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Author Troy Michael Bordun

Troy Michael Bordun

Troy Michael Bordun is a contract instructor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. His Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema: Film Theory at the Fringes of Contemporary Art Cinema (Palgrave MacMillan) was published in 2017, and his recent publications can be found on the sex and culture website Slutever, and in Off-screen and Porn Studies (forthcoming in June). Troy Michael Bordun is a contract instructor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. His Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema: Film Theory at the Fringes of Contemporary Art Cinema (Palgrave MacMillan) was published in 2017, and his recent publications can be found on the sex and culture website Slutever, and in Off-screen and Porn Studies (forthcoming in June).

Unrest (Grandrieux, 2017)

An Alternative to Haptic Cinema: Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema, by Greg Hainge

Troy Michael Bordun
June 2018
Book Reviews
In the first book-length study of French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, Greg Hainge meticulously outlines and details the director’s œuvre, in a study that is structured both chronologically and by media. Haing...
David Lynch

“Whose place is this?”: The Architecture of David Lynch, by Richard Martin

Troy Michael Bordun
September 2017
Book Reviews
Richard Martin’s The Architecture of David Lynch arrived just ahead of the director’s return to television. The reviews of Season 3 of Twin Peaks (2017) make much of the characters, the slowly unfolding mysteri...
The Soul of Film Theory

Lost Souls: The Soul of Film Theory by Sarah Cooper

Troy Michael Bordun
March 2016
Book Reviews
In the first half of the twentieth century, film theorists developed competing concepts of soul in the cinema. According to Sarah Cooper, the concept of soul was employed to assess the psychological aspects of ...

Films for the Senses: Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality, by Tiago de Luca

Troy Michael Bordun
December 2014
Book Reviews
In this work, Tiago de Luca aims to update the concept of cinematic realism by linking classical accounts of realism, as articulated by André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer (the subtitle of de Luca’s volume echoe...

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