Essays

Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard and Those Who Are Not Rich in A Country of Arrangements

An analysis of how Visconti's masterful film The Leopard depicts the consciousness of the aristocracy in all its glory, pompousness, morality, rigidity and imperfections.

Props, Things and Do the Right Thing

An analysis of an often overlooked part of mise en scene, the use of props, in Spike Lee's timeless classic, Do the Right Thing.

Bruce Lee: Authorship, Ideology, and Film Studies– Part 1

Kyle Barrowman tackles the thorny theoretical debate of authorship employing Hong Kong mega-action star Bruce Lee in an effort to bring the study of film, at least where Lee is concerned, back to the text. In Part 1 Barrowman lays out the theoretical battleground and in Part 2 he demonstrates the potentialities of a return to the text by doing a close formal analysis of Lee's The Way of the Dragon.

Mann and his Discontents

A defining essay that argues for the consideration of Michael Mann as a "great contemporary auteur."

Garbo, Auteur…?

Greta Garbo was a mega star at a studio renown for "having more stars than the heavens," MGM. What impact did this have on Garbo's control over her persona? Was she the author of her image? Elaine Lennon tackles this issue in her well-researched industry analysis of Garbo at MGM.

“Unmasking” The Phantom of the Opera: An early lexicon for the horror film

A close formal analysis of the famous unmasking scene, which reveals a veritable lexicon horror film ideas.

The Turin Horse: A Numbers Game

An analysis of Tarr's final masterpiece, The Turin Horse, which breaks down its structuring use of the numbers two and six.

Nature and Grace, Image and Thought: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life

A nuanced analysis of the subtle complexities of image and thought in Malick's masterpiece, The Tree of Life.

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001) as Intertextual, Reflexive Monster

An analysis of the cinematic allusions found in Spielberg's underrated science-fiction film A.I..

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2001: A Space Odyssey Uncovering the intelligence from what may appear to be an unintelligible text

An analysis of Kubrick's SF masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, which suggests taking a cue from the text itself in terms of our desire to know the meaning of things: accept our limitations.

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Colin Low: Canadian Renaissance Artist

An appreciation of Colin Low, by Donato Totaro, in the context of the hommage to his works by Hors Champ.

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Colin Low, an Anglophone in Quebec

A sterling career overview of Canadian legend Colin Low.

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Teaching the World: World Affairs in Foreign Films: Getting the Global Picture

The theme of foreign films is front and center in Daniel Garrett's review of the book by Roberta Seret, World Affairs in Foreign Films: Getting the Global Picture, and a review of Wayne Wang’s film Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (and other films).

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Not the Long Goodbye: Some Thoughts on the Role of the Web in the Survival of Celluloid

Salmon's excellent think-piece is a great companion piece to Offscreen's Volume 15, Issue 10 treatment of the "end of celluloid," suggesting that the online streaming and archiving of movies beyond the mainstream holds an important resource for the future of cinephilia and film education.

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Bloodcurdling Holiness in Black Narcissus

A close examination of the horror elements at play in the Powell & Pressburger masterpiece of female hysteria, Black Narcissus.

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