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      Alison Taylor
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Author Alison Taylor

Alison Taylor

Alison Taylor teaches at Bond University, Australia. She is the author of Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema and has a forthcoming monograph on Andrzej Żuławski's Possession. She is currently co-writing a book with Jason Jacobs on the work of Nicolas Winding Refn for the SUNY Press Horizons of Cinema Series.

“A ghost mob”: Interview with Sandra Wollner

Alison Taylor
October 2020
Interviews
In February this year, Sandra Wollner’s contentious film, The Trouble with Being Born (2020) debuted at Berlinale, earning a Special Jury prize. In August, the film was due to have its Australian premiere as pa...

Tangled Worlds – The Natural and Fantastic in Peter Strickland’s Katalin Varga and Berberian Sound Studio

Alison Taylor
July 2019
The Analogues of Peter Strickland
"But round the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be seen, not even the ...
The Piano Teacher

The Avoidance of Love: The Piano Teacher (2001) as Anti-Melodrama

Alison Taylor
February 2017
CTEQ Annotations on Film
In 1991, Isabelle Huppert starred in Claude Chabrol’s Madame Bovary, a film that charts the fall of Gustave Flaubert’s tragic heroine. Emma’s idealistic longing for earth-shattering romance is unmet in the real...
Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema

Two or Three Things I Know About Her: Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema, by Janice Loreck

Alison Taylor
December 2016
Book Reviews
There’s a moment in Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992) when Dr. Beth Garner tries to warn her on-again off-again lover, Detective Nick Curran, of the danger posed by his prime suspect in a homicide investiga...
Queensland Film Festival

Bold Origins, Unfolding Futures: The Second Annual Queensland Film Festival

Alison Taylor
September 2016
Festival Reports
On the fiftieth anniversary of the very first Brisbane Film Festival (BFF), and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), the Queensland Film Festival has returned t...
trange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (Walerian Borowczyk, 1981)

Alison Taylor
May 2016
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A scalpel lacerates the painting by Vermeer. Margaret, her legs apart, raped, in the kitchen. The portrait of Jekyll’s father destroyed by sulphuric acid. - Extract from Borowczyk’s script. Two images form ...

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