Article: Conferences, Robin Wood, and thirty-five years of Literature/Film Quarterly.(Conference notes)

If films can be "intelligent about life," why can't they also be "intelligent about death?" Such a premise was the starting point of Robin Wood's address at this year's Literature/Film Association Conference at Towson University (the address titled, modestly enough, "Films about Dying: Ikiru, Wild Strawberries, and Son Frere"). Juxtaposing Kurosawa's, Bergman's, and Chereau's films, respectively, Wood led the audience through his investigation with the intellectual clarity and wit that has characterized his writing for over forty years. Indeed, what struck me most upon hearing his address was how, although his critical methodologies have shifted over time, his basic ...

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