In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed, Carl Honoré This is a journalistic, well, journey along the lines of Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking With Einstein.…
The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli, by Joe McElhaney McElhaney doesn’t really posit a definitive death of classical cinema (one can just imagine how the publishers wanted this…
“In the art cinema, for instance, shifts between ‘objective’ action and ‘subjective’ moments are often not signaled by the narration. This creates a suppressed gap which we retrospectively try to…
It’s worth noting at the outset that, although published in 1980, this is a doctoral dissertation from 1976. As such, it is dated and functions chiefly (at this point) as…
Another work from Borwell within his broader project of doing aesthetic/formal film history that doesn’t discount the industrial or economic aspects but nevertheless insists that aesthetics on its own demands…
For my purposes, I only cursorily read the bulk of this and focused on chapter 30, “Since 1960: the persistence of a mode of film practice.” Bordwell/Thompson/Staiger’s method is scientific…
To The Distant Observer: Form and meaning in the Japanese cinema, Noël Burch Burch aims to do something akin to Bordwell/Thompson/Staiger in The Classical Hollywood Cinema, namely, a…
As Peter Bondanella argues in Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present, the movement we now call “neorealism” is as bound up in its own history as it is in the…
Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition (1979) – Cavell is interested in how we experience a film and insists on a sort of starting-over…
Michele Lagny, “The feeling gaze: Jean Renoir’s La Bête humaine (1938)” – The essay traces some of the context of the film’s release, particularly the way it was somewhat ordained to…
Summary of Stanley Cavell’s argument in The World Viewed, taken from Jeffrey Pence, “Cinema of the Sublime,” Poetics Today 25, Vol. 1 (2004), 61-62: “Like [Walter] Benjamin, Cavell insists that to appreciate film’s…
Wrote this a few months back for a seminar presentation. Using it now for studying purposes, posting it here for reference. If anyone who reads this could offer any support,…
Precious Bodily Fluids 