Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging
David Bordwell, Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging. University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 520 24197 5 330pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press)…
Cinema Lucida: Johan van der Keuken and the Meaning of Loss
Images virtually rob us of our memory, because they replace it. – Johan van der Keuken[1] Johan van der Keuken was born in Amsterdam in 1938; he died from prostate…
Cinema/Theatre: Beyond Adaptation
In his Notes sur le cinématographe (1975), Robert Bresson refers to ‘la terrible habitude du théâtre’. This note is not an absolute renunciation of relations between cinema and theatre. At this moment, Bresson…
Inviolable Attachments: Takeshi Kitano’s Dolls
Someone said that in this day and age, people won’t accept a play unless it is very realistic and logically convincing, so there are many things in the old stories…
Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema (new introduction)
Tom Conley, Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema (new introduction). University of Minnesota Press, 1991; 2006. ISBN 0-8166-4970-7 US$22.50 (pb) 296pp Tom Conley, Cartographic Cinema. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN…