Cornelia Klecker. “Mind-Tricking Narratives: Between Classical and Art-Cinema Narration.” Poetics Today, Vol. 34, No. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2013): 119-146. For my purposes, I’ll skip to the parts that relate to art cinema.…
Chuu, Sharon et al. “Exploring Art Film Audiences: A Marketing Analysis.” Journal of Promotion Management Vol. 15, No. 1/2 (2009): 212-228. The study reveals no real surprises, mainly demonstrating by quantitative…
“Doing time: ‘slow cinema’ at the AV Festival,” Henry K. Miller, BFI Sight & Sound Miller differentiates these films (also from the titular AV Festival) from those of Hitchcock right…
“‘Slow cinema’ fights back against Bourne’s supremacy,” Sukhdev Sandhu, The Guardian Essay/report has to do with the AV Festival 12, a film festival in the UK that touts films that are…
André Bazin, “On the politiques des auteurs,” in Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave, ed. Jim Hillier. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985: 248-259. Bazin’s essay carefully takes…
Amédée Ayfre, “Neo-Realism and Phenomenology,” in Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave, ed. Jim Hillier: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Ayfre takes issue with the term “Neo-realism,”…
Alexandre Astruc, “What is Mise-en-scène?” Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave,” ed. Jim Hillier. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985: 266-268. Astruc’s essay is concerned with aesthetic creation…
Vivian Sobchack, “Embodying Transcendence: On the Literal, the Material, and the Cinematic Sublime,” Material Religion 4 (2008): 194-203. Published 17 years after her important The Address of the Eye, this article…
Andrew Quicke, “Phenomenology and Film: An Examination of a Religious Approach to Film Theory by Henri Agel and Amédée Ayfre,” Journal of Media and Religion 4, Vol. 4 (2005): 235-250. Quicke…
Jeffrey Pence, “Cinema of the Sublime,” Poetics Today 25, Vol. 1 (2004): 29-66) Pence wants to correct the modernist critical tendency to box in films by means of various theories and…
Brian Price, “The End of Transcendence, the Mourning of Crime: Bresson’s Hands,” Studies in French Cinema 2, No. 3: 124-135. Price’s essay is quite important in Bresson criticism and does a…
Rosalind Galt, “The Obviousness of Cinema,” World Picture 2 (Autumn 2008). Before publishing on the “pretty” (see previous post), Galt wrote this piece for the online journal World Picture on cinema’s “obviousness.”…
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