This paper was originally presented to London Film & Media 2011, and published in The London Film and Media Reader 1. The Vigilante Thriller This essay considers the condemnatory and heavily ideological critical reactions to[…]
First Presented at the American New Wave: A Retrospective, Bangor University, 4 July 2017 Within the latter three months of 1971 two of the most influential American Police Thrillers were released. One was to[…]
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Some PDFs to help with A2 Film Studies – FM4, Section B The Exorcist Get Out Django Unchained 12 Years a Slave
A discussion about Brian Yuzna’s Society http://brightlightsfilm.com/watch-it-again-society-brian-yuzna-1989/#.Wl5zNNGnyhA
Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (1971) has often been considered a difficult and controversial text. Central to this is the depiction of gender, specifically concerning the role of Amy (played by Susan George) and the double[…]
This article was previously published on Bright Lights Film Journal. Since original publication the excellent Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins) was released, embodying the opposite of Rand’s ideas. It has now made more money than Batman v Superman despite costing[…]
This article was first published by Bright Lights Film Journal. During Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House, more than a few commentators noticed some similarities to George Wallace, and especially Wallace’s 1968 campaign for[…]
On its release Pauline Kael described Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (1971) as; the first American film that is a fascist work of art[i] and Richard Schickel called it “unrelenting evil”[ii]. A collection of thirteen British film critics[…]
