Film Studies
Film Music: A very short introduction, Second Edition by Kathryn Kalinak
Dark Matter: Independent filmmaking in the 21st century by Michael Winterbottom
The Mysteries of Cinema: Movies and imagination by Peter Conrad
Women vs Hollywood: The fall and rise of women in film by Helen O’Hara
As Victoria emerges from its long lockdown, cinemas, among the last businesses to reopen under the roadmap to recovery, are finally open to the public again. But how will they operate in a Covid-normal world? Have we learnt to live without them?
... (read more)Chasing the Light: How I fought my way into Hollywood: From the 1960s to Platoon by Oliver Stone
How, precisely, does a character unmoor itself from its source material? And how concerned should we be to track its progress – or should that be retrace its steps? These questions bugged me as I admittedly devoured Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series, Ratched. Ostensibly a prequel, it re-contextualises and re-packages the unforgettable villain Nurse Ratched from Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) for entirely different aims, so much so that the original feels hopelessly far away. In fact, there’s little evidence of Kesey at all.
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