Monthly Archives: January 2013
Secret Agency in Mainstream Postmodern Cinema
| January 30, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Neal KingInterdisciplinary StudiesVirginia Polytechnic and Institute and State Universitynmking@vt.edu Among the most studied films of the last few decades are those that descend from the mid-century fiction of Philip Dick and his contemporaries, including Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate) and William Burroughs (Naked Lunch). These authors wrote during the Cold War scandal of the apparent […]
The Steorn Exploit and its Spin Doktors, or “Synergie ist der name of das Spiel, my boy!”
| January 23, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Uncategorized, Volume 18 - Number 3 - May 2008 |
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John Freeman Department of EnglishUniversity of Detroit Mercyfreemajc@udmercy.edu ex.ploit (ĕk´ sploit, ĭk-sploit´) n. An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat. tr.v. (ĭk-sploit´, ĕk´ sploit) ex.ploit.ed, ex.ploit.ing, ex.ploits To employ to the greatest possible advantage: exploit one’s talents. To make use of selfishly or unethically: a country that exploited […]
Bomb Media, 1953-1964
| January 17, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 18, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Tristan AbbottDepartment of English Language and LiteratureUniversity of Northern Iowatristan.abbott@uni.edu About halfway through Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street (1953), a stool pigeon named Moe (Thelma Ritter) is about to get shot. She knows it, too; she had been warned that the man who just forced his way into her room is a communist agent […]