Category Archive for: ‘Issue 3 – Classics & Re-runs’

Uploaded 29 May 1998 | Updated 31 July 1998 © This article is a condensed version of the first chapter from Goldstein, Laurence (1994)The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. You are invited to visit the Press’s website:. Vachel Lindsay was reaching the height of his powers when he began to consider the …

Poems by Vachel Lindsay Uploaded 29 May 1998 A RHYME ABOUT AN ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING SIGN I look on the specious electrical light Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white, Wickedly red or malignantly green Like the beads of young Senegambian queen. Showing, while millions of souls hurry on, The virtues of collars, from sunset till dawn, By dart or by tumble of …

Introduction by Chris Berry Translated by Ted Wang, Chris Berry and Chen Mei [1] . Uploaded 25 March 1998 Western film theory is generally subdivided into classical theory and contemporary theory. Contemporary theory consists of a theoretical system which employs structuralist semiotics, psychoanalysis, ideological critique and feminism to interpret cinematic forms. It originated in the mid-sixties and flourished in the 1970s. It …

Uploaded 25 March 1998 If Japanese film was the first non-Western cinema to receive sustained Western interest and Chinese has been the most recent, it is notable that English-language scholarship on these two cinemas has been quite different. For the most part, English-language scholars writing about Japan have been silent about the critical reception of Japanese film in Japan and …

[1] Uploaded 29 May 1998 | Updated 31 July 1998 Combining words with images for narrative purposes dominates work by some of New Zealand’s most important contemporary painters, just as their use of landscape to comment on New Zealand rather than merely glorify its spectacular beauty also distinguishes the work of modern era New Zealand painters from their predecessors. In …