A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film by Caroline Bainbridge Maria Walsh December 2009 Book Reviews I was intrigued when I spotted the flyer for A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film, as I had just been to a talk by Irigaray at the ICA, London, and had been struck, on this occasion, by how her ...
Cinesexuality by Patricia MacCormack Maria Walsh July 2009 Book Reviews Cinesexuality’s thesis is premised on a desire to want cinema as a lover. What this might mean alerts us firstly to the fact that the book is a title in the Ashgate series Queer Interventions. While cinesexuali...
In and Out of the Blue: Love’s Secret Maria Walsh October 2004 The Suspended Narrative A text written to accompany the 1999 film by Sarah Miles, which uses disjunctive techniques to capture the fantasy and frustration of romantic love.
A City Under the Influence: The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption by Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings Maria Walsh July 2004 Book Reviews The notion of “place” in The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption revolves around two sites, the architectural site of film consumption, the cinema, and the geographical site of the c...
Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film by Giuliana Bruno Maria Walsh October 2003 Book Reviews (New York: Verso, 2002) In Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, Giuliana Bruno wanders through the "field screens" of cinematic culture. She travels from the pre-cinematic montage of vi...
Cinema in the Gallery – Discontinuity and Potential Space in Salla Tykkä’s Trilogy Maria Walsh October 2003 Cinema and the Gallery Examining Salla Tykkä's trilogy, exhibited earlier this year, Walsh argues it's far removed from the deconstructionist mode of film installation, and that it instead explores ideas of spectatorship and emotion, narrative and genre in ways conducive to feminist aesthetics.
