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Author Rebecca Harkins-Cross

Rebecca Harkins-Cross

Rebecca Harkins-Cross is a freelance writer. She holds a B.A. (Media and Communications) from the University of Melbourne, majoring in Cinema Studies, and recently completed an honours in English for which she received the Percival Serle Prize. Her thesis examined psychoanalysis’ capacity to account for the non-white woman through the work of Toni Morrison.

New Horizons film festival review

Frontiers of Vision: The 15th T-Mobile New Horizons Film Festival

Rebecca Harkins-Cross
September 2015
Festival Reports
At the closing night ceremony of the 15th T-Mobile New Horizons Film Festival, the host asked each winning filmmaker that graced the stage what “new horizons” meant to them. Awkward answers aside, it was also a...

Searching for the Self in Fassbinder’s In a Year with Thirteen Moons

Rebecca Harkins-Cross
June 2011
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder epitomises the figure of the true auteur. Mythologised as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, the legend surrounding Fassbinder – his inhuman prolificness, his tempestuous per...

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