Tara Brabazon – Senses of Cinema

From Leotards to Lyotard: Pandora’s Box: Essays in Film Theory by Barbara Creed

July 2004

Most of the time, I am extremely glad to have completed postgraduate degrees in the 1990s. It was certainly a strange time. Jane Fonda's leotards were replaced by postmodern Lyotards. Derrideans dueled with DaG...

“You’ve Got to Have a Good Haircut”: Live Forever and an End of Spin

Tara Brabazon

April 2004

Politics and the Documentary

Like other recent British TV programs and films, Live Forever performs an ironic semiotic critique of popular culture, in particular revealing, in nostalgic fashion, a moment in contemporary British cultural history when local music and politics stood for something.

The Spectre of the Spinster: Bette Davis and the Epistemology of the Shelf

Tara Brabazon

April 2001

Feature Articles

Combining the personal, the political, the intellectual and a passion for Bette Davis in a spectacular, riveting way.

We’ll always have Paris? Fighting the People’s War in Popular Memory

Tara Brabazon

January 2000

Feature Articles

An analysis of Casablanca, with reference to the complex interrelations between film, popular memory and the representation of history.

An Interview with Denis Côté

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

The Locarno Film Festival is dead, Long Live the Locarno Festival: The 70th Locarno (Film) Festival

The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID

Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

Lest We Forget: the 31st FID Marseille

A Vitalising Cinema in an Agitated Age: The 58th New York Film Festival

Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience

Your Daughters Come Back to You: The 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival

European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood by Thomas Elsaesser

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

War, Community, and the Cinema: Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy by Hermann Kappelhof and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

The Perfect Conditional: Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard

Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan

The Restless Spectator: Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, by Sarah Keller

Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar

Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes, 1988)

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

Rossellini, Roberto

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

From Leotards to Lyotard: Pandora’s Box: Essays in Film Theory by Barbara Creed

“You’ve Got to Have a Good Haircut”: Live Forever and an End of Spin

The Spectre of the Spinster: Bette Davis and the Epistemology of the Shelf

We’ll always have Paris? Fighting the People’s War in Popular Memory

Author Tara Brabazon