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Beyond the Grave of Genre
What is the Matrix? Cinema, Totality, and Topophilia
Leary maps the vertiginous images of “totality” presented in The Matrix and its sequels
Tarantino and the Vengeful Ghosts of Cinema
Kill Bill's battle-of-the-exploitation-genres both fascinates and disappoints
To Live and Die in L.A.: Ritual in the Films of Willem Dafoe
A martyr to the cinema: Hallberg traces the meta-narrative of death and transcendence guiding Dafoe's film performances
Looking Away to See: Frazer Lee’s Duty of Care Films
Revealing the danger of passively trusting in those signifying authorised power, these two short horror films emphasise the agency of the viewer in producing meaning
Isolation and Subjugation: The Telephone in the Slasher Film
20 years of menacing phone calls show the changing role of the world's most omnipresent communication technology
The Light and the Darkness: Myth in the Films of Richard Stanley
From Voudou to the spaghetti Western: the mythic underpinnings of Stanley's Gnostic horror films