Rebecca Sheehan

Selected Publications

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American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between (Oxford University Press, 2020)

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" 'Give me a body then...' (In)corporated Thinking in the Cinema of Menken, Deren, and Arledge," forthcoming in Cinema et Cie, volume 34 (2020)

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"Epistolary Form and the Displaced Global Subject in Recent Films by James Benning and Jem Cohen," forthcoming in Área Abierta 19(3), 2019, pp. 363-381.

 

"Biker Boys, Muscle Cars, Hollywood Men: Fetish Filmmaking and the Revision of Masculinity in Scorpio Rising and Drive," Film Studies, vol. 21 (Autumn, 2019), pp.65-82.

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"Serious Docu-Games: Empathy in Action at the Virtual Border," in Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century, edit. Frederick Aldama (The University of Arizona Press, 2019)

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"Introduction -- Moving Images: Contesting Global Borders in a Digital Age," co-written with Monica Hanna, in Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity Through Aesthetics, edit. Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan (Rutgers University Press, 2019)

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"Undocumation: Documentary Animations Unsettled Borders," Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity Through Aesthetics, edit. Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan (Rutgers University Press, 2019)

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Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity Through Aesthetics, co-edited with Monica Hanna (Rutgers University Press, 2019)

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"A Series of Surfaces: The New Sculpture and Cinema, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (Vol. 22, Summer 2016)

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“Facebooking the Present: The Biopic and Cultural Instantaneity” in The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture, edit. Belén Vidal and Tom Brown, Routledge Press, 2014

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“A Cinephile’s Guide to Vertigo: On Difference, Repetition and the Uncanny,” exhibition essay for Julie Orser: Madeleine, September 13 – October 24, 2014. Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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“The Disembodied Wound of The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes: The Brothers Quay’s ‘homage’ to Chris Marker,” Discourse vol. 32.3-4 (Fall 2013)

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“Picturing a Film Philosophy: Stan Brakhage, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Renewed Encounter with the Everyday,” Screen, 53.2, pp. 118-135 (Summer 2012)

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“The Time of Sculpture: Film, Photography and Auguste Rodin,” Screening the Past (Issue 29, Nov. 2010), edit. Sam Rohdie and Des O’Rawe

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“Competing with ‘the barbarous clangour of a gong:’ Why ‘Theme of the Traitor and the Hero’ begins in ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen,’” Journal of Modern Literature (JML), issue 32.3, Spring 2009