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VD Propaganda, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, and the Production Code
(Indiana University Press, 2013)Considered in the context of revisionist film history, this essay draws on Production Code Administration (PCA) documents and studio story files to look at how Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, a 1940 Warner Bros. biopic about ... -
Structuring the Argument
(John Benjamins, 2013)While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the ... -
Visser’s Generalization: The Syntax of Control and the Passive
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The Syntactic Domain of Content
(John Benjamins, 2013-05)A main motivation for relegating Word Formation to the lexicon is the fact that its output is often non-compositional. The present article, however, presents a serious challenge to the presumed contradiction between ... -
Some Small Discrepancy: Jean-Christophe-Bailly's Creaturely Ontology
(University of Illinois Press, 2013-10)This extended review essay on Bailly's first major work in English translation, The Animal Side, situates Bailly in the continuum of Continental philosophy on the topics of animality and animal ontology, from Rilke to ... -
‘“Soul Destroyers” – Soviet Journalism on the Krasnodar and Kharkov trials,’
(Wiley Online, 2013-10-07)The Soviet war crimes trials at Krasnodar, in July 1943, and Khar′kov, in December 1943, are rarely considered, or thought to contribute to understanding of the Holocaust. This article argues that, despite their propagandist ... -
Three Worlds
(Berghahn, 2013-11)"Three Worlds" explores three alternatives of cinematic worldhood in popular films that foreground the environment. If the images of the BBC’s recent wave of natural history productions tend towards ocular inflation, Werner ... -
Intersecting Ecology and Film: A Paradigm Shift
(Berghahn, 2013-11)Film theory and film studies have only recently rediscovered what is surely most visible about film: its entanglement in the world it shoots, edits, and projects. As a representational art, film ‘screens’ nonhuman nature ... -
Quantification and Substitution: The Abstract Space of Virtual Cinematography
(2013-11-13)In order to assign space value and enter it into an exchange economy, capitalism works to reduce it to an abstract plan. Writing about this process, Henri Lefebvre coins the term ‘abstract space’ and describes the logics ... -
Derived nominals and the domain of content
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The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project
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Activism, affect, identification: trans documentary in France and Spain and its reception
(Intellect, 2014)This article explores the documentation of trans activism in France and Spain since the 2000s. The first part addresses questions surrounding the place of affect and narrative in documentary film, particularly in ...