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Issue 8: This & That

January 2014

Letter from the Editor

Chad Perman·
Issue 8: This & That
Well, it’s a brand new year, and so we’ve decided to try something a bit different for our very first issue of 2014.
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Where All the Women Are Strong

Kara Shroyer·
Issue 8: This & That
In the Coen brothers’ 1996 film Fargo, Jerry Lundegaard walks into a North Dakota bar in a cloud of discomfort and, we imagine, arctic air.
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A Heart in Winter

Karina Wolf·
Issue 8: This & That
The dialectics of Spike Jonze's Her follow the limitations and liberties of technology and humanity.
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I Heart Hustle

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 8: This & That
If I’m making this all sound more complicated than it is, then I’m really only beginning to capture the essence of I Heart Huckabees.
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Everybody Hurts

Chad Perman·
Issue 8: This & That
A film like Silver Linings Playbook shows a bit of what love can offer to us, in all our various states of brokenness.
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American Hustle | art by Brianna Ashby

Define: Hustle

Elizabeth Cantwell·
Issue 8: This & That
American Hustle captures us, because it gets us.
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Here’s Your Quintessence

Andrew Root·
Issue 8: This & That
In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, "Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) is not a particularly mentionable person."
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A Voice of Her Own

Joe Gilman·
Issue 8: This & That
On The Hunger Games, Clueless, and how cinematic storytelling and written storytelling interact.
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