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• Christophe Gelly
  Introduction: Corruption and Cinema [Full text]

• Part 1: Genre and corruption

  • Cristelle Maury
    Rethinking Women’s Cinema as Generic Corruption: the case of Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone (2010) [Full text]
  • Amira McGivney
    The Roots of Corruption in The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015) [Full text]
  • Nicole Cloarec
    Occupational hazards or the corrupting power of genre movies in Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012) and Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021) [Full text]
  • Vincent Jaunas
    In Defense of Impurity: Corruption as a Gateway to Greatness in the work of M. Night Shyamalan [Full text]

• Part 2: Corruption as a social phenomenon

  • Hadrien Fontanaud
    Mud and Flame: celebrating hybridity against purity in David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s Penda’s Fen (1974) [Full text]
  • Tricia Jenkins
    Hollywood, Corruption and the State: An Examination of the Government-Entertainment Complex [Full text]
  • Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard
    Corruption and dreams of racing against time: Stanley Kubrick’s heist film The Killing (1956) [Full text]
  • Dominique Sipière
    In praise of corruption — according to Ernst Lubitsch. [Full text]

• Part 3: Gendered bodies of corruption

  • Guilhem Billaudel
    Corrupted and Corrupting Bodies and Images in Space Travel Movies: The Illusory Purity of Space in The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015) and High Life (Claire Denis, 2018) [Full text]
  • Pablo Cabeza-Macuso
    The Corruption of Televised Character Overhaul: From “Human Figure” to Material Formlessness [Full text]
  • Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
    ‘Fallen’ Women in a corrupt man’s world in Pre-Code Hollywood [Full text]

• Part 4: Corruption and cinematic form

  • Patrick Adamson
    Fractured Flickers (1963–64): Comic Corruptions of the Silent Screen [Full text]
  • Martine Beugnet
    A Mediology of Cinematic Corruption: Film, Corporeality and Productive Impurity [Full text]
  • Keleris Argyrios
    Body ideals, material degeneration and auratic experience in Todd Haynes’s Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. [Full text]

• Book Reviews

  • Philip Edward Phillis
    Suzanne Ferriss, ed., The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola (Bloomsbury, 2023) [Full text]
  • Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard
    Cortland Rankin, Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York (Routledge, 2023) [Full text]

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