Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier Djoymi Baker & Lucie McMahon January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier This dossier represents emerging writers from RMIT University’s undergraduate Film Genre course, as they explore ways that an individual film may use, knowingly play with or revise genre tropes, in the midst of...
The Industrial Nightmare of Tetsuo: The Iron Man Malachy Lewis January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier 鉄男 (Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989) is excruciatingly metal in every sense of the word. An intensely horrifying and fast-paced Japanese experimental horror, it tells of various characters being su...
Constantly Coming of Age: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Amy Maher January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier Richard Lowenstein’s 2001 film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, a loose adaptation of John Birmingham’s 1994 memoir of the same title, follows Danny (Noah Taylor) with his typewriter and guitar in pursuit of...
Tusk: Kevin Smith’s take on body horror Lachlan Campbell January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier Often recognised for his catalogue of self-referential, comic-book-inspired films, director Kevin Smith is seldom acknowledged for his influence upon the body horror subgenre. Instead, this honour is oft attrib...
From Caligari to Psychological Horror Ji Li January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier My initial viewing of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920) took place in 2022. As a 21st-century moviegoer, I had been educated by technically refined psychological hor...
Holding the Man: Love Beyond Conventions – A Cinematic Tribute to Queer Resilience and Enduring Love. Drew Baker January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier It’s been six years since the passing of the marriage equality act, and 43 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in Victoria (1980). With the teaching of Queer sexual education, with programs like ...
