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Audiovisual Essays

Issue 12 (2025)

Henry Rownd – Moments of Integration: A Close Analysis of Odds Against Tomorrow

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Jiří Anger, Veronika Hanáková, Jiří Žák – A Tale of Two Desktops: The First Czech Films in Parallel Worlds

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Melanie Bell & Catherine Grant – Making Fiction Flow

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Pete Falconer – Understanding and Judging (Horror) Movies

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Issue 11 (2023-4)

John Gibbs - Creative Geography, Creative Connections: Candyman

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Lily Ford - Light Hands

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Issue 10 (2022)

Peter Labuza - 'Dance, Camera, Dance: Directorial Choreography in the Live Anthology Drama'

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Lucy Fife Donaldson - 'Tracing the threads of influence: George Hoyningen-Huene and Les Girls (1957)'

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Issue 9 (2020-21)

Henry Rownd - 'Desegregating the Two Shot: The Use of the Frame in The Defiant Ones'

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Patrick Keating - 'Music and Point of View in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'

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Ryan Bedsaul - 'The Sacred and the Profane: Visualising Patriarchal Capitalism in There Will Be Blood

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Issue 8 (2019)

 

John Gibbs - 'Say, have you seen the Carioca?’ An experiment in non‐linear, non‐hierarchical approaches to film history

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Patrick Keating - 'Three Headlines: Lighting and Time in You Only Live Once'

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Patrick Keating - 'Dietrich Lighting: A Video Essay'

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Patrick Keating - 'From Evening to Night: A New Look at Neorealist Lighting'

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Issue 7 (2017)

 

John Gibbs & Douglas Pye - 'The Phantom Carriage: A Revaluation'

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Patrick Keating - 'Motifs of Movement and Modernity'

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John Gibbs & Douglas Pye - 'Opening Choices: Notorious'

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Notes

[1] Gibbs, John (2013) The Life of Mise-en-scène: visual style and British film criticism, 1946-78. Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 131.