‘We’re All Mad Here’: Alienation, Madness, and Crafting Tom Waits by Nadia López-Peláez Akalay

“…Waits, through the projection of his public persona, illumines the lives of the weak, who strive to survive in a world that has always fed upon those below. …”
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“Queen of the fields”: Slavery’s Graphic Violence and the Black Female Body in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013) by Hélène Charlery

“…This paper examines Steve McQueen’s strategy in 12 Years a Slave, which consists in filming the horrors of slavery through a narrative construction that mostly concerns Solomon Northup, a “temporary” slave who survives slavery, and a visual construction centered on Patsey, a “permanent” slave who is born and dies in slavery. …”
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Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998) as a Post-Vietnam War Film in Search of Moral Legibility by Mehdi Achouche

“…This creates structural ambiguity in a film that strives to acknowledge the horrors of warfare while still trying to restore the sense of moral legibility and decency that is specific to WW2 and had been lost in Vietnam War films. …”
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