From Christian Metz to Life of Pi: Thoughts on Ideology and Cinema
My purpose in this paper is to argue that scholars have for the most part been mistaken with regard to Christian Metz’s arguments in ‘The Imaginary Signifier’[1] . Commentators seem…
Douglas Sirk’s Theatres of Imitation
In her book on the reception history of Douglas Sirk’s Hollywood films, Barbara Klinger explores the disjunction between the way Sirk’s films were derided by critics upon their first release,…