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Michael Atkinson

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Film critic, The Village Voice; film studies prof, LIU-Post; author of seven books including HEMINGWAY CUTTHROAT (St. Martin's).
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When I say … essentially contested concept

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By Matthew Bowker, Michael Atkinson
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 INTRODUCTION Imagine a championship with no scoreboard. Teams compete, but victory is not decided by points. It's judged by “playing the game best.” Each team has developed its own distinctive style, and each faction of supporters insists that their team embodies what the game truly is. They argue with evidence and passion. They rarely converge.
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Review: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Slashes a Genre With Wit and Mint Details

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By Michael Atkinson
| The Village Voice Verified
In just over five years and three modest films, Jane Schoenbrun has established themself as an indisputable auteur with a particular, and maybe even troublesome, textual obsession: looking backward, to their own queer youth wandering the toxic fields of American media culture. They might just be a key generational voice — I look at my last decade of suburban undergrads, and I see Schoenbruns all the way down.
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Review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Lands Viewers in Cinema Purgatory

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By Michael Atkinson
| LA Weekly Verified
As heinously ludicrous as any movie spawned this decade by a filmmaker whose name you might recognize, Nicolas Winding Refn’s first film since 2016, Her Private Hell, is at least honestly titled — Hell it is, as well as being resolutely, monstrously private. As in, what was going on in Refn’s head, and in his pants, remains an inscrutable mystery.
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