Katherine A. Fowkes, Giving up the Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0 8143 2721 4 (paper) 202pp US$ 24.95…
Charles Barr, Vertigo. London: BFI publishing, 2002. ISBN: 0 85170 918 4 87pp UK£8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) If ever a film deserved its own monograph, it…
The serial killer film is nothing if not prolific: Robert Cettl discusses over six hundred examples in his annotated filmography, Richard Dyer argues that there are over two thousand serial…
Uploaded 1 March 2001 The growing literature on Unforgiven (US 1992) suggests that the film attempts to examine several intersecting concerns. [1] These include generic issues pertaining to the western, such as…
This special dossier contains research originating from the “Sea Change: Transforming Industries, Screens, Texts” conference, which was staged at Victoria University of Wellington in November 2016. This highly successful event…
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…
Laurence A. Rickels, The Vampire Lectures. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. ISBN: 0 8166 3392 4 (pb) 358pp US$17.00 (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press)…
Janet Bergstrom (ed.), Endless Night: Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0 520 20748 3 305pp Au $33.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University…
2018 marked the fortieth anniversary of John Carpenter’s pivotal slasher film Halloween (1978) and the release of yet another sequel, Halloween (David Gordon Green, 2018), in which Laurie Strode (Jamie…
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) is a site of cultural fascination. Brian de Palma has remade the film twice (Obsession [1976], Body Double [1984]), while it has been reworked or quoted…