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Author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas has written eight books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema with a particular focus on gender politics, including Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (University of Wales Press, 2019) and, most recently, 1000 Women in Horror: 1895-2018 (BearMedia, 2020). She has co-edited five books including ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and the Thames & Hudson catalogue for the 2018 ACMI exhibition Wonderland about Alice in film. Alexandra is a Research Fellow at RMIT University and an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University, and she was an editor at Senses of Cinema until from 2015 to 2018.

Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2020
Festival Reports
In 2016, the 5050x2020 campaign was launched by the Swedish Film Institute at the Cannes Film Festival, and big names were there to share in the announcement including the Swedish Minister for Culture and Democ...

Sharing My Journey: Women and the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2019
Festival Reports
To say that in recent years that broader amorphous beast loosely called “the film industry” has been the centre of often high-profile discourse about gender inequality is an understatement. Beginning in 2017, t...
Roberta Findlay

What’s Inside a Girl?: Porn, Horror and the Films of Roberta Findlay (Issue 80, September 2016)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2019
Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema
Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 80, September 2016. “You know the money shots in porn films? Well, this was just a different substance: it was red” – Director Roberta Findlay on the relationshi...

Introduction: The Analogues of Peter Strickland

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and John Edmond
July 2019
The Analogues of Peter Strickland
One way of thinking about Peter Strickland’s works is as baubles of obsession. They are little spheres of influence, spheres of logic that marry fecund dialogue and audiovisual atmosphere with field recordings ...

Outrage (1950): Ida Lupino’s Vision of Rape Trauma

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2018
CTEQ Annotations on Film
In a cultural and industrial landscape significantly altered by the barrage of sexual-abuse and harassment allegations against now-notorious Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in late 2017 that sparked the #Me...

Three Mothers Redux: Kathy Acker, Pina Bausch, Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
October 2018
Feature Articles
Amongst the 260 odd pages of Kathy Acker’s 1993 experimental novel My Mother: Demonology, somewhere near the front of that iconic postmodern feminist writer’s book is featured a chapter called “Clit City”. Fram...
Traps (1998)

Comedy and the Castratrice: Věra Chytilová’s Traps (1998)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
June 2018
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Rape-revenge films directed by women are a rarity, and rape-revenge comedies even rarer; somehow, connecting the two, we find queen of the Czech avant-garde Věra Chytilová and her 1998 film Pasti, pasti, pastič...

Dancing Daze and the Case of the Missing Campion

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
June 2018
Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia
The great misnomer that “everything is online” revealed to me once again how flawed an assumption it is about a year ago when I was thinking through my earliest memories of Australian women filmmakers. I feel I...
Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani

Split/Screen
Cattet/Forzani

John Edmond and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
June 2018
Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani
This dossier coincides with retrospectives of the work of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Queensland Film Festival in July and August, 2018. This dossier is ...
Let the Corpses Tan

Facial Landscapes: Elina Löwensohn and Let the Corpses Tan (2017)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
June 2018
Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani
Our planet has provided the most beautiful and ever changing natural landscapes in the form of mountains, oceans, forests and deserts. Human beings remain astonished by these variegated marvels of nature, sculp...

“Sudden Changes in the Weather”: Symptoms (José Ramón Larraz, 1974)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
March 2018
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Catalan filmmaker José Ramón Larraz’s psychological horror film Symptoms – a UK production – was the British entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974. Despite this, the film was considered all but lost for dec...
Alice in Wonderland Marilyn Manson

Abandoned Alice: Marilyn Manson’s Unmade Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
March 2018
Alice in Wonderland
This is how the story goes: iconic shock-goth-glam-rock darling Marilyn Manson once tried to make a film about Lewis Carroll and Alice’s Wonderland tales, but so outraged were the public by the trailer alone th...

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