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La Haine: Your Right, Our City
Within a twenty-hour period, the characters of La Haine battle a private and a collective disruption. As day becomes night, three men’s desire to resist police…
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Urban Alienation and the Night in Crash (1996)
Introduction David Cronenberg’s 1996 film Crash follows a cast of characters who commune over their shared sexual fantasies surrounding car crashes. Based on J…
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Getting Out, Getting Lost A Formal Analysis of Lost in Translation (2003)
Introduction The notion of ‘getting lost’ is the occurrence of an individual losing their spatial reference, which consists of two elements: the feeling of…
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Cityscape of Trash : The Nocturnal Tokyo of Tokyo Godfathers (2003) by Satoshi Kon
Introduction Tokyo Godfathers is a film about waste, human resolution, and the night. Directed by Satoshi Kon and released in 2004, it is a Christmas film and…
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Staging Utopia: Queer Performance in Tangerine
Toyland, toyland / Little girl and boy land While you dwell within it / You are ever happy there Childhood's joy land / Mystic merry toyland Once you pass its…
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Surviving Los Angeles by Exercising Privacy
In queer film and television, the urban context often serves as a backdrop for portraying LGBTQ+ culture. In Sean Baker’s 2015 film “Tangerine”, set in the…