Author Archive for: ‘Wendy Haslem’
Sin in Soft Focus Pre-Code Hollywood
Mark A. Vieira, Sin in Soft Focus Pre-Code Hollywood. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. ISBN 0810944758 (cloth) 240pp A$75.00 (Review copy supplied by Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd) Uploaded 1 November 2000 Mark A. Vieira’s Sin in Soft Focus traces a period of profound destabilisation in Hollywood during the early 1930s. It presents an historical account of this volatile …
Read MoreAmerican Gothic : New Interventions in a National Narrative
Robert K. Martin & Eric Savoy (eds.), American Gothic : New Interventions in a National Narrative. Iowa, University of Iowa Press, 1998. ISBN 0 877456 224 US$32.95 (cloth) 265pp Uploaded 12 November 1999 Fredric Jameson’s indictment of the gothic as a boring, exhausted paradigm (Jameson, 289) is challenged by the diverse and interesting collection of essays that comprise American Gothic: New …
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My introduction to Leonie Naughton involved a high degree of confusion and mistaken identity. In my first week at La Trobe University in 1988, wide-eyed, curious and quietly confident about studying film because I had invested many hours ‘researching’ classical Hollywood film with Bill Collins on channel 10 at midday, I had signed up to a class led by Leonie, …
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