Law of Extraction : Transcultural Environments, Uncanny Subjects, and the “Unresolved Question of Pleasure” in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 811-831 |
Journal / Publication | Journal of Popular Culture |
Volume | 54 |
Issue number | 4 |
Online published | 6 Aug 2021 |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2021 |
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Abstract
Promoted at its Sundance premiere as “the first Iranian vampire spaghetti western film,” Ana Lily Amirpour’s first feature-length film, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014), is, more accurately, an American film set in an imagined Iran. Shot in Taft, California with a Persian script, Girl is a unique form of transcultural expressionism. The film depicts a transcultural landscape, where cultures, characters, and environments are at once entangled and isolated, where violence and intimacy coexist as strategies for survival, and where the law of extraction—the impulse to consume—is set against the law of attraction—the force of being drawn to another.
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- Ana Lily Amirpour, Iranian-American filmmakers, transcultural expressionism, vampires films, ecology and film
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Law of Extraction: Transcultural Environments, Uncanny Subjects, and the “Unresolved Question of Pleasure” in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). / MANSBRIDGE, Joanna Gwen.
In: Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 54, No. 4, 08.2021, p. 811-831.
In: Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 54, No. 4, 08.2021, p. 811-831.
Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review