Dialogic Cinephilia - November 2, 2017

"100 years ago, a forgotten Soviet revolution in LGBTQ rights: Review of Dan Healey’s book, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia." Monthly Review (October 30, 2017)

Aguiar, Chris and David Hart. "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Rejection." Pop Culture Case Study #247 (June 28, 2017)

Bures, Frank, et al. "Dispatches From the Ruins: Why do we crave the awful futures of apocalyptic fiction?" Aeon (May 16, 2017) ["In the first two decades of the new millennium, stories of the post-apocalypse have permeated pop culture, from books such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) and Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) to films and TV programmes such as The Walking Dead (2010-), the Hunger Games series (2012-15) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). While post-apocalyptic fictions of previous eras largely served as cautionary tales – against nuclear brinksmanship in On the Beach(1959) or weaponised biology in The Stand (1978) – today’s versions of these tales depict less alterable, more oblique and diffuse visions of our doom. So why can’t we seem to get enough of humanity’s unavoidable collapse and its bleak aftermath? "]

Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jean Vigo." Cinema Axis (July 3, 2014)

Gerwig, Greta. "Lady Bird." The Close-Up (November 1, 2017) ["One of the audience favorites at this year’s New York Film Festival was Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut, Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Tracy Letts, which begins its official theatrical run this weekend. During the festival, Gerwig joined film critic Thelma Adams for one of our NYFF Live talks. She discussed her approach to working with actors, her love of Chantal Akerman, how she knew she belonged behind the camera, and more."]








Koski, Genevieve, et al. "The Graduate (1967) / The Meyerowitz Stories (Part 1)." The Next Picture Show #100 (October 31, 2017)

---. "The Graduate (1967) / The Meyerowitz Stories (Part 2)." The Next Picture Show (November 2, 2017)

McFarland, Carey. "American History X (1998)." Philosophical Films (ND)

Rivas, T.J. "Cinematic Responses to Fascism." Film History and Aesthetics Wiki (A Project of Film 110: Introduction to Film History and Aesthetics at Westminster College)

Stark, Kid. "Stranger Studies 101: Cities as Interaction Machines." The Atlantic (September 1, 2010)

Stevenson, Bryan and Malcolm Suber. "Monumental Questions." On the Media (October 31, 2017) ["Speaking this week on Fox News, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly warned against the removal of Confederate monuments on the grounds that it would erase important history. But the statues in question have never been about preserving a neutral version of history but rather about perpetuating a series of narratives and myths about slavery and the Civil War. Earlier this year we spoke to Malcolm Suber, historian and co-founder of the group Take 'Em Down NOLA, about the significance of removing monuments to white supremacy. And we spoke to Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about his work documenting the thousands of lynchings that took place in the South from 1877 to 1950, and the significance of remember and reckoning with the realities of our shameful past."]

Tashman, Brian. "Latest Abortion Ban Bill Is Yet Another Attack on Women’s Rights." Speak Freely (November 1, 2017)

Werff, Tom Van Der. "The best thing about Blade Runner 2049 is what it isn’t." Vox (October 9, 2017)