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Self-Efface Yourself! The Fragmented Identities in Ōshima’s The Ceremony

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|Alex Kies| Lots of interesting things happen at weddings and funerals. It’s a shame to miss any of it. – Ritsuko Although he is a key figure of Japanese New Wave, and his final films were consciously West-facing, Ōshima Nagisa never quite took off in the West like his friend Kurosawa Akira… Continue reading

Generals and Majors Everywhere

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|J.R. Jones| Last spring the New Republic published a theme issue titled “American Fascism: What It Would Look Like,” with a cover image of Der Donald staring bullets at the reader in closely-cropped hair and a Fuhrer mustache. Eight different stories examine how a second Trump presidency… Continue reading