Author David Ritchie

David Ritchie

Dr David Ritchie is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne. He has research interests in screen narrative, grief and loss and gender issues.

Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art book review

Beyond the Fugue State: The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art by Dirk de Bruyn

June 2015

In this original and dense cinema study, Dirk de Bruyn redefines the experimental and the avant-garde as “materialist film”, but in a much broader way than Peter Gidal’s anti-illusionist notion, given de Bruyn’...