Oedipus
October 26th, 2009 at 00:00A king in a land without frontiers.
A postmodern solver of riddles, seduced
by a masculine conceit.
Diffèrance.
I’m allergic to roots, eradication is my profession. (more…)
unguided tour
bettina mathes
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- A Note on “The Night Porter”
June 7, 2009 | 10:01Memory is performative. To remember is to repeat.
Not every memory gets performed and repeated. Some memories are so horrific that we censor their re-presentation. Perpetrator memories of the Holocaust as sexual extravaganza belong to this category.Liliana Cavani’s controversial 1974 movie The Night Porter has been labeled “Nazi chic” (Roger Ebert). For some critics the film [...]
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- A Note on “The Night Porter”
