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      Kalling Heck
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Author Kalling Heck

Kalling Heck

Kalling Heck is Assistant Professor of Screen Arts and English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition, forthcoming from Rutgers University Press.

Snowpiercer and the Return of the Left

Kalling Heck
October 2019
This is what defined cinema in the 2010s
A reemergent left was clearly amongst the most significant changes of the ‘10s, and these changes were not unaddressed by world cinema. Significantly, Bong Joon-ho’s first English language feature Snowpiercer (...

A Day at Kitano’s Beach: Sonatine Makes a Fresh Start

Kalling Heck
July 2019
Feature Articles
Upon arriving at the beach house to which he has fled – ostensibly escaping the treacherous warfare that threatened to interrupt his attempts to escape the mobster lifestyle he has lived up to this point – Mura...

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