Magic Mike XXL adds new iconography to the intersectionally raced, gendered, and very classed pleasures found within the women's film through its attention to the centrality of women's sexual desires vis-à-vis the deployment of male bodies who serve to maintain that pleasure.
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Tags: Amber Heard, Bryan Adams, Channing Tatum, female gaze, Ginuwine, homosociality, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Joe Manganiello, Magic Mike XXL, Matt Bomer, Nine Inch Nails, Steven Soderbergh, women's pleasure
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Steven Soderbergh and Cinemax's new series, The Knick, has become a critical darling, called the best in a new era of director-centered television. Kristen Warner, Lisa Coulthard, R. Colin Tait, and Andrew deWaard weigh in on its critical accolades.
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Tags: Cinemax, director, quality drama, quality television, quality TV, Steven Soderbergh, The Knick
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The fusion of cinema, television, and personality has critics resounding with near-universal praise for Cinemax's The Knick, resulting in a very heavy ride on the Steven Soderbergh bandwagon.
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Tags: auteurism, Cinemax, Steven Soderbergh, The Knick
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A panel reacts to the recent comments by Soderbergh, Spielberg, and Lucas on the state of the film industry and the medium's future
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Tags: Blockbuster Films, George Lucas, Hollywood Implosion, State of Cinema, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg
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Although prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh claims the new HBO hit, Behind the Candelabra will be his last, the director has been busy at work setting the stage for his second act as a TV/stage director-painter-novelist-t-shirt entrepreneur and headphone designer-hyphenate.
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Tags: auteur, behind the candelabra, film, HBO, Steven Soderbergh
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Arrested Development, China, copyright, Deanna Durbin, Dreamworks, George Jones, Google Glass, IllumiRoom, Iron Man 3, Netflix, neurogaming, Ray Harryhausen, Steven Soderbergh, The Onion, Xbox, YouTube
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