Discourse Volume 44, Issue 2, Spring 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 2 (Spring 2022)

Death to Bureaucrats! The Bureaucrat Comedy from the Soviet Union to Cuba (1928–1966)
Laura-Zoë Humphreys

Toward a Phenomenology of Film Production
Kartik Nair

Time Lapse Looped in Hollis Frampton’s Remote Control
John Powers

“. . . And the Gods Made Love”: Jimi Hendrix, Édouard Glissant, and the Critique of Sonic Empiricism
Ethan Plaue

Snow Noir and the Topology of Shame
Tamás Nagypál

Book Reviews
“Making the World Move”: Review of Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics
Dan Bashara

“Analogy as Framework”: Review of Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change
Tianhui Huang

“Disformations, or How Affects Disturb Forms”: Review of Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature
Alexandra Irimia

Contributors