Discourse Volume 34, Numbers 2&3, Spring/Fall 2012
Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.
Table of Contents
Real Time/Zero Time
Tung-Hui Hu
Movements of the Soul: Traversing Animism, Fetishism, and the Uncanny
Spyros Papapetros
The Disembodied Wound of The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes: The Quay Brothers’ “Homage to Chris Marker”
Rebecca A. Sheehan
Media Archipelagos: Inter-Asian Film Festivals
Joshua Neves
Said’s Marxism: Orientalism's Relationship to Film Studies and Race
Gerald Sim
Retheorizing Comedic and Political Discourse, or What Do Jon Stewart and Charlie Chaplin Have in Common?
Rob King
Following the Impossible Road to Female Passion: Psychoanalysis, the Mundane, and the Films of Jane Campion
Hilary Neroni
Weariness, Waiting: Enduration and Art Cinema’s Tired Bodies
Elena Gorfinkel
Book Reviews
Logistics, Death, and Virtual Media
Review of: Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture by Patrick Crogan
Annie Manion
De-Imperializing Cultural Studies: “Asian Studies in Asia”
Review of: Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization by Kuan-Hsing Chen
Sandra So Hee Chi Kim