Monthly Archives: October 2004

Why I have never seen Derrida

It seems peculiar, but perhaps a form of poetic justice, that a film about the one person who has been so emphatically opposed to the metaphysics of presence, is so dependent on this very thing. Seeing Derrida puttering around his home, eating breakfast and smoking his pipe certainly disarms the myth of the outlaw which [...]

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Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ as the ultimate action film

Action films have since their inception been full of Christ-like imagery. This use of the action hero as a symbolic Christ suffering for the people he rescues was consolidated and emphasised during the 1970s and 80s, particular with films such as Dirty Harry and the ‘muscular movies’ such as First Blood, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, [...]

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