Rosalind Galt, “Pretty: Film Theory, Aesthetics, and the History of the Troublesome,” Camera Obscura 71, Vol. 24, No. 2 (May 2009): 1-41. Platonic binary of image and word, sublimation of image…
That unfortunately lofty title implies that there’s a lot more below it than there can reasonably or realistically be. However, after hundreds of consecutive posts of particular films (interspersed with…
With a particular attraction toward Japanese film, am trying to lessen the number of important works that I haven’t seen. One that can now be crossed of the list (in…