Mark Bould's Outputs (25)

The very modern world of Fritz Lang (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking Lang's films as the pulp wing of the Frankfurt School, this lecture demonstrated that although not a Marxist Lang developed a critique of capitalist urban/industrial modernity very similar in some respects to that of Theodor Adorno.

BBC4’s Worlds of Fantasy, ‘Through the looking glass’ episode (2008)
Other

Mark Bould contributed to this television documentary series, which provided a discussion of China Mieville's King Rat in relation to the new weird movement in contemporary fantasy fiction and to post-Seattle and post-9/11 politics.

Race/War: Patrick B. Sharp, Savage perils: Racial frontiers and nuclear apocalypse in American culture (2008)
Journal Article

Book review of named volume

Fantastically fucked-up masculinity: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking anorexia as a model of subjectivity under contemporary capital, this paper analyses the noir protagonists of Fight Club and The Machinist and their relationship to power, labour and their own bodies.

Film neige: Noir + snow (2008)
Journal Article

A critical introduction to the role played by snow in film noir and neo-noir.