Discourse Volume 43, Issue 1, Winter 2021

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 43, Number 1 (Winter 2021)

Destructive Environmentalism: The Queer Impossibility of First Reformed
Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Steven Swarbrick

Artificial Eye: The Modernist Origins of AI’s Gender Problem
Allegra R. P. Fryxell

Screening Today: The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Elizabeth Wijaya

But Was It Camp? Sadie Benning’s It Wasn’t Love
Sarah Panuska

Sadism and the Vicissitudes of the Drive in Mishima Yukio’s Patriotism
Nina Cornyetz

Melancholy and the Masses: Siegfried Kracauer and the Media Concept
Andrew McCann

Book Reviews
Regionalizing Platform Globalization: Review of The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet
Ryan Cook

Bresson and the Bounds of History: Review of Late Bresson and the Visual Arts: Cinema, Painting, and Avant-Garde Experiment
Colin Burnett