Jean-Paul Sartre, Hollywood, Citizen Kane and the Nouvelle Vague
Part I: Dreams I had a lot of dreams about the cinema...I always wanted to make films. I wrote film scripts and some were shot, but in the end it…
Cause and Effect in Merci pour le chocolat
The impact of Hitchcock’s work on that of Claude Chabrol is well known and when Merci pour le chocolat was released in 2000, some critics commented on what they saw…
‘Is Happiness Festival-Shaped Any Longer?’: The Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals and the Growth of Australian Film Culture 1973-1977.
This is the fourth in a series of papers discussing the history of the Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals. Three of our previous papers examined the period from the Festivals’…
Green Olives Seeing Red: Gangsters, Youngsters, and Insurrection in Cecil B. DeMille’s This Day and Age (1933)
In 1933, after a decade of filming wives changing husbands before repenting before the sign of the cross, director Cecil B. DeMille briefly stopped filling his celluloid bathtubs with ass’s…
Holding a Mirror to Iran: Liminality and Ambivalence in Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men
The recent proliferation of Iranian women’s diasporic cinema testifies to the importance of recognising and mapping current trends within the growing field of transnational cinema. In particular, the contribution of…