“She Invited Herself”: Sunday Too Far Away (Ken Hannam, 1975) Wes Felton February 2014 Key Moments in Australian Cinema “Friday night too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away.” – “The Shearer’s Wife’s Lament” Sunday Too Far Away is a film that never quite settles on its identity or purpose. It begins with a ba...
Caught in the Undertow: African Francophone Cinema in the French New Wave Wes Felton December 2010 Feature Articles Contemporaneous with the French New Wave, there were many filmmakers working in France of African origin whose work has rarely been absorbed into the cultural and aesthetic history of the movement. Wes Felton surveys the era to examine the blind spots.
Rewriting Hollywood History in Julie Dash’s Illusions Wes Felton February 2009 Feature Articles Wes Felton analyses this 1982 film set in 1940s Hollywood and its pungent allegory about the racial politics of image/sound displacement.
