Welcome to our inaugural issue! (Issue 1, December 1999) the editors October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 1, December 1999. Senses of Cinema is an online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic dis...
The Audio-Spectator: An Interview with Michel Chion (Issue 84, September 2017) Daniel Fairfax October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 84, September 2017. One of the world’s foremost theorists of sound in the cinema, former Cahiers du ...
Great Directors: Terence Davies (Issue 84, September 2017) Joanna Di Mattia October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 84, September 2017. “Only Through Time Time is Conquered” Early in Of Time and the City (2008), Tere...
Miyazaki’s Heroines (Issue 40, July 2006) Freda Freiberg October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 40, July 2006. Girls occupy a distinctive place in Japan’s mass media, including films and literatur...
Great Directors: Maya Deren (Issue 23, December 2002) Wendy Haslem October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 23, December 2002. Eleanora Derenkowsky b. April 29, 1917, Kiev, Ukraine d. October 13, 1961, New ...
Cinema, Race and the Zeitgeist: On Pulp Fiction Twenty Years Later (Issue 72, October 2014) Michael Green October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 72, October 2014. Prologue For many in Generation X, there is the time before Pulp Fiction (1994) and...
Invested in Expression or in Its Destruction?: The Politics of Space and Representation in Chantal Akerman’s Cinema (Issue 64, September 2012) Zain Jamshaid October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 64, September 2012. The objective of this article is to examine the hyperrealist, feminist tactics o...
Erosion by Desire: Marguerite Duras’ Self-Adaptations (Issue 88, October 2018) Danica van de Velde October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 88, October 2018. Towards the end of Marguerite Duras’ 1969 film Détruire dit-elle (Destroy, She Sai...
Of Mechanisms and Machines: Brazil’s New New Cinema (Issue 89, December 2018) Stefan Solomon October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 89, December 2018. Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. To think of Brazil today is to ...
The Mechanics of Continuity in Michael Bay’s Transformers Franchise (Issue 75, June 2015) Bruce Isaacs October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 75, June 2015. In perhaps the most scathing review in the mainstream media of Michael Bay’s Transfor...
Wake in Fright: An Interview with Ted Kotcheff (Issue 51, July 2009) Raffaele Caputo October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 51, July 2009. On its release in 1971, Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff) was unkindly received by Au...
Love and Social Marginality in Samson and Delilah (Issue 51, July 2009) Therese Davis October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 51, July 2009. As I write this, Samson and Delilah (Warwick Thornton, 2009) has just been awarded th...
My Own Private New Queer Cinema (Issue 34, February 2004) Mark Adnum October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 34, February 2004. In this essay, I will argue that the films of “New Queer Cinema” were generally m...
What’s Inside a Girl?: Porn, Horror and the Films of Roberta Findlay (Issue 80, September 2016) Alexandra Heller-Nicholas October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 80, September 2016. “You know the money shots in porn films? Well, this was just a different substance...
Spectacles of Death: Body Horror, Affect and Visual Culture in the Mexican Narco Wars (Issue 84, September 2017) César Albarrán-Torres October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 84, September 2017. This article offers an overview of the highly mediatized nature of the current pha...
“Even God Was Overcome by Laziness”: An interview with Aleksandr Sokurov (Issue 61, December 2011) Marco Bauer October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 61, December 2011. This interview took place at the end of 2006 at the International Film festival M...
Beyond Perverse Allegiance: The Problem of Viewers’ Engagement in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom (Issue 77, December 2015) Paolo Russo October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 77, December 2015. “Perhaps the most successful representation of physical cruelty in the history of c...
Great Directors: Jane Campion (Issue 22, October 2002) Fincina Hopgood October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 22, October 2002. b. 30 April, 1954, Wellington, New Zealand filmography bibliography artic...
Ageing and Memory in Agnès Varda’s Les plages d’Agnès (Issue 67, July 2013) Maryann De Julio October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 67, July 2013. S’imaginer très vieille est amusante (To imagine yourself very old is amusing) Agnès ...
Divine Dog Shit: John Waters and Disruptive Queer Humour in Film (Issue 80, September 2016) Stuart Richards October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 80, September 2016. John Waters is an icon of queer cinema, known for his use of grossness and bad t...
