The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema (2017)
Journal Article
featherstone. (2017). The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2017.1369686

In this article, I read the recent cinema of the Danish-American Director Nicolas Winding Refn through a contradictory complex of Freudian–Jungian psychoanalysis, Bataillean philosophy and Buddhist thought. By focusing on Winding Refn’s three most re... Read More about The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema.

Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture (2017)
Journal Article
Archer. (2017). Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture

Looking comparatively and respectively at the two recent iterations of Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel, and the David Fincher-directed film from 2014 – this essay focuses on the texts’ specific concerns with cultural use, within a mass-media a... Read More about Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture.

Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research (2017)
Journal Article
Archer. (2017). Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research. Mobilities, 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1330988

This article argues for the use of film studies in the study of mobilities, with a specific focus on the analysis of genre, and the particularly fictional character of genre film. The article focuses on genre’s emerging and shifting forms across temp... Read More about Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research.

Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 599-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2016.1218188

The police massacre, in the center of Paris, of hundreds of protesting Algerians on the 17th of October 1961 has become one of the most recognized events of the Algerian War. Amid a wealth of historical and fictional works that treat the event, Jacqu... Read More about Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre.