Fall 2024

Nothing in Antonioni’s Blow-Up is as memorable as the tennis game played without a ball while Thomas, the hero of the film, looks on. The camera tracks the mimes who play their ghostly game and when Thomas retrieves the imaginary …

Cancer is the twentieth century disease. If not in scientific fact, then surely in the fear-ridden depths of our imagination, cancer seems to be the special nemesis of our age. President Eisenhower’s politically dramatic heart attack created a journalistic image …