Author Archive for: ‘Saige Walton’
The Cinema Dreams its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet
Paul Young, The Cinema Dreams its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8166 3599 4 ISBN-13: 978 0 8166 3599 3 US$25.00 (pb) 360pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) In The Cinema Dreams its Rivals, Paul Young offers an ambitious and thoughtful, if uneven, contribution to the …
Read MoreAir, Atmosphere, Environment: Film Mood, Folk Horror and The VVitch
The poet of fire, of water, or of earth does not convey the same inspiration as the poet of air. — Gaston Bachelard Much has been written about the painful allure of distant horizons on an infinite expanse of ocean, the magic of the open road, the mysterious call of alien shores. But to show the demonic power of such …
Read MorePowell & Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces
Andrew Moor, Powell & Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces. London & New York, I.B Tauris, 2005. ISBN: 1 8504 3947 8 288pp £25.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by I.B Tauris) In his discussion of A Canterbury Tale (UK, 1944), Andrew Moor locates the film’s “magical” sensibility within the tradition of the English pastoral drama. A Canterbury Tale, much like the Shakespearean comedy …
Read MoreVirtual voyages: Cinema and travel
Jeffrey Ruoff (ed), Virtual voyages: Cinema and travel. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2006. ISBN: 0 8223 3713 4 298pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) “Vision ‘captivates’ us not only because it is a journey toward external things, but, also because it is a return to a reality of origin… to travel is to see, …
Read MoreEnfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis’ Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation
Is it a texture, or a fold of the soul, of thought? – Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque Those familiar with the work of contemporary French director Claire Denis will be well aware of her cinematic appeals to the body. Together with her long-running cinematographer, Agnès Godard, Denis is known for eschewing dialogue, character psychology and linear …
Read MoreThe Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft
Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 978 0 262 06252 7 US$34.95 (hb) 448pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) What counts for the orientation of the spectacle is not my body as it in fact is, as a thing in objective space, but as a system of possible actions, a virtual …
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