Three Small Gestures
A general understanding of the gesture - its ideal proportion, the conventions and parameters of its normal usage, its relation to or putative origin in expression and feeling - is…
The Sensations of Aisthesis “Exposed” in William Castle’s The Tingler (1959)
I am William Castle, director of the motion picture you are about to see. I feel obligated to warn you that some of the sensations - some of the physical…
Into the Neon Horizon: The Postmodern Vision of Walter Hill
To date, filmmaker Walter Hill has received relatively little scholarly attention - this, despite Michael J. Anderson's contention that "the director's exceptionally rich first decade of productivity" constitutes "one of…
“The One and the Eight” and cultural production in modern China: how a poem about the Anti-Japanese War written in the 1950s was transformed as a film in the 1980s and for television in 2015.
一个和八个 Guo Xiaochuan's (1919-1976) poem "The One and the Eight", written in 1957, has subsequently been adapted as a film that was released in 1984, and a thirty nine episode…
Elaine May: Dispassionate
I. Schmuck Elaine May made her film-directing debut in 1971 with A New Leaf, in which she also appeared. This was preceded by many years of stage work, most notably…