Author Archive for: ‘Felicity Collins’

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Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses

Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener, Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses Routledge, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-80101-0 US$39.95 (pb) 226pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) Any publication with Thomas Elsaesser’s name on it is cause for anticipation. This jointly authored volume reaffirms not only Elsaesser’s comprehensive command of the diverse theoretical projects that constitute ‘film theory’ but also the creative capacity …

Without Lying Down. Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

Cari Beauchamp, Without Lying Down. Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997 ISBN 0520214927 475pp $US 17.95 (pb) Uploaded 1 July 1999 Biography is a significant mode of narrating Hollywood history. It is also a significant mode of writing new players into standard film histories. The creative role of women behind the …

Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

B. Ruby Rich Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1998 ISBN 0-8223-2121-1 448pp US$18.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Uploaded 12 November 1999 In a disarmingly frank account of the political enmities and personal hatreds which divided the field of “cinefeminism” in the USA (and across the …

Memory in Ruins: The Woman Filmmaker in her Father’s Cinema

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Then you say that I’m always searching for my mother in my father’s cinema, but it’s a lonely experience. Just phantoms on a screen. [1] I In Australian independent cinema over the last three decades, Jeni Thornley is the filmmaker whose autobiographical project has been to articulate feminism as a historical crisis of female subjectivity. [2] As a …

The Experimental Practice of History in the Filmwork of Jeni Thornley

Uploaded 29 May 1998 The most synthetic of all art forms, film is the space in which the representative and symbolic birth of a female person can take place through the reconstruction of her history. [1] In Australian feminist cinema Jeni Thornley is the filmmaker who has been most preoccupied with the reconstruction of her own history over a series …

Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter

Michelle Langford, Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2006. ISBN 1-84150-138-7 US$40.00 (pb) 215pp (Review copy supplied by UniReps) Werner Schroeter is a marginal and itinerant (though prolific) figure in the history of New German Cinema, making fleeting but elusive appearances on the festival circuit, for instance, winning the Golden Bear …

Lawrence of Arabia: A Film’s Anthropology

Steven C. Caton, Lawrence of Arabia: A Film’s Anthropology. Berkeley:University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999. ISBN 05202100832 (pb) 316pp US$19.95 (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Uploaded 30 June 2000 Time rather than history (or even anthropology) is central to Steven Caton’s “dialectical critique”of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The 1989 re-release of Lean’s controversial anti-epic co-incided with the …