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Robert Burns’s Memory: A Matter of State
Read moreby Paul Malgrati Every year, on 25 January, Burns Night offers a remarkable opportunity for Scottish political parties to issue…
The Place of Breath in Cinema: 10 Years On
Dr Davina Quinlivan The interdisciplinarian is best equipped to walk inside (and alongside) the lands of breathlessness, translating across border-lands wherever possible…
Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha talks Lucrecia Martel
In this interview, Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Lucrecia Martel (out now in our series ReFocus: The International Directors…
Downton Abbey, Britishness and Class
by John White In the second of a short series of extracts from British Cinema and a Divided Nation (EUP,…
Two More Things…Two videoessays on Columbo
by David Martin-Jones In a previous post, David Martin-Jones, author of Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7, explored the recent and enduring…
The Politics of ‘Acting’: Why Cast Comedians?
By Neil Archer What makes a performance ‘truthful’? In one of my previous professional lives, as an actor, this question…
Marvel’s Scarlet Witch: From Page to Screen
by Miriam Kent Wanda Maximoff, known as the Scarlet Witch, is one of Marvel’s most enduring characters. Her history has…
Stars in Cars: A Look at Italian Vehicular Stardom
by Alberto Zambenedetti Sophia Loren relaxing by the side of the road, next to her broken-down Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing.…
Buddhism and Cinematic Technicity-Consciousness
By Victor Fan ‘Cinematic Imaging and Imagining through the Lens of Buddhism’ (from the latest issue of Paragraph) is one…
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror
by Patricia Pisters Watching horror movies Previously, I truly disliked horror films. In the late 1980s Brian de Palma’s Carrie…