Rhythm and Light: Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick, and Ruiz, by Laleen Jayamanne Steven Shaviro July 2021 Book Reviews Laleen Jayamanne’s beautiful new book, Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gify, enlivens the spirits of its readers every bit as much as the movies it discusses enliven both the spirits and the bodies of their...
The Big Mouth (1967) Steven Shaviro July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director Hitchcockian Comedy and Jewish Kabuki: Jerry Lewis’ The Big Mouth (1967) One way to think about The Big Mouth (1967) is to see it as Jerry Lewis’ parody – or better, his loose remake – of Alfred Hitchcock’s No...
