Tag: technology in film

The Transformative Power of Girl on Top: Death, Sex, and Agency in The Terminator

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Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese have an intimate conversation in the Tiki Motel

|Chelli Riddiough| The Terminator isn’t a very horny film, unless you’re into feathered mullets and homicidal Austrians. But inside this ‘80s action thriller lives a love story, and not one, but two, very weird sex scenes. That’s enough to catapult it into a genre I call “cyberspunk.” When The Terminator begins, our protagonist… Continue reading

Of Earrings and Eras: The Earrings of Madame de… and Cinematic History

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|Dan McCabe| The Earrings of Madame de…(1953) may be the last great work of the French “Poetic Realism” period. It certainly isn’t the only film that marks the end of a historical era in the development of motion pictures. What interests me about it is that usually evolve… Continue reading