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Issue 72: Thirst Traps

June 2019

Saturday Night Fever | art by Tony Stella

What We Don’t Remember about Saturday Night Fever

Katherine Karlin·
Issue 72: Thirst Traps
Like amber traps a dragonfly, Saturday Night Fever catches, mid-flight, the moment of ‘70s zeitgeist that accommodated various—and conflicting—definitions of rape.
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Richard Gere in Breathless (1983) | art by Tony Stella

You Americans, You Only Think About Sex

Travis Woods·
Issue 72: Thirst Traps
Breathless is at once a ferociously horny and formally audacious remake of Godard’s hyper-referential film, as well as an all-or-nothing, frenetically American and self-aware meditation on desperately empty people lost in the thrall of the pop culture that gives form to their wants and needs.
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