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When primitivism fails us, let’s get more primitive: The Driller Killer as perverted decolonization

Posted on May 16, 2025May 16, 2025 by shaawano

      I’m here to talk about Abel Ferrara’s 1979 film The Driller Killer, in which a NYC artist named Reno Miller (played by Ferrara, listed as Jimmy Laine), under pressure to deliver on a commissioned painting, unpaid bills, as well as a crumbling domestic situation, kills a lot

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Academics, Film Review, Literary Analysis Abel Ferrara, art, baybi day, carolyn marz, class warfare, cultural appropriation, d.a. metrov, dick hebdige, fire dances, frederick jackson turner, horror, Indigenous Studies, Jim Morrison, jimmy laine, killing joke, NYC, primitivism, punk, Reno, revenge, slasher, the doors, the driller killer, the lizard king, turner hypothesis, voivod Leave a comment

Rhymes for Young Deadpool

Posted on March 10, 2019July 22, 2021 by shaawano

  This was presented at the 2019  Native American Literature Symposium  at Mystic Lake Casino on March 10, 2019. It is a “Red Reading” of Deadpool 2, done in honor of and in incomplete collaboration with my wife, Dr. Carol Warrior, who passed away a few weeks after we saw

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Academics, Anthropology abuse, boarding schools, Canada, civilizing projects, deadpool 2, Dopinder, green lantern, hunt for the wilderpeople, jeff barnaby, julian dennison, karma, residential schools, revenge, rhymes for young ghouls, ryan reynolds, taiki waititi, TRC of Canada Leave a comment
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