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Sex with the City: Urban Spaces, Sexual Encounters and Erotic Spectacle in Tsukamoto Shinya's Rokugatsu no Hebi - A Snake of June (2003)
[...]the sadomasochistic themes of Tsukamoto's films can be read in more general/philosophical terms as reflecting not just the underlying sexual logic and gender politics of late modernity, but also its underlying economic logic. Though the relationship is uneven it is not entirely irreversible and capital cannot invade and parasitize our bodies and our sexual desires without itself coming to reflect aspects of life's animation. Besides forces of objectification, a more visceral erotics of nakedness is equally evoked by these photographers, a nakedness that seems to escape or be in excess of the objectifying technologies that record and mediate them. Part of that intensity is of course the emotional connotations of blue, the colour of a mood widely understood and experienced in developed cities throughout the world. Besides a short opening sequence (that shall be returned to later) the story starts when we are introduced to Rinko (Kurosawa Asuka), a young elfin like telephone counsellor who works at the county mental health centre. Neither the modern city itself nor the machines that enable us to navigate and engage with both it and each other are simply part of an alien externality, something we can either be in or out of. [...]sexual being is not a quality or attribute of embodiment, it is not simply 'in' us but part of the phenomenological fabric through which as both body-subjects and body-objects we experience and are experienced.
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Neo-noir
\"Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game--and how to break them. From Point Blank (1967) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (1971) to 36 Quai des Orfلevres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps out the terrain, combining genre, stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and industrial approaches. Essays discuss works from the US, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand; key figures, such as David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino and Sharon Stone; major conventions, such as the femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city and the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour.\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Sex with the City: Urban Spaces, Sexual Encounters and Erotic Spectacle in Tsukamoto Shinya‘s Rokugatsu no Hebi - A Snake of June (2003)
Shot in a blue washed monochrome, the city of Tsukamoto Shinya‘s A Snake of June, stages a number of highly mediated sadomasochistic sexual encounters within its public spaces. This article examines how the forms of mediation offered within the narrative by both architecture and technology as well as the mediation offered by the film‘s extraordinary blueness articulates the intimate relationship between sexuality and modernity. Following on from the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, it combines a phenomenological and dialectical approach to develop an analysis of sexual pleasure and sexual politics which can account for the embodied interaction of urban subjects and urban spaces.
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BOGGED DOWN - Councils gang up on Premier as compensation calls grow
On the southern front, furious Gold Coast councillors yesterday threatened to stop work on the Tugun desalination plant and the Hinze Dam. They accused the State Government of being untrustworthy in its promise to compensate southeast Queensland councils for last week's takeover of their water assets. \"I say to the State Government, `Put your money where your mouth is',\" water committee chairwoman Daphne McDonald said. \"Our first responsibility is to the ratepayers of this city.\" \"The 65 megalitres per day (the pipeline will deliver) is critical to maintaining water supplies in the greater Brisbane area in the event that the current record low rainfall patterns continue,\" she wrote.
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Coast hoses down bucket rules for gardens
Meanwhile, Brisbane is testing water in old quarry sites to see whether it is suitable for outdoor uses. \"There is a significant amount of water contained and collected in old quarry sites that, following testing and possible treatment, could be used as a supplementary water source for non-drinking purposes,\" Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said.
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AUTOMOTIVE
Key areas of Canada's critical export sector--including the massive auto parts industry--are on a collision course with theirupstart rivals from China in the lucrative U.S. market, a federal government report suggests.
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Ford to seek aid to remake Oakville plant
Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. is preparing to go to the federal and Ontario governments in a matter of weeks to seek financial help for its plan to redevelop its Oakville, Ont., operations, which would help secure at least 3,000 jobs and perhaps create thousands more.
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