Dean Allbritton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6722374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean Allbritton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean |
| FAMILY NAME | Allbritton |
| SIGNATURE | ALLBRITTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6582-8990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Growing ill
This article focuses on the Spanish films La niña de tus sueños (Jesús R. Delgado, 1995), Cachorro (Miguel Albaladejo, 2004) and Estiu 1993 (Carla Simon, 2017), which revolve around characters with HIV/AIDS. In these films, innocence and youth are often highlighted through children and adolescents who live with and next to HIV. Such a move serves to legitimize these cases of HIV and AIDS, which are marked as exceptional cases through their innoce…
The Spanish obscenities of Bruce LaBruce
This article examines Bruce LaBruce’s exploration of obscenity and pornography in the Spanish context, studying three of his recent Spain-based pornographic films alongside his 2012 photographic exhibition ‘Obscenity’ at the LaFresh Gallery in Madrid. By filming in Madrid and Barcelona while casting Spanish adult film actors and celebrities from popular culture for his porn and photography, LaBruce playfully toys with the boundaries separating tr…
Timing Out
From the pistol-packing Mother Superior of Entre tinieblas to the neo-noir thrills of La mala educación (and a host of other films in between), death has long been a staple of Pedro Almodóvar's filmic oeuvre. But so often death is read as a finalizing dead end, the overwhelmingly negative result of bad health, bad circumstances, or bad luck, when it has the potential to be read as productive and engendering possibility. This article claims that A…
Prime risks
This essay analyzes recent Spanish cinema that addresses the economic crisis, taking particular note of the ways that physical vulnerability is utilized as a metaphor for political and social precarity. I focus on three films in particular in order to highlight the metaphors of contemporary vulnerability to the Crisis: Chispa de la vida (2012), 5 metros cuadrados (2012) and Los últimos días (2012). By repeatedly exposing their protagonists to las…
Prime risks
This essay analyzes recent Spanish cinema that addresses the economic crisis, taking particular note of the ways that physical vulnerability is utilized as a metaphor for political and social precarity. I focus on three films in particular in order to highlight the metaphors of contemporary vulnerability to the Crisis: Chispa de la vida (2012), 5 metros cuadrados (2012) and Los últimos días (2012). By repeatedly exposing their protagonists to las…
Prime risks
This essay analyzes recent Spanish cinema that addresses the economic crisis, taking particular note of the ways that physical vulnerability is utilized as a metaphor for political and social precarity. I focus on three films in particular in order to highlight the metaphors of contemporary vulnerability to the Crisis: Chispa de la vida (2012), 5 metros cuadrados (2012) and Los últimos días (2012). By repeatedly exposing their protagonists to las…
Timing Out
From the pistol-packing Mother Superior of Entre tinieblas to the neo-noir thrills of La mala educación (and a host of other films in between), death has long been a staple of Pedro Almodóvar's filmic oeuvre. But so often death is read as a finalizing dead end, the overwhelmingly negative result of bad health, bad circumstances, or bad luck, when it has the potential to be read as productive and engendering possibility. This article claims that A…
The Spanish obscenities of Bruce LaBruce
This article examines Bruce LaBruce’s exploration of obscenity and pornography in the Spanish context, studying three of his recent Spain-based pornographic films alongside his 2012 photographic exhibition ‘Obscenity’ at the LaFresh Gallery in Madrid. By filming in Madrid and Barcelona while casting Spanish adult film actors and celebrities from popular culture for his porn and photography, LaBruce playfully toys with the boundaries separating tr…
Growing ill
This article focuses on the Spanish films La niña de tus sueños (Jesús R. Delgado, 1995), Cachorro (Miguel Albaladejo, 2004) and Estiu 1993 (Carla Simon, 2017), which revolve around characters with HIV/AIDS. In these films, innocence and youth are often highlighted through children and adolescents who live with and next to HIV. Such a move serves to legitimize these cases of HIV and AIDS, which are marked as exceptional cases through their innoce…
Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)