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Discourse

Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture

Edited by Akira Mizuta Lippit, James Leo Cahill, Carl Good, and Genevieve Yue

Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies, Film History, Film Theory and Criticism, Media Studies, Philosophy, Television Studies

Published three times per year
ISSN 1522-5321
E-ISSN 1536-1810

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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 34, Number 1 (Winter 2012)

A Mother Is a Form of Time: Gilmore Girls and the Elasticity of In-Finitude
Eugenie Brinkema

From the Century of the Pods to the Century of the Plants: Plant Horror, Politics, and Vegetal Ontology
Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari

Fag Hag: A Theory of Effeminate Enthusiams
Maria F. Fackler and Nick Salvato

Consumable Bodies and Ethnic (Hi)Stories: Strategies and Risks of Representation in A Gesture Life
Suk Koo Rhee

The Exorbitant Lightness of Bodies, or How to Look at Superheroes: Ilinx, Identification, and Spider-Man
Scott C. Richmond

 

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Published 3 times per year

Issue Artwork Due
Spring December 15
Summer February 15
Fall July 15

 

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33.3
33.2: The Meaning of "Life"
33.1

32.3: Lugubrious Games
32.2: Transpositions
32.1: Benjamin in Latin America

31.3: Translation and Embodiment in National and Transnational Asian Film and Media
31.1-2: On the Genealogy of Media

30.3: Cinema and Accident
30.1-2: "Who?" or "What?"—Jacques Derrida

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