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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

 

Discourse Volume 34, Numbers 2 & 3 (Spring/Fall 2012)

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

Real Time/Zero Time
Tung-Hui Hu

Movements of the Soul: Traversing Animism, Fetishism, and the Uncanny
Spyros Papapetros

The Disembodied Wound of The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes: The Quay Brothers’ “Homage to Chris Marker” 
Rebecca A. Sheehan

Media Archipelagos: Inter-Asian Film Festivals
Joshua Neves

Said’s Marxism: Orientalism's Relationship to Film Studies and Race
Gerald Sim

Retheorizing Comedic and Political Discourse, or What Do Jon Stewart and Charlie Chaplin Have in Common?
Rob King

 

Following the Impossible Road to Female Passion: Psychoanalysis, the Mundane, and the Films of Jane Campion
Hilary Neroni

Weariness, Waiting: Enduration and Art Cinema’s Tired Bodies
Elena Gorfinkel

Book Reviews

Logistics, Death, and Virtual Media
Review of: Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture
 by Patrick Crogan
Annie Manion

De-Imperializing Cultural Studies: “Asian Studies in Asia”
Review of: Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization by Kuan-Hsing Chen
Sandra So Hee Chi Kim

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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"
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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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