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Eisenstein, Montage and 'filmic writing'
(Brill, 2004)This essay considers the ways in which Eisenstein’s interest in the ideogram as a model for film language was reconsidered and reconfigured in the work of the French film theorist Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier in the ... -
Matka: Muteness, Metaphor, Metonymy
(2013)To say that Matka presents us with essential truths about the human condition may sound trite at best. Nonetheless, the film’s very resistance to a reductive reading along these lines suggests the possibility of a ... -
The Spectacle of Suffering: The 'Woman's Film' and Lars von Trier
(2012)Many of the films of Lars von Trier can be situated within the context of the ‘woman's film’ and, more specifically, within its subgenre of the maternal melodrama. However, the films' intensification of the investments ... -
Realism and Eroticism: Re-Reading Bazin
(2013)Bazin s distinction between different kinds of realism discriminates between an authentic mode of apprehension and mere sight, or between revelation and spectacle, as it were, where spectacle, significantly, is connected ... -
'I can't leave her': Maternal Gothic/Horror in Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018), Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020), and You Are Not My Mother (Kate Dolan, 2021)
(Routledge, 2025)If it is the case that Mrs Bates gave birth to the modern American horror film, then her successors continue to disrupt family dynamics in ways that speak to contemporary Western cultural anxieties around the maternal ... -
What Children See: Dorthe Scheffmann's The Beach (1995)
(2016)This film focuses on an unexpected reaction to a traumatic revelation, witnessed by a child. However, the final image of the boy resists reduction to its significance for an adult spectator. Instead, the boy’s unreadable ... -
The Perfect Human and 'modern cinema'
(2015)While this film has been described as ‘modern’ in terms of its style and structure, approaching the film as ‘modern cinema’ in the terms defined by Richard Rushton allows us to consider the effects of its deliberate ... -
The art of keeping time
(2020)Like the protagonist, both the short story and the short film are subject to the demand to arrive ‘on time’. Violently freed from the imperatives of conventional storytelling, this film considers the moment when the laws ... -
The Babadook, maternal gothic, and the 'woman's horror film'
(Routledge, 2019)Like many Australian films, The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) initially fared far better overseas than it did at home. Arguably, this can be attributed to several factors that apply to Australian cinema as a whole: ... -
'Sheer Epidermis': 'Face Politics' and the Films of Lynne Ramsay
(Edinburgh University Press, 2022)Wrapped in curtains, fishing nets, plastic bags; hidden by hair or completely cut off; faces in Lynne Ramsay’s films are often absent, incomplete or inaccessible. Framed in tight close-up they can be no less remote, ... -
Mapping her-self: ‘Ma and Da’, Small Deaths, Gasman and the ‘mobile home’
(2021)Challenging the view of home as the very opposite of voyage, Giuliana Bruno suggests that houses and films share certain similarities insofar as both could be considered inherently mobile sights/sites of passage. Taking ...
