DR CARY EDWARDS

Popular Film & Emotional Response

26th January 2018 caryTeaching Resources

Some PDFs to help with A2 Film Studies – FM4, Section B The Exorcist Get Out Django Unchained 12 Years a Slave

Watch it Again! Society – on Bright Lights

16th January 201816th January 2018 caryLink

A discussion about Brian Yuzna’s Society http://brightlightsfilm.com/watch-it-again-society-brian-yuzna-1989/#.Wl5zNNGnyhA

Genre Basics

24th November 201724th November 2017 caryVideos

Exploring Identity Crisis and the Symbolic Order in Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1970)

23rd August 201723rd August 2017 caryComment

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[…]

Superman V Objectivism

22nd August 201725th August 2017 caryComment

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[…]

Watch it Again! Joe (John G. Avildsen, 1970)

22nd August 201723rd August 2017 caryComment

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[…]

Thoughts on Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1970)

21st August 201722nd August 2017 caryComment

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[…]