Author Michael Goddard

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...

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...

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 ...

Both Ruiz's writings and his cinema are underpinned by a truly unique, radical and perverse aesthetic.