Author Archives: Steen

American Utopias

One of the ways that American independent filmmaking distinguishes itself from its Hollywood counterpart, is in its relation to American culture. While Hollywood films are often seen as partaking in the hegemonic structure of the dominant American society, independent films typically represent an alternative. This alternative is not just found in aesthetic practice and different [...]

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Byrne and Eno together again

You can’t really go wrong, can you?

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Ideological Fission: Cloverfield and Terrorism

After the very successful conference Monsters and the Monstrous, I’m posting my paper here.
One of the first things which is immediately noticeable about Matt Reeves’ Cloverfield is the way it serves as a form of the return of the repressed of 9/11. Most critics who saw it, could not help but remark upon the similarity [...]

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Written on the Body: The Suicide Girls’ Difference and Transgression

At the very good conference, Cultural Productions and Negotiation of Borders, I gave the following paper.Written on the Body

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The naked female body, as opposed to the authentic male body, is considered vulnerable as sexually accessible, susceptible to penetration and exploitation (Benthien, 127). This is no less [...]

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Reading War Fictions

When studying fictions on war, it seems reasonable to begin with the question of why war? What is it about war that makes it so significant and relevant that we need to investigate its cultural representations? My point is that war is one place of many where images, memory, truth, fiction, history and contemporaneity collide. [...]

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