Author Glenn D'Cruz

Glenn D'Cruz

Glenn D’Cruz teaches drama and cultural studies at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial Literature (Peter Lang, 2006), the editor of Class Act: Melbourne Workers Theatre 1987-2007 (Vulgar Press, 2007) and Contemporary Publics: Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture (Palgrave, 2016) — with Katja Lee, David Marshall, and Sharyn Macdonald. His latest books, Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis (Routledge) and Teaching Postdramatic Theatre (Palgrave) will appear in 2018.

Uncanny Suburbia, Hauntology and Post-Traumatic Poetics: Conversations with Dirk de Bruyn’s Conversations With My Mother (1990).

Glenn D'Cruz

November 2017

Screening Melbourne

This reflective essay stages a conversation with Dirk de Bruyn’s autobiographical film, Conversations with my Mother’ (1990) in order to foreground the importance of Melbourne’s working class western suburbs in...

Turkish Cinema’s Resurgence: The ‘Deep Nation’ Unravels

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

New Eastern Promises: The 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Dreaming of the Mountains: The 9th Dharamshala International Film Festival

Ghost Cities: The 58th Viennale

Queer and Australian Features at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

Korean Cinema’s Self-Portrait: The 25th Busan International Film Festival

Live Through This: The 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

“Sense of Place”: The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival

Book Reviews

Revising a Concept: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, by Jonathan Walley

When Everything Seemed Possible: London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis

“Memories Are Made of This”: Juliane Lorenz and Lothar Schirmer’s R.W. Fassbinder: Film Stills, 1966-1982

Beneath the Tuxedo Elegance: Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy

Anarchist Cinema: A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki by Stephen Prince

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

The Woman in the Window

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

del Toro, Guillermo

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

Uncanny Suburbia, Hauntology and Post-Traumatic Poetics: Conversations with Dirk de Bruyn’s Conversations With My Mother (1990).