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Author John McGowan-Hartmann

John McGowan-Hartmann

John McGowan-Hartmann is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cinema Studies program at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His interests include stop-motion animation and the mythic image.

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King Kong

John McGowan-Hartmann
December 2003
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 29
King Kong (1933 USA 100 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: RKO Radio Pictures Prod, Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper Scr: James Creelman, Ruth Rose Phot: Edward Linden, J.O. Taylor, Vernon L....
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Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder by Michele Pierson

John McGowan-Hartmann
October 2003
Book Reviews
Issue 28
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2002) In the Wachowski brothers' latest Matrix instalment, The Matrix Reloaded (2003), a featured scene presents a battle between Keanu Reeves' Neo and what appear to...

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