Mirrors To The Wall with Ryan Akler-Bishop - THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW (1956)

In an odyssey into Douglas Sirk's black-and-white, melodramatic masterclass, Dolly Back is joined by Ryan Akler-Bishop, a UofT graduate student and film writer, on its 25th episode! Revolving around a toymaker who grows emotionally neglected by his family and reconnects with a coworker from his past, this German director explores the human condition through a focus on the American family, and as argued by Laura Mulvey, the moral contradictions inherent to melodrama. A swan song to one of cinema's most enduring onscreen couples, Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, your hosts parse Sirk's strong command of mise-en-scène, intertextuality, and lighting, all of the critical embers that spark this doomed romance.

Laura Mulvey's Notes on Sirk and Melodrama

Ryan Akler-Bishop's Publication - Fluidity and Repression: The Ambiguity of Queerness in Giallo