Issue 43
Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious by Fabio Vighi
With his book, Fabio Vighi has accomplished something that has been eagerly awaited by those familiar with Italian cinema and psychoanalysis: an examination of Italian
Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny by Barbara Creed
What are monsters? What role do they fulfil in modern society? These are the leading questions that Barbara Creed addresses in Phallic Panic. Cinema is
A Hard Act to Follow: In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art by Bert Cardullo
I write about the cinema because I believe that it is the true Gesamtkunstwerk (or total work of art) and therefore has greater expressive capacity
Garland is to Glamour as Water is to Witches of the West: Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical by Steven Cohan
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical is a beautifully crafted book which seamlessly blends wit, entertainment and academic rigour to produce a
Filmosophy by Daniel Frampton
Sometimes when reading Daniel Frampton’s book about a brave new frontier called “filmosophy” you get the feeling it’s yesterday’s news offering itself up as tomorrow’s
Four Studies by Mikio Naruse
The posthumous international triumph of Mikio Naruse is one of the most unique corrections in film history. - Phillip Lopate, quoted in the booklet accompanying
Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist (Criterion)
I am a Negro. Paul Robeson began his 1958 book, Here I Stand (1), with that simple but absolutely unambiguous declaration. Concert singer, actor, All-American
Luc Moullet 6-Film Boxset (Blaq Out)
In the course of Gérard Courant’s hugely engaging 2001 documentary portrait of Luc Moullet, L’Homme des roubines (The Man of the Badlands), Moullet approvingly cites