Discourse Volume 42, Issue 3, Fall 2020

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 42, Number 3 (Fall 2020)

Coming and Going: Nolot, Barthes, and the Porn Theater
Jules O’Dwyer

Looking Back and Away: Jaime Barrios’s Film Club (1968)
Jessica Gordon-Burroughs

In the Flesh: Balázs, Brakhage, and the Anatomy of Filmic Gesture
Stephan Boman

Madea Sensation: Paradox and Trans Feminist Possibilities in Tyler Perry’s Work
Nicole Erin Morse

Contact Traces: On the Creative Technology of Video Game Gore
David Rambo

Work Is Beautiful: A New Cinema Genre? Review of Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky’s The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor
Jonathan Buchsbaum

The Legacies of the Red Army Faction in Germany: Review of Christina Gerhardt’s Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory
Ryan Watson

Interpretation: Do You Dig This Crypt? Review of Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies
Fan Wu

Contributors