris, et al. "Female Trouble." Cinematary (September 1, 2017)

Rich, B. Ruby, et al. "Film & Media in a Time of Repression: Practices & Aesthetics of Resistance." Film Quarterly (February 24, 2017)

Williams, Douglas E. "Ideology as Dystopia: An Interpretation of Blade Runner." International Political Science Review 9.4 (1988): 381-394. ["Film and other forms of popular culture place enormously powerful tools at the disposal of students of politics and society. This paper analyses -an aesthetically complex, philosophically disturbing and ideologically ambivalent cinematic dystopia of a few years ago, Blade Runner. Unlike the vast majority of films in the science fiction genre, Blade Runner refuses to neutralize the most abhorrent tendencies of our age and casts serious doubt on a host of the cliches about where we should locate their causes. Among the most significant questions it challenges us to confront are: In what does the "truly human" consist? Does the concept of imitating "truly human" beings retain any coherence once the feasibility of designing "more human than human" robots becomes an increasingly imaginable technological possibility? What might relations between the sexes and family life become if the twin eventuality of an uninhabitable earth and the perfection of robotic technologies should come about? While political theorists are asking themselves, "What and where should political theory be now?", this paper contends that at least part of their time should be spent at the cinema, deep in thought and imagination."]