ISSN 1712-9559
Essays
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Vesia offers a culturally based analysis of the Gangster film, Hong Kong style.
2.
Totaro explores how certain styles of filmmaking (montage vs. long take style) may be used to activate different cognitive states ('intellect' versus 'emotion').
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It is usually thought that reflexivity in art comes with maturation and development. Hardly, as Morissette demonstrates with her in-depth analysis of reflexivity in early cinema.
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Can cinema reproduce the full sensorial spectrum, and if so, what would this cinema look like?
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Randolph uses Clive Barker's The Forbidden to explore how the Faustian myth of immortality persists in contemporary attempts at reproduction and regeneration through the intersections of art and science, art and nature, and music and film.
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Offscreen welcomes Italian freelance writer Roberto Curti as he analyzes the work of lesser known Italian cineaste Cavallone.
8.
With the sudden passing away of its founder Phil Serling, Offscreen looks back fondly at the unique film festival known as Cinefest.
9.
The Road Movie meets pure movement in the form of Henri Bergson. Part 1.
10.
The Road Movie meets pure movement in the form of Henri Bergson. Part 2.
11.
Should feminist scholarship be looking beyond American horror for a more varied representation of female desire and sexuality?
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Part two of David Neo's subtle analysis of Fractal memory images in Sokoruv's Mother and Son.
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Gilles Deleuze Meets the Mandelbrot set in this theoretical exploration of the memory images in Sokoruv's modern day Kammerspiel classic Mother and Son.
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Offscreen presents for the first time in its orginal English language, this revised version of an essay that appeared in a French translation in Séquence magazine in 1995. Read on to see how Peter Jackson revolutionized horror (or comedy?) with his startling early feature films.
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Part two of Peter Rist's critical assessment of Iranian films that played at the most recent of the major Montreal film festivals.
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