The auteur theory was addressed early on in the semester – referring as it typically does to the director as an auteur. But a lot has also been said/written about the actor as an auteur. In both cases, there can […]
In thinking further about Deleuze and time – and the notion of horizontal and vertical time – I was reminded of a film I saw recently at the Tribeca Film Festival.
A week or so ago in class, we read/talked about Times Square as a singular film location – the area as it existed in the 1960s being associated with sexploitation films. As someone who moved to New York in the […]
Kristina- sorry to be slow to respond to your question.
I actually did not think too much about Mulvey’s term – though I take your point about her possibly using a more appropriate term if she were writing […]
Mulvey talks of the active/male and the passive/female – with the former looking at the female in a couple of different ways. He either fetishes the female and elevates her to the status of an icon or a pin-up. Or […]
I am still trying to wrap my head around the idea “it is so bad it is good” – a comment that was made in connection with the film Showgirls and/or the director Paul Verhoeven.I certainly get the idea of not […]
Balasz certainly writes eloquently about the close-up in the excerpt from Theory of Film. And I found Maria’s post spoke further to the power of the close-up. But what made it all come alive for me was the excerpt […]
