Recently added articles from Film Criticism:
Resurrecting the rube: diegesis formation and contemporary trauma in Tony Scott's Deja Vu.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... In Cinemascope's winter 2007 publication (no. 29), Christoph Huber and Mark Peranson declare Tony Scott--whom they contend is "regularly dismissed by critics as an action hack director"--"overdue" for reappraisal (Huber and Peranson). The occasion for this reassessment, according to Huber ...
Unsynched: the contrapuntal sounds of Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... I think that the 100% talking film is a stupidity, and I believe that everyone is of my opinion. But the sound film is a thing of great interest and the future belongs to it. --Sergei Eisenstein Two Notes on Sound Two years after Alan Crosland's The Jazz ...
Topographic economies in Dassin's Thieves 'Highway.(Jules Dassin)(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Buying and selling, together with their psychological appurtenances, are older even than the beginnings of any kind of social forms of organization and alliances: it was rather out of the most rudimentary form of personal legal rights that the budding sense of exchange, contract, guilt, ...
The 59th international Berlin film festival: documentaries rule.(Festivals)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The 2009 Berlinale was the biggest yet. A-list Hollywood figures likes Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Pfeifer, Renee Zellweger, Demi Moore, Steve Martin, John Goodman, Willem Dafoe, and Steve Buscemi joined numerous European and international stars on the red carpet, and, in ...
Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong. By Martha P. Nochimson. Blackwell Publishing, 2007. xiii + 286 pp. $32 paper, $85 cloth. "America, as a social and political organization, is committed to a cheerful view of life. It could not be ...