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Article: Misfortune and men's eyes: voyeurism, sorrow, and the homosocial in three early Brian De Palma films.(Greetings, Hi, Mom!, and Get to Know Your Rabbit)(Critical essay)
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- June 1, 2009
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[1] In her groundbreaking essay "When the Woman Looks," Linda Williams argues that "Brian De Palma's film Dressed to Kill extends Psycho's premise by holding the woman [Kate Miller, played by Angie Dickinson] responsible for the horror that destroys her" (94). De Palma extends much more than Psycho's premise in this film, just as all of his other Hitchcock homages extend much more than the premises of the various Hitchcock films with which they engage. Without dismissing the work done by Williams, Shelley Stamp Lindsey, and myriad commentators, feminist and otherwise, on the misogynistic propensities of De Palma's oeuvre, I would like to propose a different angle from ...
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Article: 'Dahlia' noir: SHARED OBSESSION OVER UNSOLVED MYSTERY UNITES ...
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA);
September 15, 2006 ;
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... ... Byline: Glenn Lovell Sep. 15--Brian De Palma and James Ellroy. A match hatched in ... south of there. It was inevitable that De Palma, the Maestro of Mayhem known for the ... decades of false starts, has been filmed by De Palma. The Byzantine tale of betrayal, revenge ...
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