Author Archive for: ‘Helen Grace’
The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film
Mikhail Iampolski, The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film. University of California Press. 1998 ISBN 0-520-08530-2 285pp $22.50 US (pb) Uploaded 1 July 1999 | 1709 words Academic books from American university publishing houses are frequently characterised by two features: covers with the sensual appeal of perfume packaging to attract readers and lists of acknowledgements which situate the author, attempting …
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Felicity Collins and Therese Davis, Australian Cinema after Mabo. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0 521 54256 1 204pp AU$39.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) The power of cinema lies not only in what it makes us see but also in what it encourages us to think of. This involves not just a question of making us think …
Read MoreHegel’s grave
[1] Uploaded 1 March 2000 Figure 1: Animated loop from video: Hegel’s grave in Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof The Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof A VIP cemetery in East Berlin. In a quiet section, a group of luminaries lie at rest, though in life, had they all lived at the same time, there would have been no peace between them: the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, …
Read MoreThe Film Cultures Reader
Activating the Reader Graeme Turner (ed), The Film Cultures Reader. London & New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0 415 25281 4 448pp Au$50.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Routledge) In the Jonathan Franzen novel, The Corrections (2001), Chip, a former academic and struggling scriptwriter, faced with the question of how to pay the rent as well as keeping up appearances, gradually ‘”deaccessions” …
Read MoreTranscultural Cinema
David MacDougall, Transcultural Cinema. Edited & introduced by Lucien Taylor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0 691 01234 2 528pp US$17.95 (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Uploaded 1 November 2000 A vast range of the best filmmaking we now have takes place outside of the recognizeable marketplaces of commercial cinema, with its over-inflated publicity machines, its merchandising …
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