http://criticalcommons.org daily 1 2009-02-28T09:21:25Z http://criticalcommons.org/Members/vaparedes/clips/FF_Nawathe_GumnaamBollywoodSwingin.mov/view Dance number "Jan Pehechaan Ho" from Gumnaam vaparedes dance bollywood postmodernism 2011-08-23T19:31:37Z Clip video/quicktime http://criticalcommons.org/Members/vaparedes/clips/FF_kcop_bway.mp4/view After his partner’s failed attempt to convince a murder witness to testify against the film’s villain Cullen Crisp, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s John Kimble uses a more aggressive method of persuasion. Kimble inexplicably finds Cindy (the witness) in a seedy club on South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. vaparedes downtown los angeles space marquee race criminality time broadway ideological analysis 2011-04-02T03:48:51Z Clip video/mp4 http://criticalcommons.org/Members/vaparedes/clips/ff_500days_streetlevel.mp4/view Walking past the Broadway Trade Center near 7th Street, Tom dismisses the street level as not very exciting. The couple focuses upward, on the historic buildings as the film's camera follows suit. vaparedes urban fine arts building eastern columbia building downtown los angeles broadway trade center south broadway 2010-12-28T21:05:32Z Clip video/mp4 http://criticalcommons.org/Members/vaparedes/clips/FF_WeirdScience_Creation.mov/view This scene from John Hughes's 1985 teen film Weird Science shows how the pseudo-scientific construction of an idealized body comes from popular culture imagery. vaparedes popular culture creation 1980s magazines idealized body teens cyborg female body 2010-09-02T18:49:46Z Clip video/quicktime http://criticalcommons.org/Members/vaparedes/clips/lapi_broadway.mp4/view Thom Andersen's 2003 video essay about the representation of Los Angeles through film. vaparedes film history downtown los angeles broadway angel's flight history 2010-08-02T08:14:47Z Clip video/mp4 http://criticalcommons.org/Members/vaparedes/clips/FF_JeanSeberg_FourthWall.mov/view Mark Rappaport's fictionalized account of Jean Seberg's journals. The film discusses the actress's place in film history through witty feminist analysis. vaparedes gender revisionist history fourth wall feminist 2010-01-08T14:30:17Z Clip video/quicktime