"In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator's encounter with the cinematic scene of violence - rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Prov…
Psychoanalytic film study that explores the way East Asia is a key enigmatic signifier for the West.
In an exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, King traces a long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood…
In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little appare…
