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Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess

Linda Williams
- 01 Jul 1991 - 
- Vol. 44, Iss: 4, pp 2-13
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In this paper, Castillo is a California Cahuilla Indian and chair of Native American Studies at Sonoma State University, and author of two distinguished works on French film and theory.
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Richard Abel, author of two distinguished works on French film and theory, teaches at Drake University. Carolyn Anderson teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Edward D. Castillo is a California Cahuilla Indian and chair of Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. Darius Cooper teaches at San Diego Mesa College. David Desser, our Book Review Editor, teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

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The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses

TL;DR: The Body in Cinema: Meaning and Being and the Visual in Anthropology: New Principles of Visual Anthropology explore the role of language and image in the formation of identity in the post-modern world.
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What Does It Mean to Be an American? Patriotism, Nationalism, and American Identity After 9/11

TL;DR: In a survey of national identity and social attitudes conducted in late September 2001, two different definitions of national unity were inserted in the introduction to the questionnaire in an attempt to prime activation of different conceptualizations of nationality.
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Captain America's Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post‐9/11 Geopolitics

TL;DR: In this article, comic books are used as a medium through which national identity and geopolitical scripts are narrated, using the example of post-9/11 9/11 Captain America comic books to integrate various strands of theory from political geography and the study of nationalism.
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Pornography, Normalization, and Empowerment

TL;DR: It is wanted to see whether viewing pornography appeared to expand sexual horizons through normalization and facilitate a willingness to explore new sexual behaviors and sexual relationships through empowerment and whether the effects to be mediated by gender and sexual preference identity.
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The Corporeal Image

TL;DR: In this paper, the body in cinema is discussed, as well as the role of the human voice and vision in the process of making a film, and the meaning of meaning and being is discussed.
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The History of Sexuality

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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Laura Mulvey
- 01 Oct 1975 - 
TL;DR: This paper used psychoanalysis to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject and the social formations that have moulded him.
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Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

TL;DR: The Art of the impossible as discussed by the authors is a book about the art of impossible approaches to the impossible problem of women's sexual health and sexual freedom in the United States, focusing on pornography.
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Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

TL;DR: The Art of the impossible as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about the art of impossible approaches to the difficult problem of women's sexual health and sexual freedom in the first century of the 21st century.