Sweet Johnson’s devotion to Grove Street may seem noble, but through the lens of urban politics and masculinity, it becomes a trap that keeps CJ chained to a cycle of loyalty, violence, and stagnation.
More than a social drama, Vivre sa vie is a meditation on how films organize the act of seeing.
Indonesia’s censorship practices reveal a continuity between authoritarian and democratic eras.
Internet liminality owes much of its vocabulary to Lynchian nostalgia and temporal instability.
Through Goffman’s performance theory, affect theory, and Debord’s spectacle, how does IShowSpeed’s EARLY STREAM! transform livestreaming into an enduring myth in internet culture?
Josef K. faces a court that never explains itself, yet never releases him.
An essay on Mulholland Drive exploring David Lynch’s portrayal of Hollywood as a dream machine where identity, desire, and reality collapse through psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodern film theory.