Past Issues
Issue 7. May, 2017
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Opening Choices
Introduction
Edward Gallafent & John Gibbs
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Significantly Ordinary
Nathaniel Deyo
Rio Bravo: Dude Walks into a Saloon
Pete Falconer
Similar Means to Different Ends: Lola Montés as a Punch in the Gut
Anthony Coman
Intimacy, ‘Truth' and the Gaze: The Double Opening of Zero Dark Thirty
Christa Van Raalte
Under the Skin: Cosmology and Individuation
Catherine Constable
Otto Preminger's Hand in the Initial Moments of Bunny Lake is Missing
Lola Breaux
Articles
Intoxicating Stagecraft: Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and the Mysteries of Theatre in Film
George Toles
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
Michael Walker
V. F. Perkins, 1936-2016: A Tribute
A Tribute to V. F. Perkins
Editorial board
Obituary
Charles Barr
The Cinema of Nicholas Ray
V. F. Perkins
Letter From an Unknown Woman
V. F. Perkins
Audiovisual Essays
The Phantom Carriage: A Revaluation, Parts 1 & 2 (Read authors' statement here.)
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye
Motifs of Movement and Modernity (read author's statement here.)
Patrick Keating
Opening Choices: Notorious (read the authors' statement here.)
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye
This issue edited by Edward Gallafent and John Gibbs. Designed by Katy O’Hare.
Issue 6. December, 2015
Use No Hooks: Maurice Pialat / Manny Farber
Adrian Martin
Only in Dreams: The Big Sleep and Hollywood Fantasy
Nathaniel Deyo
Déjà Vu: Textures of Time
Steen Ledet Christiansen
Moments of Texture
Introduction
Lucy Fife Donaldson
Brokeback Mountain: A Toast
Adam O'Brien
Surfaces, Textures and the Long Take in Death Line
Ian Banks
Reading Space in Cracker
Lucy Fife Donaldson
Passing Time in Frances Ha
James Zborowski
The Best Years of Our Lives: A Dossier
Introduction
James MacDowell
Among My Souvenirs: Couples, Conventions and the America to Come in The Best Years of Our Lives
Nicolas Pillai
Performance and Style in The Best Years of Our Lives
Sarah Thomas
Black Extras in The Best Years of Our Lives
Steve Neale
Viewing the World in Till the End of Time
Edward Gallafent
Book Reviews
A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard (Tom Conley, T. Jefferson Kline, eds)
Douglas Morrey
Découpage (Timothy Barnard)
Douglas Pye
This issue edited and designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson and James MacDowell.
Issue 5. December, 2014.
The Art of Indirection in Trouble in Paradise
Andrew Klevan
Dear Friend: The Shop Around the Corner and In the Good Old Summertime
Josh Cluderay
The Inexpressible: The Sense of the Metaphysical in The Thin Red Line
Katerina Virvidaki
Complex Staging: The Hidden Dimensions of Roy Andersson’s Aesthetics
Julian Hanich
Jim Hillier: 1941 – 2014 - A Tribute
A Tribute to Jim Hillier
Editorial Board
(nostalgia)
Jim Hillier
Ma Nuit chez Maud
Jim Hillier
This issue edited by Alex Clayton and Kathrina Glitre. Design by Lucy Fife Donaldson and Kathrina Glitre.
Issue 4. June, 2013.
Regional Horizons in The Last Detail
Adam O'Brien
Luxury and Largesse in Film
George Toles
Talking Space in Vertigo
Murray Pomerance
Rereading A Countess from Hong Kong: Action, Speech, and Style in Charlie Chaplin's Final Feature
Donna Kornhaber
Only Yesterday
Charles Barr
The Wonderful Country
Pete Falconer
Andrew Sarris: A Tribute
The Devil and the Nun
Andrew Sarris
A Robin Wood Archive (2)
Mashed Marlowe
Robin Wood
Controlling the Situation
Robin Wood
Poet of the Cinema
Robin Wood
Mad Smile of a Hollow Civilisation
Robin Wood
A Matter of Life and Death
Robin Wood
Issue edited by Andrew Klevan and Victor Perkins. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs, and James MacDowell.
Issue 3. January, 2012.
The Fritz Lang Dossier, Part 2
Rush to Judgement: Imperfect Justice in Fury (1936)
Stella Bruzzi
You Only Live Once (1937)
V. F. Perkins
Going Straight: The Past and the Future in The Return of Frank James (1940)
Edward Gallafent
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Mark Rappaport
Guess-Work: Scarlet Street (1945)
Adrian Martin
The Big Heat: Acts of Violence (1953)
Peter William Evans
Human Desire (1954)
Deborah Thomas
Lang With Lacan: The Power of the Gaze in Moonfleet (1955)
Peter Benson
Bonjour Tristesse and the Expressive Potential of Découpage
Christian Keathley
The Texture of Performance in Psycho and its Remake
Alex Clayton
The Cry of the Owl: Investigating Decision-Making in a Contemporary Feature Film
John Gibbs
Issue edited by Douglas Pye and Michael Walker. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.
Issue 2. May, 2011.
The Fritz Lang Dossier, Part 1
Notes on Metropolis
Michael Walker
M: Leading the Blind
Douglas Pye & Iris Luppa
Das Testament des Dr Mabuse
Michael Walker
Susan Hayward in the 50s
Edward Gallafent
Madame Bovary, C’est Moi – Signed, Vincente Minnelli
Mark Rappaport
Psychoanalyse de Psycho / Psychoanalysis of Psycho
Robin Wood
Attitudes in Advise and Consent
Robin Wood
In Memoriam Michael Reeves
Robin Wood
Sense of Dislocation
Robin Wood
Signs and Motifs
Robin Wood
Moments of Release
Robin Wood
Call Me Ishmael
Robin Wood
Issue edited by Douglas Pye and Michael Walker. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.
Issue 1. August, 2010.
Ian Cameron: a Tribute
V. F. Perkins
Films, Directors and Critics
Ian Cameron, reprinted from Movie 2
Access and Excess in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Lucy Fife Donaldson
Sleeping with Half Open Eyes: Dreams and Realities in The Cry of the Owl
John Gibbs
Fugitive Physicality and Female Performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss and Lola
Kate Leadbetter
Notes on Quirky
James MacDowell
At the Border: the Limits of Knowledge in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and No Country for Old Men
Douglas Pye
Limbo: Frustrated Narration
Deborah Thomas
Acting Ordinary in The Shop Around the Corner
George Toles
The Rhetoric of The Wire
James Zborowski
Review: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, 3 – 10 October 2009
Michael Walker
Issue edited by Edward Gallafent and John Gibbs. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.