Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality – A Symposium
A Reflection
Has the cinema brought about September 11? Did the terrorists learn their tactics from the action blockbusters of Hollywood? Is the cinema culpable? Such questions
On the Interval between Reality and Unreality
As a counterpoint to Slavoj Žižek’s interpretation of September 11th – the World Trade Centre Twin Towers as symbols of “virtual capitalism” and “the stark
Reality and Illusion
In a recent article published in the Melbourne Age‘s lifestyle supplement, The Good Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard castigated Steven Spielberg, and by extension the Hollywood Dream
Just Like a Movie: September 11 and the Terror of Moving Images
A sulking vagrant arrives in a small American town, equipped with an absurdly large knife and lethal skills gained in the service of the same
Mediation and Affect in New York
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek – always quick off the mark – wasted no time whatsoever in providing, via the internet, his scattered reflections on the
Watching from a Distance: September 11 as Spectacle
I switched on the TV soon after the planes hit, and there were the twin towers smouldering like giant cigarettes. As I watched this ‘live’
Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality – A Symposium
The relation between cinema and reality changed on September 11. All distinction between screen fantasy and the crises of history seemed to disappear in a
Email from Australian Documentary Filmmaker Tom Zubrycki to Friends, New York, September 18 2001
Dear Friends, It’s hard to describe the last few days except that they’ve been traumatic and difficult – yet also strangely life-affirming. Last Tuesday I
A Reflection
the winds of change begin to move hurts of which, they’ve come before telling silent sides to mend their ways upset by random effects and
The End of Cinema?
PROPOSITION: The wound to New York and the wound to cinema are inextricably linked and it is only when New York figures out what it
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