And so, in the dream-logic of this particular shade, the express train in Brief Encounter is called the express not only because it doesn’t stop, but because, in its not-stopping, it expresses the shy heart of Laura Jesson.
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Julia Laurel Mueller is an essayist and independent scholar of literature and film, nature and natural history. She holds a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, has held a fellowship in the Cornell Society for the Humanities, and lives in rural West Virginia. Essays creative, scholarly and hybrid have appeared or are forthcoming in, among others, ASAP/Review, Diacritics, EcoTheo, ELH, The Hopkins Review, ISLE, Kestrel, Literary Imagination and Menagerie.
Even in 1939, when The Wizard of Oz first pictured Kansas in sepia, it might’ve been the color of nostalgia—the color of old photographs, a certain shade of dirt.
On Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002), a theology of miracles, equivocal goods and equivocal evils, romantic possibility, and miraculous recovery.