Film Critic & Scholar / New York / New Delhi / Amsterdam
There is no casual relationship with cinema.
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NYC, 2025Recent Essays
All writing →Making the Unknowable, Knowable: The Femme Fatale’s Collapse in The Grifters and Jackie BrownShort ArticleModalities of Noir Blackness: Whiteness, Form, and the Racial Floor of the Genre in Deep Cover, Clockers, and Devil in a Blue DressShort ArticleQueer Time and Space: Heteronormativity Refused in Bound and The Doom GenerationShort Article
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