Author Archive for: ‘Angela Ndalianis’
Paul Verhoeven and his Hollow Men
Uploaded 1 December 2001 Violence, action, psychotic characters, the darker side of sexuality, confused realities and unstable, disturbing social spaces: this is the world of Paul Verhoeven’s films. A mathematics and physics doctoral student turned filmmaker, Verhoeven has had his share of controversy. Hailing from Holland, his Dutch films included Wat zien ik? (Netherlands 1971), Turks fruit (Netherlands 1973), Keetje tippel(Netherlands 1975), Spetters (Netherlands 1980), Soldaat van oranje(Netherlands …
Read MoreFilm, Cinema and the Digital
One of the perceived challenges facing film studies today concerns the transfer of film as our object of study into the digital domain. The materiality of film as celluloid is transforming at an exponential rate from the photochemical/analogue medium that it was for approximately the first century of its existence to the digital/coding format that dominates today. Chuck Tryon explains: …
Read MoreThe Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation
Alan Cholodenko (ed.), The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation. Sydney: Power Publications, 2007. ISBN: 9 78 0909952 34 1 AUD$59.95 (pb) 576pp (Review copy supplied by Power Publications) In the anthology The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation, Alan Cholodenko has brought together an eclectic array of scholarly approaches to animation. Conceiving of animation as a …
Read MoreThe Cinema Effect
Sean Cubitt, The Cinema Effect. Cambridge, Massachusetts:The MIT Press. 2004 ISBN: 0 262 03312 7 464 pp Au$69.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Sean Cubitt’s book The Cinema Effect is hard work. Reading it involved an intense level of concentration that was akin to climbing Mt.Everest blindfolded (or so I’d imagine). My perceptions shifted from admiration, to agreement, to sheer …
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