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Ethan Hawke could fix me
On “First Reformed,” capitalism, despair, and being un/underemployed for one year
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Introducing ‘Conflict Kino,’ a film podcast about the imperial periphery
A new project + brief thoughts from inside the imperial core
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
EMMA. (2020) and what we really want from adaptations
I love this film. It is a terrible adaptation, but does that make it terrible film?
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Lolita and the invitations of untrustworthy men
On unreliable narrators, the heterosexuality of it all, and finding clarity in “Lolita”
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
The Nickel Boys and breaking the rules
On the echoes of slavery and living in a system designed to hurt us
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Finding hope in ‘Salò’
A critical reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” and a secret second film
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
I’m teaching a class this summer!
Class info for Intro to Literary Publishing + spring cleaning, summer reading
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Can romance survive who you are?
Thoughts on “Before Midnight,” gender performance, and hetero-pessimism
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Tom Nook isn’t a landlord, he’s a colonizer
A video essay three years in the making
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
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