Dear Readers,
As the semester is quick in closing, I've decided to leave you not with a film, but a list of books that you might peruse at your leisure over Winter Break. Reading about film is the third best way to understand the medium and is absolutely indispensible for learning the artifice of a subtle critique.
"Güber-Mensch: Michael Cera and Sexual Redemption vs. Redeeming Sexuality" by Rolf Kriger.
"B-Film and the Hermetic Humor of Monstrous Cosmologies" by Deboran D. Dallas, Jr.
"Indie-constructible: Film and Ironic Urban-ity for Post-Humanomie" by Alexander P. Lentz.
"Cine-Rythmatics of the Gilles-Delugional Gea-Mater" by Anton Wilson.
"Men See: Women Sawed" by Martha Rosenblatt.
"Zombie 2: The Erotics of Disembowelment" by George de Quincy.
"Warren Beatty's Reds and the Specter of Farce" by Karl Rodenwaldt.
"My Exagmination Round Cinemagnification of Circumlocutions in 'Work in Progress'" by Shames Voice.
"Zoo: Epistemology of the Stable" by Phillip Gomille.
"Spiderman, Responsibility, and the Repressive Politics of Nuclear Deterrence" by Leo C. Prins.
"Harry Potter 7 and Scholastic Nostalgia" by Georgia Santner.
"Inception Disseminated: Misuses of Freud in Pop Culture" by Eva B. Reed.
"Escaping Escapism: Lord of the Rings as Theological Therapy" by Sister Miriam Joseph (forthcoming).
"Flaneurie, Cinema, Cyborgs: Evolutions in Viewing the City" by Rue A. Avital.
"Disaster Cinema: How to Leave a Carbon Dance Step" by Howard G. Penrose.
"Nude Art, Naked Craft: Cinema and Pornography" by Roald Barthos.
"How to Read like an Actor and Get Away with it" by Harlan Brechtel.
"Everything You Wanted to Know about Hitchcock but Didn't Want to Ask Zizek" by François Truffaut.
"Vietnam to Iraq: Representations of Black Bodies in War Film" by Martin Yang.
"Johnny Got his Gun: The Psychogeography of Sealed Enclosures" by Guy Deboar.
"To See the Universe in a Grain of Coffee: The Café Films of Jarmusch and Godard" by Theodore S. Balzac.
"Terrible Interiors: David Lynch, Edward Gein and Furniture Design" by &EACUTElan Makavejev.