Cinema’s Ontological Violence: Hamish Ford’s Post-War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy: Confronting Negativity and Time Michael Goddard July 2016 Book Reviews The emergent arena of film philosophy, or rather “film-philosophy” has, over the last decade, given rise to, in roughly sequential order, a popular discussion list, a series of conferences and some outlying eve...
Telephones, Voice Recorders, Microphones, Phonographs: A Media Archaeology of Sonic Technologies in Twin Peaks Michael Goddard July 2016 "I'll See You in 25 Years": The Return of Twin Peaks and Television Aesthetics Introduction A captured Mynah bird “speaks”, activating a voice recorder, ventriloquising the voice of the late Laura Palmer; the bird having itself become a spectral recording device. “Is this thing on” repea...
Polanski in Motion: Roman Polanski: The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller by Ewa Mazierska Michael Goddard August 2008 Book Reviews The familiarity of Polanski’s name both as a filmmaker and as a cultural figure extends well beyond the field of film studies. This could lead to a questioning of whether it is necessary or desirable to have a ...
Towards a Perverse Neo-Baroque Cinematic Aesthetic: Raúl Ruiz’s Poetics of Cinema Michael Goddard February 2004 Perversion Both Ruiz's writings and his cinema are underpinned by a truly unique, radical and perverse aesthetic.
