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Essays

1.

An analysis of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's (partial) change of pace gendaigeki, Tokyo Sonata.

2.

An essay comparing Pascal Lugier's Martyrs (2008) with Georges Franju's 1959 classic, Les yeux sans visage.

3.

Garrett draws on both critical works on Pasolini's Notes for an African Orestes and Pasolini’s own theoretical writing to place Notes for an African Orestes in the context of Pasolini’s own filmography and the broader intellectual framework of Pasolini’s varied cultural and political background.

4.

A study of how film treats the past, history, through an analysis of the Denzel Washington film The Great Debaters and the Robert Rosenstone book History on Film/Film on History.

5.

The second of a two-part 'Bazinian' analysis of cinephilia which explores the 'love of cinema' from the perspective of a philosophical search for truth. What does it mean when one expresses a 'love' of cinema? Can this love be a genuine form of reflection, a valid source of one's human expression?

6.

Author Robert Robertson's sixth Offscreen essay on the audiovisual aspects of Sergei Eisenstein.

7.

The first of a two-part 'Bazinian' analysis of cinephilia which explores the 'love of cinema' from the perspective of a philosophical search for truth. What does it mean when one expresses a 'love' of cinema? Can this love be a genuine form of reflection, a valid source of one's human expression?

8.

An analysis of the politicized use of food as a means of generating taboo forms of sensuousness in Iranian cinema.

9.

An overview of the pink films (Japanese erotic films) that featured at the 2008 Fantastic Film Festival.

10.

An introduction to the groundbreaking animation character created by the Fleischer brothers, Ko Ko the Clown.

11.

A comparative analysis of the German expressionist classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Clive Barker's feature debut, Hellraiser.

12.

A sociological analysis of the British science-fiction film, using Quatermass 2 as a case study.

13.

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.

14.

A psychoanalytical analysis using Slovenian theorist Slavoj Žižek’s considerations of Lacan of the concepts love and desire in Patrice Chéreau's Gabrielle.

15.

An analysis arguing for Le Mepris as one of Godard’s most ‘emotionally’ engaged works.


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