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Strange Encounters at the Cinema Corral
A comparative analysis between the styles of Robert Bresson and Sergio Leone.
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Filmed Cities: Eden or Purgatory?
An analysis of how cinematic 'space' can include geographical, physical properties of city landscapes, with a special emphasis on how Los Angeles informs the meaning of Fight Club and Collateral, and Athens in Delivery.
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Eisenstein: ‘Intellectual Montage’, Poststructuralism, and Ideology
An analysis of Eisenstein's most abstract montage type, 'intellectual montage.'
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Ang Lee’s Cowboys
A review of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain tracing the film's literary roots in Allegory, Romanticism and Epic poetry.
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Film on the Internet
An exploration of the wild and diverse world of internet cinema, including films made specifically for the internet and those which find a second home (and wind) on the WWW.
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Schrader’s Canon
A reflection on the state of the film canon vis-a-vis film critic/filmmaker Paul Schrader.
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Time Spent in Zama
An essay on Hakan Sahin's first two features, Mirror and Snow, studies on the psychological effects of living in geographical isolation.
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Fantastic Films, Fantastic Bodies: Speculations on the Fantastic and Disability Representation
An analysis of the representation of the disabled across the broad spectrum of fantastic cinemas.
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And Always Searching for Beauty: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
A review essay of Dai Sijie's France-China production of Sijie's own novel, set during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Author Garrett analyzes (among other elements) how, during one of the darkest periods in China's cultural history, great art (much of it destroyed as part of the 're-education' program) survived through the perseverance of the human spirit.
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Woman’s Body as an Anatomy of Hell: Nihilism, Recursion and Tragedy
A philosophical analysis of Catherine Breillat's controversial Anatomy of Hell.
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Women of Iranian Popular Cinema: Projection of Progress
An in-depth analysis of the representation of women in contemporary Iranian cinema.
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A Study of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s “Time of Love’s” intertextual
This essay examines Mohsen Makhmalbaf's intertextual use of Rumi's famous poem The Three Fish in his early third phase film, Time of Love.
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Notes on Why We Make Movies and Dark Designs and Visual Culture
A review essay of two books celebrating the varied contributions of African-American 'imagemakers' in its broadest sense (filmmakers, actors, writers, artists).
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Suicide Doors: Bi-sexing Modleski, Marnie, and the Lincoln Continental
A trans-gendered analysis of Hitchcock's Marnie.
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Beneath the Surface of Things: Interpretation and Far From Heaven
A discussion on the finer points of the interpretative process and how film's can 'make' meaning, with Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven as the case study film.
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