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    • Some thoughts on the erotic aesthetic in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Desire Trilogy’

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      “A Film is a Synthesis”: An Interview with Ventura Pons

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      Rotterdam – Delete/Ignore: locating gremlins and glitches in the machine. Or, how I met the humans and parasites of Planet IFFR

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      The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond, by Alain Bergala

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Author Glen Donnar

Glen Donnar

Glen Donnar is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has published diversely on stardom and popular cultural representations of masculinities, monstrosity and disaster in film and television, the mediation of terror in news media, and the ethics of news viewership

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Introduction: Screening Melbourne

Glen Donnar
December 2017
Screening Melbourne
Issue 85
In the Melbourne City Animal Kingdom feels like a suburban Melbourne version of The Godfather to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.  -...
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ReViewing Jimmie: The Critical Reception of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Glen Donnar
October 2011
Fred Schepisi Dossier
Issue 60
The inclusion of Pauline Kael’s 1980 New Yorker review of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith in An Australian Film Reader (1) has been credited with rehabilitating the film’s reputation in Australia, prompting...
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ReViewing Jimmie: The Critical Reception of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Glen Donnar
November 2007
Australian Cinema
Issue 45
How much did Pauline Kael’s 1980 New Yorker review of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith have to do with establishing director Fred Schepisi’s name outside the confines of Australia? This article looks at the ways critics shape and reshape the reputation of a film.

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