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Nick Davis
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Department of English,
Program in Gender and     Sexuality Studies,
Northwestern University
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Oppenheimer, © 2023 Universal Pictures/Syncopy Everything Everywhere All at Once, © 2022 A24
Drive My Car, © 2021 C&I Entertainment Promising Young Woman, © 2020 Focus Features/FilmNation Entertainment The Irishman, © 2019 Netflix
Black Panther, © 2018 Marvel Studios Get Out, © 2017 Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions Hail, Caesar!, © 2016 Universal Pictures/Working Title Films
Mad Max: Fury Road, © 2015 Warner Bros./Village Roadshow/Kennedy Miller Productions The Grand Budapest Hotel, © 2014 Fox Searchlight Pictures/Indian Paintbrush Blue Is the Warmest Color, © 2013 Wild Bunch/Sundance Selects
Beasts of the Southern Wild, © 2012 Fox Searchlight Pictures The Tree of Life © 2011 Fox Searchlight Pictures Toy Story 3, © 2010 Pixar Entertainment
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, © 2009 Lions Gate Films/Lee Daniels Entertainment Rachel Getting Married, © 2008 Sony Pictures Classics/Clinica Estetica  We Own the Night, © 2007 Columbia Pictures/2929 Entertainment
INLAND EMPIRE, © 2006 Studio Canal/Asymmetrical Productions Grizzly Man, © 2005 Lions Gate Films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, © 2004 Focus Features
Kill Bill, Vol. 1, © 2003 Miramax Films/A Band Apart Morvern Callar, © 2002 Pathé/BBC Films Ocean's Eleven, © 2001 Warner Bros. Pictures
The Cell, © 2000 New Line Cinema All About My Mother, © 1999 El Deseo S.A./Sony Pictures Classics The Idiots, © 1998 Zentropa Entertainments
Titanic, © 1997 20th Century Fox/Paramount Pictures/Lightstorm Entertainment The Portrait of a Lady, © 1996 Polygram Entertainment Safe, © 1995 Sony Pictures Classics
Natural Born Killers, © 1994 Warner Bros. Pictures Farewell, My Concubine, © 1993 Miramax Films/Maverick Picture Company/Tomson (HK) Films Co. Ltd. Howards End, © 1992 Merchant Ivory Productions/Sony Pictures Classics
Boyz N the Hood, © 1991 Columbia Pictures Edward Scissorhands, © 1990 20th Century Fox Do the Right Thing, © 1989 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks/Universal Pictures
Dead Ringers, © 1988 Morgan Creek Productions/Téléfilm Productions/20th Century Fox Fatal Attraction, © 1987 Paramount Pictures The Green Ray, ߂ Les Films du Losange/Orion Classics
Shoah, © 1985 New Yorker Films This Is Spinal Tap, © 1984 Embassy Pictures/Spinal Tap Productions The Ballad of Narayama, © 1983 Toei Company/Kino International
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, © 1982 Universal Pictures Reds, © 1981 Paramount Pictures  Raging Bull, © 1980 United Artists/Chartoff-Winkler Productions
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42nd Street, © 1933 Warner Bros. Pictures Blonde Venus, © 1932 Paramount Pictures
M, © 1931 Nero-Film AG/Paramount Pictures All Quiet on the Western Front, © 1930 Universal Pictures Man with a Movie Camera, © 1929 VUFKU/Kino International/Image Entertainment
The Fall of the House of Usher, © 1928 George Eastman House Napoleon, © 1927 Ciné France/Abel Gance Films Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, © 1927 Fox Film Corporation