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    • American Utopia: Socio-economic Critique and Utopia in American Honey and The Florida Project

      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
      October 2019
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      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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    • This Is Not Another Reading of a Master: The Invention of Robert Bresson: the Auteur and his Market, by Colin Burnett

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      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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      October 2019
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      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
      October 2019
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      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas has published five books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema with a particular focus on gender politics. Her books include Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), Found Footage Horror Film: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (McFarland, 2014), a 2016 monograph on Dario Argento’s Suspiria (part of Auteur’s Devil’s Advocates series), a 2017 book on Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 as part of Wallflower/Columbia University Press’s Cultographies series, and in 2018, a book on Robert Harmon's 1986 film The Hitcher, published by Arrow Books. She is currently working on books including 1000 Women in Horror, a book on art and intertextuality in giallo cinema, and co-editing a collection about the film work of Elaine May for Edinburgh University Press's ReFocus series. Alexandra was an editor at Senses of Cinema until March 2018.

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Sharing My Journey: Women and the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2019
Festival Reports
Issue 92
To say that in recent years that broader amorphous beast loosely called “the film industry” has been the centre of often high-profile discourse about gender inequality is an understatement. Beginning in...
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What’s Inside a Girl?: Porn, Horror and the Films of Roberta Findlay (Issue 80, September 2016)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2019
Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema
Issue 92
Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 80, September 2016. “What's inside a girl? Ain't no hotter question in a so-called civilized world.” – The Cramps, “What’s Inside a Girl?”...
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Introduction: The Analogues of Peter Strickland

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
July 2019
The Analogues of Peter Strickland
Issue 91
One way of thinking about Peter Strickland’s works is as baubles of obsession. They are little spheres of influence, spheres of logic that marry fecund dialogue and audiovisual atmosphere with field...
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Outrage (1950): Ida Lupino’s Vision of Rape Trauma

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2018
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 88
In a cultural and industrial landscape significantly altered by the barrage of sexual-abuse and harassment allegations against now-notorious Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in late 2017 that sparked the...
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Three Mothers Redux: Kathy Acker, Pina Bausch, Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2018
Feature Articles
Issue 88
Amongst the 260 odd pages of Kathy Acker’s 1993 experimental novel My Mother: Demonology, somewhere near the front of that iconic postmodern feminist writer’s book is featured a chapter called “Clit...
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Comedy and the Castratrice: Věra Chytilová’s Traps (1998)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
June 2018
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 87
Rape-revenge films directed by women are a rarity, and rape-revenge comedies even rarer; somehow, connecting the two, we find queen of the Czech avant-garde Věra Chytilová and her 1998 film Pasti, pasti,...
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Dancing Daze and the Case of the Missing Campion

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
June 2018
Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia
Issue 87
The great misnomer that “everything is online” revealed to me once again how flawed an assumption it is about a year ago when I was thinking through my earliest memories of Australian women filmmakers. I...
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Split/Screen
Cattet/Forzani

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
June 2018
Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani
Issue 87
This dossier coincides with retrospectives of the work of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Queensland Film Festival in July and August, 2018. This dossier...
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Facial Landscapes: Elina Löwensohn and Let the Corpses Tan (2017)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
June 2018
Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani
Issue 87
Our planet has provided the most beautiful and ever changing natural landscapes in the form of mountains, oceans, forests and deserts. Human beings remain astonished by these variegated marvels of...
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“Sudden Changes in the Weather”: Symptoms (José Ramón Larraz, 1974)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
March 2018
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 86
Catalan filmmaker José Ramón Larraz’s psychological horror film Symptoms – a UK production – was the British entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974. Despite this, the film was considered all but...
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Abandoned Alice: Marilyn Manson’s Unmade Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
March 2018
Alice in Wonderland
Issue 86
This is how the story goes: iconic shock-goth-glam-rock darling Marilyn Manson once tried to make a film about Lewis Carroll and Alice’s Wonderland tales, but so outraged were the public by the trailer alone...
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Girls on Film: Growing Up with Cinema Papers

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
July 2017
Pioneering Australian Women
Issue 83
The first dedicated film magazine I ever bought was in March 1988, Issue #68 of the Australian publication Cinema Papers. Nick Cave was on the cover to promote the release of John Hillcoat’s Ghosts… of the...
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