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25 January 2010
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Framing Class Conflict in Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”

Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980) is, from a multitude of perspectives, a book-end. If Owen Wister is said to have spawned the Western genre (in fact a slightly spurious claim, given the multifarious incarnations of the myth in popular culture prior to The Virginian), Cimino is widely credited as its …

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11 January 2010
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“A Marxist’s Gotta Do What a Marxist’s Gotta Do”

Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation, edited by Iain Robert Smith, is now online. This exciting new eBook of original scholarship on processes of adaptation in film, television and new media is a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Scope: an Online Journal of Film and TV Studies. It includes my …

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21 November 2009
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The Men Who Stare at Goats: A New Vietnam Myth?

At first sight, Grant Heslov’s latest offering The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) resides alongside the whimsical fantasia of an earlier McGregor outing, Tim Burton’s Big Fish (2003): the picaresque adventures of a little guy in a mysterious dream world. There is, however, more to this film than such a …

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