The Seduction of the Abyss: Mechanisms of Fascist Consciousness in Agusti Villaronga’s In a Glass Cage (1987)
In a Glass Cage was released in 1987, a decade after Franco’s death, in a Spain still struggling to come to terms with its fascist past.
Cinema and Video
Cultism, Modern Nazism, and the Hollow Promise of European Humanism in Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs
Pascal Laugier’s 2008 film Martyrs stands as a radical intervention in twenty-first-century horror cinema, a work that transforms extreme physical suffering into an instrument of ideological critique....