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Author: Jodi Brooks

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Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film

  • Post author:Jodi Brooks
  • Post published:December 30, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 15 - Reviews

Arthur Knight, Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN 0 8223 2963 8 338 pp US$21.95 (Review copy supplied by…

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Cinema, Disappearance and Scale in David Lynch’s Inland Empire

  • Post author:Jodi Brooks
  • Post published:July 31, 2011
  • Post category:Issue 31 - First Release

In the lead-up to and long shadow following cinema’s centenary in 1995, film has increasingly been understood and defined in terms of its disappearance or demise. Over the past decade,…

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The Sound of Knocking: Jacques Becker’s Le trou

  • Post author:Jodi Brooks
  • Post published:December 23, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 12 - First Release

Uploaded 1 March 2001 Jacques Becker's Le trou (The Hole France 1960) is a particular kind of sound film. It captures your ears, takes them and holds them weightless as it traces a sensory…

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The Lure of the breach: invisibility and the dissolution of cinematic vision

  • Post author:Jodi Brooks
  • Post published:January 1, 2015
  • Post category:Issue 22 - First Release

In her chapter on Tom Joslin’s video AIDS diary Silverlake Life: The View from here (1993), Peggy Phelan argues that Joslin’s video summons and directs its viewer to a kind of off-screen…

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Missed Beats: Unseen Cinema and a Cinema of the Unseen (or Stella Dallas, Again)

  • Post author:Jodi Brooks
  • Post published:August 11, 2012
  • Post category:Issue 34 - Untimely Cinema

In the closing moments of King Vidor’s Stella Dallas (1937), Stella/Barbara Stanwyck becomes a spectator to a scene predicated on her absence, a scene she has nevertheless made possible. The…

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The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora

  • Post author:Jodi Brooks
  • Post published:December 30, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 20 - Reviews

Louis Chude-Sokei, The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN 0 8223 3643 x US$22.95 (pb) 304pp (Review copy…

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Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture 

  • Post author:Jodi Brooks
  • Post published:December 23, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 11 - Reviews

Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture London and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN 0 262 03265 1 397pp US$39.95 (cloth) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press)…

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