In his book Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema, author Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute … More Todd McGowan: The Timeless Christopher Nolan
From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London’s plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. Imagining Illness explores, through various essays, the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to … More "HPV Boredom 2" and the future of public service announcements
Has the award-winning and highly Oscar-nominated The Kings Speech rekindled your appreciation for the British heritage film? You’re not alone. Here, author Dianne Sadoff looks at pop-culture spin-off books, films, and other products of Jane Austen and Brontë sisters classics and what they say about American culture.Note: If you do nothing else this weekend, please … More Zombies. Sea monsters. A Fight Club. What the Dickens would Jane Austen say?
Actors Steven Yeun (from left, “Glenn”) and Andrew Lincoln (“Rick Grimes”) struggle to survive an undead apocalypse in AMC’s The Walking Dead. The author wishes to thank Mark Heimermann and Michael Lang for introducing him to the series. BY PETER Y. PAIKAssociate professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of From … More Zombies and Other Strangers: Thoughts on Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead
Photos from Just Jared. In the past week, it has been sporadically reported that Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to play legendary German actress Marlene Dietrich in a two-part biopic that will be the product of a collaboration between HBO, BBC, and EuropaCorp TV. What do you think about this matchup? Vote in the poll … More What do you think: Gwyneth Paltrow as legendary actress Marlene Dietrich?
Scholar J. Kameron Carter looks at the problem of political theology as he sees it within Peter Y. Paik’s book From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe.
Today’s post is by Amy Herzog, associate professor of media studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She is author of Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film. ——- In a sequence from Christopher Nolan’s film Inception (2010), we are introduced to the mechanics of shared dreaming alongside … More Submersion Doesn’t Come Easily: How the musical score in "Inception" is a lesson in collective dreaming. (As well as an ode to Hitchcock’s "Vertigo.")
For those of you who (a) take seriously their morning coffee, tea or hot orange juice and (b) know how to appreciate a good horror film, you’re in luck: there’s a mug for you. Three, in fact: Film critic and former TV Guide editor Maitland McDonagh has created three mugs to commemorate the three editions … More Bloody good glassware to accompany a bloody good book.
George Kouvaros, author of Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America, is associate professor of film in the School of English, Media, and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. A short while ago, I (Maggie Sattler, direct marketing coordinator at the Press) asked him to write for … More George Kouvaros: On The Misfits and seeking a sense of home
Maitland McDonagh is a film critic and TV commentator who maintains her own Web site, MissFlickChick.com. She was the senior movies editor of TVGuide.com from 1995 to 2008. She is the author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento. 1: The Academy Awards this year did what some say was a long … More Maitland McDonagh on horror films and the dark dreams of Dario Argento
