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      Tony Williams
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      Tony Williams
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      Tony Williams
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      Tony Williams
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      Issue 92
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      Tony Williams
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      Issue 92
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      Tony Williams
      October 2019
      Issue 92
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      Tony Williams
      October 2019
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      Tony Williams
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      Tony Williams
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      Tony Williams
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Author Tony Williams

Tony Williams

Tony Williams is Professor and Area Head of Film Studies in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. A frequent contributor to CTEQ Annotations on Film, he has recently published the second edition of Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an American Filmmaker. The second edition of Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Filmis scheduled for December 2014. The second edition of The Cinema of George Romero and an edited collection of essays, Postcolonialism, Diaspora, and Alternative Histories: The Cinema of Evans Chan, will appear in 2015.

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1924: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov)

Tony Williams
December 2017
100 Years of Soviet Cinema
Issue 85
Long recognised as the pioneer of the “Kuleshov effect”, teacher of future cinematic talents such as Sergei Eisenstein (who attended Kuleshov’s Film Workshop for three months during 1922-1923),...
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Goupi mains rouges

Tony Williams
November 2014
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 73
Though lesser known than some of his later films, Goupi mains rouges (1943) was Jacques Becker’s second solo feature and received acclaim at the time of its appearance in Occupied France. It also became the...
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Ride the High Country: The Once and Future Sam

Tony Williams
October 2014
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 72
Popularly viewed as Peckinpah’s first accomplished film following the compromised The Deadly Companions (1961), Ride the High Country (1962) has been mostly seen as the director’s farewell to the...
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Le Quai des brumes

Tony Williams
November 2013
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 69
Le Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938) opens on a fog-swept, darkened rural road leading to the port of Le Havre. A truck driver narrowly avoids crashing into the hitchhiking figure of colonial Army...
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A Touch of Zen

Tony Williams
September 2013
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 70
Celebrated as the first non-Mainland Chinese film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival (in 1975), and released during the peak of contemporary Western fascination with the martial arts genre epitomised...
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The Big Parade

Tony Williams
September 2013
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 68
Viewing The Big Parade 88 years after its initial release, and 25 years following its inclusion in my upper-level course on the war film, elicited complex feelings. On the one hand, although the film still...
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The Man From Laramie

Tony Williams
May 2013
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 67
Due to conflict and an eventual breach over the making of Night Passage (James Neilson, 1957), The Man From Laramie (1955) became the final collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart whose...
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

Tony Williams
August 2012
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 64
Long recognised as the pioneer of the “Kuleshov effect”, teacher of future cinematic talents such as Sergei Eisenstein (who attended Kuleshov’s Film Workshop for three months during 1922-1923),...
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Le Corbeau

Tony Williams
November 2011
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 61
As Alan Williams notes, “Le Corbeau is an essential work for world film history, if only because its meanings are still being debated” (1). Filmed during the Occupation by the German controlled Continental...
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Dangerous Encounters – First Kind

Tony Williams
March 2011
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 58
Dai yat lai aau him (Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind/Dangerous Encounters – 1st Kind) was the third film directed by Tsui Hark. Following his stylish first feature, Die bian (The Butterfly Murders,...
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Centre Stage

Tony Williams
October 2010
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 56
Winner of many awards at national and international film festivals and the subject of several articles and one monograph – by Mette Hjort – in Hong Kong University Press’ New Hong Kong Cinema Series,...
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Collision and Contradiction: The Steel Helmet

Tony Williams
September 2009
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 52
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