Fall 2012: Volume 66, Number 1
FEATURES: Hauntology; Boardwalk Empire; an Interview with Michael Glawogger; and William Klein’s Documentary Method
READ: Paul Juian Smith’s Spanish Cinema Roundup and Colin McCabe’s Cannes Notebook
All posts tagged: Mark Fisher
The Politics of “The Dark Knight Rises”: A Discussion
Mark Fisher and Rob White debate Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises: is it a radical or reactionary film?
“Source Code”: Present-Tense Trauma
Mark Fisher looks back at the time-traveling thriller Source Code and its nightmare vision of the present.
“I, Robot”: What Do Robots Dream of?
Mark Fisher looks back at the thought-provokingly ambivalent depiction of technology in the 2004 I, Robot
Implausible Psycho: “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Mark Fisher reviews Lynne Ramsay’s film adaptation of Lionel Schriver’s novel about teenage murder, We Need to Talk About Kevin
By Herself: “The Iron Lady”
Mark Fisher reviews The Iron Lady and discusses the politics of this biopic of a paradoxical Prime Minister.
Going Nowhere: “The Descendants” and “Young Adult”
Mark Fisher reviews Alexander Payne’s The Descendants and Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, two films about journeys that end in uncertainty rather than self-discovery.
Non-film: Steve McQueen’s “Shame”
Mark Fisher reviews Steve McQueen’s bleak, blank tale of New York addiction and emptiness, starring Michael Fassbender, Shame.
“A Very Peculiar Practice”
A review of the cult British TV show, A Very Peculiar Practice, a black comedy set in a regional university in the Thatcher era.
The Lonely Road
A new kind of apocalypse emerges in Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel, The Road. Nature here is not an active presence which verdantly reclaims former human habitations, as in a certain apocalyptic tradition which started with Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.