New Punk Cinema edited by Nicholas Rombes Claire Perkins May 2006 Book Reviews Each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Independent Feature Project stage awards ceremonies at the beginning of March which honour achievement in filmmaking over the past year: respec...
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah by Gabrielle Murray Claire Perkins October 2005 Book Reviews The utopian impulse at work in Gabrielle Murray's contemporary account of Sam Peckinpah's films is given away by her book's striking title. Our current state of existence is, for Murray, wounded: relations in t...
This Time It’s Personal: Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media by Laura U. Marks Claire Perkins October 2004 Book Reviews In the opening paragraph of the opening essay of Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media Laura Marks describes the experience of watching a marginal, unknown Pixelvision videotape – “It Wasn't Love” by Sa...
Cinephilia and Monstrosity: The Problem of Cinema in Deleuze’s Cinema Books Claire Perkins July 2000 Book Reviews Reflections on Deleuze's film theory and philosophy.