Robert Burgoyne is professor and chair of film studies at the University of St. Andrews. He is author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, which was released in a revised edition in February 2010. He has been kind enough to allow the University of Minnesota Press to publish a portion of his paper … More The Hurt Locker: Abstraction and Embodiment in the War Film
If the recent wide-release of Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces has sparked your interest in this acclaimed and exciting filmmaker, we’d like to point you to our recent publication All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema, edited by Brad Epps (professor of Romance languages and literatures at Harvard University) and Despina Kakoudaki (assistant professor of literature … More ‘Embracing’ Pedro Almodóvar
One of the most successful films by iconoclastic filmmaker Derek Jarman, Caravaggio (1986), will be screening at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21st, at The Plaza Theatre in Calgary. The film helped launch the careers of Tilda Swinton, Sean Bean, and Robbie Coltraine, and its title character has been coined by Newsweek as “a bold, … More Caravaggio screening + book launch
