There were things that could be done with film, it was crazy not to do them. (title designer Wayne Fitzgerald) [1] In 1976 Saul Bass designed the opening title sequence for That's…
Films…testify to bodies that were present before the camera. (David MacDougall) In the introduction to his history of the relationship between the body and the city in Western civilisation, Richard…
Over the past twenty-five years, several filmmakers throughout the world have departed from classical narrative formulas to embrace the intertextual as well as intratextual complexities of "episode films" (feature-length motion pictures…
[1] For Bakhtin, it is always important to know from where one speaks. The place from which I speak is that of a person who grew up in Italy during…
The cognitive approach to affect or emotion in cinema has made an important contribution to this area of film studies in recent years. Cognitivism has proven useful in the study…
This paper deals with the history of the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals from 1959 to 1964. One of the key developments over this period is the Festivals' emergence into…
This paper is the third and final instalment of an organisational history of the formative years of the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals. Over the period from 1965-1972 the two…
I. In our culture, man has always been thought of as the articulation and conjunction of a body and a soul, of a living thing and a logos, of a natural…
The most succulent item of all/The United Fruit Company Incorporated/reserved to itself . . . the delectable waist of America. (Pablo Neruda) [1] The "delectable waist" of America is more than a…
Film propaganda is common in modern societies, especially in times of crisis such as wars and revolutions, as well as being a mainstay of totalitarian regimes. From commercial advertising to…
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. (J.M. Barrie) The twentieth century will be remembered - especially in the European context - for the two…
[1] misprision, n., misdemeanor. -- ME., fr. OF. mesprision, mesprison, 'mistake, wrongdoing', fr. mespris, pp. Of mesprendre (F. se méprendre), 'to take amiss, do wrong', fr. pejorative pref. mes- (see mis-) and prendre, 'to take', fr. L. prehendere, prendere. Cp.…
. . . chopped up at the blink of an eye, whether relatives or friends, cleared out completely . . . (Bowen 207) These lines, quoted from a performance staged…