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…
Unfinished before Bazin died, this is his incomplete last word on his favorite director. Truffaut offers notes throughout and gives an introduction, and Renoir himself offers a humble note of…
Film and Phenomenology: Toward a Realist Theory of Cinematic Representation – Casebier’s work is an important one, if an imperfect one. Published at a time when theory was still more…
Almost immediately after opening Hugh Gray’s translation to re-read, I discovered that Timothy Barnard has what Dudley Andrew has identified as the definitive translation of Bazin’s great work. By publishing…
Naficy argues for an “accented cinema,” a cinema defined by a certain style and broken down into various and often overlapping categories. Exile, diaspora, and ethnicity are the first three.…
Precious Bodily Fluids 