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Issue 61: Heat

July 2018

Magnificent Obsessions: The 33-Second Elevator Ride in Indiscreet

Veronica Fitzpatrick·
Issue 61: Heat
"Here, liminal, suspended between floors, everything is left to imagination." Read More
Charlie Sheen, in Oliver Stones "Platoon"

A Private’s Perspective: Oliver Stone & Vietnam

Luke Hicks·
Issue 61: Heat
Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War trilogy (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth) helped shape America’s collective memory of the Vietnam War at a crucial moment. Read More

If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen

Madison Miller·
Issue 61: Heat
In Thelma & Louise, the only image more combustible than a Polaroid picture is that of femininity. Read More

Brimstone and Ash: Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly and The End of History

Nico Chapin·
Issue 61: Heat
Viewed through the lens of 2018, Kiss Me Deadly is decidedly modern in its depiction of an America on the brink. Read More

How to Read a Fire: On Hitchcock’s Rebecca

Phoebe Chen·
Issue 61: Heat
In Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, the flames are a blinding white, almost supernatural in their brightness. Read More

We Shall Find the Glory

Joel Mayward·
Issue 61: Heat
An epic, classical adventure, there is something dream-like about The Lost City of Z's narrative, as if it were conjured up in the imagination and memory of the characters themselves. Read More

Apocalyptic Americana

Stephanie Monohan·
Issue 61: Heat
On heat and the occult in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Read More

Rango and the Desert Dreamspace

Ross McIndoe·
Issue 61: Heat
It's only in a fluid, sun-dazed space like this that a film like Rango can make any sense. Read More

Lightning in a Bottle: Jezebel and Bette Davis

Elise Moore·
Issue 61: Heat
Ostensibly the story of a spoiled Southern belle's slightly deranged love life, Jezebel is more psychologically interesting than it has any right to be. Read More

Let’s Go Straight to the Happily Ever After Part

Travis Woods·
Issue 61: Heat
Burning through American dreams in the day-glo noir of Miami Blues Read More

Great Expectations

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 61: Heat
Summer is restless and stupid and hot. Read More

Heartburn: Heat as Catalyst in Adaptations of Tennessee Williams

Amber Sparks·
Issue 61: Heat
Tennessee Williams plays are full of many things—verbal gymnastics most of all—but the film versions will always be, for me, about the lush, swollen catalysts of deep summer. Read More
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