Moviegoing and gole-making: The case of Blade Runner

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Ridley Scott's Blade Runner self-consciously explores affinity between the matter of the android and the subject of the cinema. This golem movie is an artistic depiction of a man's struggle to reconcile crass mechanical limitations with noble human affections and is also a mechanical production that inculcates into its viewers cliches reducing behavior to predictable patterns.

Science fiction films, Science fiction movies, Blade Runner (Motion picture)

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Interpreting a man's world: female voices in 'Badlands' and 'Days of Heaven'

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This article considers point of view in the films by Terrence Malick, focusing on the voice-overs of adolescent girls in 'Badlands' and 'Days of Heaven.' Topics addressed include the relationship between narration, gender, and power, as well as how Malick portrays women in relation to the men in their lives.

Women, Point of view (Literature), Badlands (Motion picture), Days of Heaven (Motion picture), Malick, Terrence

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The confessing animal in 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape'

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Issues discussed concern the portrayal of confession, morality and sexuality in Steven Soderbergh's film 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape.' Topics addressed concern Michel Foucault's conception of human relationships, guilt and confession, and Soderbergh's use of the heroic narrative, comedy and self-reflexivity.

Ethics, Confession, Foucault, Michel, Soderbergh, Steven, Sex in motion pictures, Movie sex, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Motion picture)

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