Discourse Volume 44, Issue 1, Winter 2022

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.

Discourse Volume 44, Number 1 (Winter 2022)

The Cinema of Racialized Attraction(s): The John C. Rice—May Irwin Kiss and Something Good—Negro Kiss
Allyson Nadia Field

A Theory of Suspended Animation: The Aesthetics and Politics of (E)motion and Stillness
Daisy Yan Du

Mother’s Milk: Returning to Cavell
Rebekah Rutkoff

Book Reviews
“Nuancing Movement and Stasis in Berlin School Films”: Review of Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema
Angelica Fenner

“Film’s Distribution and 1968: Radical Aspirations”: Review of 1968 and Global Cinema and Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968
Megan Hoetger

“Beyond the Metanarratives of Indian Cinema”: Review of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space
Parichay Patra

“Hidden Materialities”: Review of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality
Michele Pierson

“And Now Our Watch Begins”: Review of Unwatchable
Aurore Spiers

Contributors