Browse by author: David George Menard

Form Inversion in Alfred Hitchcock, Part 2

In the second of this two-part essay on Hitchcock as a 'romantic ironist' Menard focuses his attention on the distinctiveness of Hitchcock's form of suspense.

Form Inversion in Alfred Hitchcock, Part 1

In this first of a two-part essay David George Menard analyzes the narrative methods of plot inversion as exemplified through Hitchcock's plots which pit ideals of romanticism against their potentially subversive thematic and moral counterparts.

Toward a Synthesis of Cinema -A Theory of the Long Take Moving Camera, Part 2

Part two of Menard's theoretical explication of classical film theory.

Toward a Synthesis of Cinema -A Theory of the Long Take Moving Camera, Part 1

This two-part paper uses Orson Welles The Trial (1963) as a model to explicate Brian Henderson's long take theory. Instead of arguing for or against Henderson's critical standpoint, it uses its classification scheme as a basis for a more thorough understanding of the theoretical gap that exists between the two institutional pillars of cinema, the exclusive theories of Sergei Eisenstein and Andre Bazin.

A Deleuzian Analysis of Tarkovsky’s Theory of Time-Pressure, Part 1

This essay offers a Deleuzian analysis of the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's montage theory of time-pressure, foregrounded against the historical backdrop of Eisenstein's montage of attractions.

A Deleuzian Analysis of Tarkovsky’s Theory of Time-Pressure, Part 2

Part two of Menard's unique 'cine-physics'.

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