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Author David Melville

David Melville

David Melville teaches Film Studies and Literature for the University of Edinburgh Centre for Open Learning. He has a special interest in melodrama, fantasy fiction and the aesthetics of dreams.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Open Game – Our Strange Love for Martha Ivers

David Melville
March 2016
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“You’re insane. You’re out of your mind. Me too! You see how close we are to each other?” - Kirk Douglas to Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers It is a dark and stormy night. The oldest and m...
L’Inhumaine film review

Remembering the Future: L’Herbier and L’Inhumaine

David Melville
September 2015
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‘On leaving the theatre one has the impression of having witnessed the birth of a new art.’- Adolf Loos What to say about a film that, ninety years on from its release, is still so far ahead of most of what ...

“Death Has No Master” – Roger Corman and The Masque of the Red Death

David Melville
May 2013
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There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions. There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of what might have excited disgus...

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