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14 Sep

“Phenomenology and Film…” – Andrew Quicke, 2005

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…
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14 Sep

“Cinema of the Sublime: Theorizing the Ineffable” – Jeffrey Pence, 2004

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…
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14 Sep

“The End of Transcendence, the Mourning of Crime: Bresson’s Hands” – Brian Price, 2002

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…
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14 Sep

“The Obviousness of Cinema,” – Rosalind Galt, 2008

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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13 Sep

“Pretty: Film Theory, Aesthetics, and the History of the Troublesome” – Rosalind Galt, 2009

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…
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12 Sep

“A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema” – Francois Truffaut, 1954

Francois Truffaut, “A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema,” in Movies and Methods, Vol. I, ed. Bill Nichols (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), 224-237. Considering how often it’s cited and…
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12 Sep

“The Godfather…” – Dudley Andrew, 2009

Dudley Andrew, “The Godfather: Critic and Cahiers du Cinéma Founder André Bazin, Still With Us After Fifty Years,” Film Comment Nov-Dec 2009, 38-41. This is a short tribute kind of an essay,…
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12 Sep

“Who Killed Brigitte Bardot? Perspectives on the New Wave at Fifty” – Vanessa R. Schwartz, 2010

Vanessa R. Schwartz, “Who Killed Brigitte Bardot? Perspectives on the New Wave at Fifty,” Cinema Journal 49, No. 4 (Summer 2010), 145-152. This is a shorty but pithy essay in Cinema Journal‘s nouvelle…
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12 Sep

“Praxis as a Cinematic Principle in Films by Robert Bresson” – Donald S. Skoller, 1969

Donald S. Skoller, “Praxis as a Cinematic Principle in Films by Robert Bresson,” Cinema Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Autumn 1969), 13-22. Skoller begins by defining “praxis” as an unfolding of…
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