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Author Lorraine Mortimer

Lorraine Mortimer

Lorraine Mortimer is an Associate with the Department of Anthropology at Sydney University. She is the translator of The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man: An Essay in Sociological Anthropology (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and author of Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), recently translated into Serbian as Teror i Radost: Filmovi Dušana Makavejeva (Belgrade: Clio & The Faculty of Dramatic Art, Belgrade, 2012).

John Flaus, a Man with Qualities

Lorraine Mortimer
October 2014
John Flaus Dossier
John Flaus Sydney Like anarchist and writer, Ursula Le Guin, and wily old pragmatist, Bertolt Brecht, we can rightly decry our need for heroes. I liked the way that someone introduced Noam Chomsky at an Anar...

Poetry in the Air: Mad Bastards and Toomelah

Lorraine Mortimer
March 2013
Feature Articles
I. Where the Crocodiles Are: Mad Bastards I am really proud of this movie most of all because it does justice to the tough men of The Kimberley who have transformed their lives by tempering their wildness, and...

Something Against Nature: Sweet Movie, 4, and Disgust

Lorraine Mortimer
June 2011
Feature Articles
The author brings together two seminal films from differing eras that challenge audiences in complex and confronting ways.

Introduction to Edgar Morin on Ava Gardner

Lorraine Mortimer
December 2010
Feature Articles
Long-time advocate of French sociologist Edgar Morin’s distinctive analytical poetics, translator Lorraine Mortimer’s introduction provides a context to Morin’s passion for cinema and his intellectual orientation generally.
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The World Tasted: Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie

Lorraine Mortimer
May 2008
Feature Articles
The author of the forthcoming first English-language book devoted to the director, Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev, dissects this most sensuously complex film.

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