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...heart patch,” which could treat people with heart disease by replacing damaged tissue with healthy cells—somewhat like a bandage over a scraped knee, if that bandage were to actually become part of the knee. Although Chien believes they will have a film of human heart muscle finished by the end of this year, he acknowledges that the process to creating a “patch” is not one that can be rushed...
...further improve intra-concentration bonding, there have been lunches with professors and talk of a possible trivia night or “Gattaca” screening, followed by a discussion of the plausibility of the technology portrayed in the film. Anderson says that HDRB is trying to become a community...
...Soon the Academy Awards will take place, and these actors will be admired the world over and their gowns and coiffures scrutinized in every entertainment magazine. Do you ever wish that opera had as much mainstream appeal as film or pop music...
...American film, gender-based violence is, unfortunately, business as usual, though it usually assumes a more somber tone. From Hitchcock’s indulgently Freudian Psycho, with its infamous shower slashing, to Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, with its copious shots of bludgeoned women, misogyny and cinema make comfortable, even gleeful, bedfellows. On television, procedural crime dramas such as Law and Order repeatedly render graphic, almost gratuitously gruesome, scenes of brutality against women, which take sadism to creative extremes...
According to psychoanalytic film critics, violence is a characteristic trait of photography and cinema, as evident in the very language of “aiming” a camera and “shooting” an image. Enmeshed in the sexual economy of the gaze, vision too exercises a system of control over women’s bodies. Positioning the self against an inassimilable (female) other, the eye serves as an explicit instrument of objectification and mastery. As feminist Luce Irigaray theorizes, the supremacy of looking over all other sensory experiences—hearing, smelling, tasting, touching?...