Monthly Archives: March 2007

Ruggero Deodato, Cannibal Holocaust

By Steen | March 21, 2007

Deodato’s much-maligned Cannibal Holocaust is in many ways the ultimate exploitation film, and yet also much more. While the acting is at times rather stilted, and the violence seems gratuitous like most other exploitation films, this film rather enacts the desire of the spectator to see the unseen.
Cannibal Holocaust thus enacts and stages itself - [...]

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Abstract: Dreams of Difference

By Steen | March 20, 2007

Over at Paradoxa, they are lining up for a special issue on Ursula Le Guin. I submitted the following abstract, and so we’ll see if enough contributors come in to make the issue go through.
Dreams hold a special significance in Ursula Le Guin’s works. Whether they function as premonitions, warnings or glimpses of the past, [...]

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Abstract: Critical Rapes

By Steen | March 19, 2007

I have submitted the following abstract for a collection on rape in art cinema. We’ll see if it is accepted.
Cinematic representations of rape have been far more ambivalent than the social condemnations of the actual practice. Rather than fully rejecting and ignoring rape, there have been many different cinematic responses, often employing the depiction of [...]

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