Paranoid Park (Gus van Sant)

The Flow of the Water: Contemporary American Realisms

"Realism" is one of the enduring theoretical problems of the cinema. This study aims to broaden the parameters of the term by focusing on an often overlooked strain of thought that flows throughout the work of a number of prominent and seemingly incongruous thinkers such as Bazin, Kracauer, Benjamin, Barthes, Buñuel, and others. Realism, I contend, is undergirded by something far more elusive a...

Gus Stadler

Paranoid? Who Says I'm Paranoid?

‘Liminal Dub’ by Gus Cummins

Images from ‘Dub in Liminal [4_TD$DIFF]Space’ produced in 2009–2010 towards MRes Digital Art and Technology at University of Plymouth. I embrace the ‘Dub [7_TD$DIFF]Reggae’ music genre. It strips the language from songs, sometimes returning it in a fragmented form, ornamented with delays and echoes. It provides an analogy for temporal lobe seizures; I experience dub versions of events, with lan...

Immunomodulatory Activity of Chlorophytum borivilianum Sant. F

Chlorophytum borivilianum Santapau & Fernandes (Liliaceae) is a very popular herb in traditional Indian medicine and constitute a group of herbs used as 'Rasayan' or adaptogen. Ethanolic extract of the roots and its sapogenin were evaluated for their immunomodulatory activity. Effect of azathioprine-induced myelosuppresion and administration of extracts on hematological and serological paramete...