MCM Graduate Program
genie Brinkema
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Biography
Year entered: 2004
Dissertation: "The Form of the Affect: Grief, Disgust, Anxiety, and Joy in Film and Critical Theory"
Festival Committee, 2005, Queer Window: The LGBTQ Film/Video Festival
Research interests : film theory and criticism, "new European extremism," horror films, pornography, "body genres," cinema and sensation, violence and the image, rape and representation, fascism in Italian film, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, the "turn to affect," the "turn to ethics," Foucault, Deleuze, Barthes, Nancy, feminism, queer theory
Publications:
“How to Do Things with Violences: Benny’s Video,” in The Blackwell Companion to Michael Haneke, ed. Roy Grundmann (Blackwell, forthcoming 2010).
“The Fault Lines of Vision: Rashomon and The Man Who Left His Will on Film,” in Rape in Art Cinema, ed. Dominique Russell (Continuum, forthcoming 2010).
“To Cut, to Split, to Touch, to Eat, as of a Body or a Text: Secretary and Dans ma peau,” Shadows of Cruelty: Sadism, Masochism & the Philosophical Muse, special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, ed. Frida Beckman and Charlie Blake (Routledge, forthcoming 2009).
“Browning. Freak. Woman. Stain.” in The Cinema of Tod Browning: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque, ed. Bernd Herzogenrath (McFarland, 2008), 158-173.
“Psychoanalytic Bullshit,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 21.1 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), 61-79.
“More Gilmore Girls: Rory, Lorelai, Donna, Stella, and Lucy,” Studies in Popular Culture 30.1 (2007), 51-64.
“‘Not to scream before or about, but to scream at death’: Haneke’s Horrible Funny Games,” in Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945, ed. Steffen Hantke (Scarecrow Press, 2007), 145-159.
“A Title Does Not Ask, but Demands That You Make a Choice: On the Otherwise Films of Bruce LaBruce,” Criticism 48.1 (Wayne State University Press, 2006), 95-126.
“Celluloid is Sticky: Sex, Death, Materiality, Metaphysics (in Some Films by Catherine Breillat),” Women: A Cultural Review 17.2 (Routledge, 2006), 147-170.
“The Lady Van(qu)ishes: Interiority, Abjection, and the Function of Rape in Horror Films,” Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 20 (2006), 33-65.
“Rape and the Rectum: Bersani, Deleuze, Noé,” Camera Obscura 58, 20.1 (Duke University Press, 2005), 33-56.
“Pleasure in/and Perversity: Plaisagir and Liliana Cavani’s Il portiere di notte,” Pleasure, special issue of The Dalhousie Review 84.3 (Dalhousie Press, 2004), 419-439.