Mark Steven
Biographic Data
| ID | 5936127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Steven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Steven |
| SIGNATURE | STEVEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4894-4943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Chaplin's Nuts
To behave erratically is to be seen as nuts and to be labelled nuts is to be seen as deranged.But it wasn't always like this.Since Anglo-Saxon times, nuts have primarily been the inner kernel of certain kinds of fruit, the final form of the seed from which this or that lifeform grew.And yet, beginning with the term's very first recorded usage, the nut has also contained the suggestion of a human mind-even if only proleptically.The late twelfth ce…
Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism
A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx’s writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy concretely shaped modernism across multiple media.
Poetry for the Storms to Come
November 2017. New Brunswick, Canada. Having spent five hours banding lobster claws, Karissa Lindstrand detects an anomaly on one of the crustaceans. Inscribed on its left pincer is a familiar yet resolutely inorganic swirl of red, blue, and white. A corporate sigil branded onto the exoskeletal form of aquatic life: the Pepsi globe. While marine biologists disagree about the conditions under which the lobster acquired its tattoo – one suggestion …
Cinematic Masculinity in the Age of Finance
This essay shows how popular cinema represents financialization and finance capitalism by leveraging male stardom as an allegory for superannuated forms of productive labor in Cosmopolis (2012), Dark Knight Rises (2012), Magic Mike (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), and The Big Short (2015). Building on recent film history and scholarship about financialization and the 2008 banking collapse, it illustrates that popular…
The ragged claws of crisis
Why might a B-grade horror film in 2015 stage a performative reading of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’? That is precisely what we encounter during It Follows, when a classroom recitation of the well-known poem frames an encounter between the film’s heroine and a spectral force of bodily destruction. This essay begins with an account of that scene before describing how the film uses its historical setting, in Detroit Michigan,…
Love in the Time of Capital
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Johns Hopkins University Press via the DOI in this record
Communist laughter, from Lenin to Lubitsch
No description available
Modernism's Rubber Sole
A review of David Trotter, Literature in the First Media Age: Britain between the Wars (Harvard University Press, 2013
The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
Demonstrates how the films of Theo Angelopoulos react aesthetically to their historical periodThe Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is the first critical assessment of one of the leading figures of modernist European art cinema. Assessing his complete works, this groundbreaking collection brings together a team of internationally regarded experts and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, to provide a definitive account of Angelopoulos' formal re…
The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
This book is the first critical assessment of one of the leading figures of modernist European art cinema. Assessing his complete works, the book brings together a team of internationally regarded experts and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, to provide a definitive account of Theo Angelopoulos' formal reactions to the historical events that determined life during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Refusing to restrict its…
Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
Introduction – Angelopoulos and the Lingua Franca of Modernism
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The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
Demonstrates how the films of Theo Angelopoulos react aesthetically to their historical periodThe Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is the first critical assessment of one of the leading figures of modernist European art cinema. Assessing his complete works, this groundbreaking collection brings together a team of internationally regarded experts and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, to provide a definitive account of Angelopoulos' formal re…
The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
This book is the first critical assessment of one of the leading figures of modernist European art cinema. Assessing his complete works, the book brings together a team of internationally regarded experts and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, to provide a definitive account of Theo Angelopoulos' formal reactions to the historical events that determined life during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Refusing to restrict its…
Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
Introduction – Angelopoulos and the Lingua Franca of Modernism
Modernism's Rubber Sole
A review of David Trotter, Literature in the First Media Age: Britain between the Wars (Harvard University Press, 2013
Communist laughter, from Lenin to Lubitsch
No description available
Love in the Time of Capital
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Johns Hopkins University Press via the DOI in this record
Cinematic Masculinity in the Age of Finance
This essay shows how popular cinema represents financialization and finance capitalism by leveraging male stardom as an allegory for superannuated forms of productive labor in Cosmopolis (2012), Dark Knight Rises (2012), Magic Mike (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), and The Big Short (2015). Building on recent film history and scholarship about financialization and the 2008 banking collapse, it illustrates that popular…
The ragged claws of crisis
Why might a B-grade horror film in 2015 stage a performative reading of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’? That is precisely what we encounter during It Follows, when a classroom recitation of the well-known poem frames an encounter between the film’s heroine and a spectral force of bodily destruction. This essay begins with an account of that scene before describing how the film uses its historical setting, in Detroit Michigan,…
Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism
A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx’s writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy concretely shaped modernism across multiple media.
Poetry for the Storms to Come
November 2017. New Brunswick, Canada. Having spent five hours banding lobster claws, Karissa Lindstrand detects an anomaly on one of the crustaceans. Inscribed on its left pincer is a familiar yet resolutely inorganic swirl of red, blue, and white. A corporate sigil branded onto the exoskeletal form of aquatic life: the Pepsi globe. While marine biologists disagree about the conditions under which the lobster acquired its tattoo – one suggestion …
Chaplin's Nuts
To behave erratically is to be seen as nuts and to be labelled nuts is to be seen as deranged.But it wasn't always like this.Since Anglo-Saxon times, nuts have primarily been the inner kernel of certain kinds of fruit, the final form of the seed from which this or that lifeform grew.And yet, beginning with the term's very first recorded usage, the nut has also contained the suggestion of a human mind-even if only proleptically.The late twelfth ce…
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