Special Dossiers – Senses of Cinema

Special dossiers from 2015 onwards. For older dossiers, visit our issue archive.

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Comedy (Bud Townsend, 1976)

Justine Smith

March 2018
A Networked Daydream: Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Monogram (2004)

David Surman

March 2018
Abandoned Alice: Marilyn Manson’s Unmade Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

March 2018
Alice in the Underworld: The Dark Märchen Show!! (Mari Terashima, 2009)

Anton Bitel

March 2018
Rebellious Alice: Claude Chabrol’s Alice ou la Dernière Fugue (1977) and Stephen Dwoskin’s The Silent Cry (1977)

Darragh O’Donoghue

March 2018
The Curious Tale of Psychedelic Alice: Alice in Acidland (1969) and Curious Alice (1971)

Kat Ellinger

March 2018
All Mimsy Were the Borogoves: The Spectre of Lewis Carroll in Francesco Barilli’s The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)

Samm Deighan

March 2018
Chasing Rabbits out of the Hat and into the SHEDding of Childhood: Alice

Dirk de Bruyn

March 2018
Alice on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Norman Z. McLeod’s Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Joanna Di Mattia

March 2018
“That’s the Great Puzzle: Who Am I?”: Jonathan Miller’s Alice in Wonderland (1966)

Michelle J. Smith

March 2018
Forgotten Dreams: The Tumultuous Life of Lou Bunin’s Alice in Wonderland (1949)

David Heslin

March 2018
Fashion Wonderland: Disney, Dior and the Little Blue Dress

Nadia Buick

March 2018

Cinema and the Museum

The Quarrel of the Dispositifs: Reprise

Raymond Bellour

March 2018
Crossing Boundaries: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s Work in Art and Film

Kate Warren

March 2018
Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia: Museum Studies

Alex Munt

March 2018
Cinema and the Museum: Introduction

Daniel Fairfax

March 2018
The Loop of Belatedness: Cinema After Film in the Contemporary Art Gallery

Thomas Elsaesser

March 2018
On Sound and Artistic Moving Images: Anri Sala’s Acoustic Territories

Catherine Fowler

March 2018

100 Years of Soviet Cinema

1926: Stride, Soviet! (Dziga Vertov)

Barbara Wurm

December 2017
2006: Blockade (Sergei Loznitsa)

Tatiana Efremova

December 2017
1998: Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksei German)

Greg Dolgopolov

December 2017
2003: Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)

Pasquale Iannone

December 2017
1971: Trial of the Road (Aleksei German)

Pasquale Iannone

December 2017
1989: The Asthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova)

Evgeny Gusyatinskiy

December 2017
1985: Come and See (Elem Klimov)

Adrian Danks

December 2017
1972: Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Acquarello

December 2017
1975: Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Sam Ishii-Gonzales

December 2017
1962: Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Fergus Daly and Katherine Waugh

December 2017
1966: Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Hamish Ford

December 2017
1969: The Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)

Rahul Hamid

December 2017

Sartre at the Movies

Before The Battle of Algiers: Sartre, Colonialism, Industrial Cinema, and an Unmade Film

Luca Peretti

September 2017
Holidays and the Movies in Sartre’s Imagination

Dudley Andrew

September 2017
Models of the Public Intellectual: Cinema and Engagement in Sartre and Godard

Daniel Fairfax

September 2017

Screening Melbourne

Affectively Trapped, Fossilised and Fetishised: Early 1990s Melbourne through Stillness, Movement and Music in Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991)

Diana Sandars

December 2017
Leaving Home: Kennedy Miller in Melbourne

James Robert Douglas

December 2017
Before On the Beach: Melbourne on Film in the 1950s

Adrian Danks

December 2017
Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre: “The Best Cinema That Has Ever Been Built or Is Ever Likely to Be Built”

Lisa French

December 2017
Introduction: Screening Melbourne

Sean Redmond and Glen Donnar

December 2017
Uncanny Suburbia, Hauntology and Post-Traumatic Poetics: Conversations with Dirk de Bruyn’s Conversations With My Mother (1990).

Glenn D'Cruz

November 2017
Screenwriting Melbourne/s: The Challenges of Re-presenting and Re-creating Melbourne Within a Screenplay’s Flipped-Reality Narrative

Stayci Taylor

November 2017
Sonic Disturbance and Chromatic Dissolution: The Cantrills remake Melbourne

Tessa Laird

November 2017

Revisiting Budd Boetticher

Revisiting Budd Boetticher: Introduction

Dean Brandum

June 2017
“Don’t Do Things You Don’t Know About”: An Interview With Budd Boetticher

Andrew J. Rausch

June 2017
“What the Hell’s a Nun Doin’ Out Here?”: Budd Boetticher Revised in Two Mules For Sister Sara (Don Siegel, 1970)

Eloise Ross

June 2017
Alone in the Alabama Hills: Budd Boetticher and Lone Pine

Geoff Mayer

June 2017
Budd Boetticher: The Last Hollywood Rebel

Wheeler Winston Dixon

June 2017
“No One Can Kill Me”: The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Budd Boetticher, 1960)

Wheeler Winston Dixon

June 2017
Between ‘Action’ and ‘Cut’: Budd Boetticher’s Performative Arena

Paul Jeffery

June 2017
Budd and Sand – The Aesthetics of Gender in The Bullfighter and the Lady (Budd Boetticher, 1951)

David Melville

June 2017
Deaths in the Afternoon: Arruza (Budd Boetticher, 1972)

Dean Brandum

June 2017
Boetticher’s Bad Men

Jeremy Carr

June 2017
“A Full Woman Like That”: Female Resilience in Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher, 1956)

Amy Taylor

May 2017
Ride Lonesome: The Career of Budd Boetticher

Sean Axmaker

February 2006

Pioneering Australian Women

Pioneering Australian Women Filmmakers: Introduction

Eloise Ross

July 2017
“Film is the Art Form of Today”: An Interview with Nadia Tass

Isabella McNeill

July 2017
Girls on Film: Growing Up with Cinema Papers

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

July 2017
Claudia Karvan: The Girl Most Likely

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

July 2017
Questioning the “Strong Female Character”: Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide (1987)

Blythe Worthy

July 2017
High Spirits: Jo Kennedy in Starstruck (Gillian Armstrong, 1982) and Tender Hooks (Mary Callaghan, 1989)

Eloise Ross

July 2017
Floating Life: The Heaviness of Moving

Stephen Teo

July 2017
Girlhood Wild and Queer: Ana Kokkinos’s Only The Brave (1994)

Whitney Monaghan

July 2017
“Gentle, Tender, Rough, Kind and Cruel”: An Interview with director Mary Callaghan on Tender Hooks (1989)

the editors

July 2017
Trust Your Instinct: An Interview with Ann Turner

Craig Martin

July 2017
Monsters, Masks and Murgatroyd: The Horror of Ann Turner’s Celia

Craig Martin

July 2017
The Spectre at the Window: Tracey Moffatt’s beDevil (1993)

Kate Robertson

July 2017

Contemporary Cinema Studies: A Discipline With A Future?

Contemporary Cinema Studies: A Discipline with a Future? (Introduction)

Daniel Fairfax

June 2017
The Experience of a Gaze Held in Time: Interview with Jacques Aumont

Daniel Fairfax

June 2017
The Cinema is a Bad Object: Interview with Francesco Casetti

Daniel Fairfax

June 2017
We Live in a World of Images: Interview with Dana Polan

Daniel Fairfax

June 2017
A Hybrid and Composite Field: Interview with Vinzenz Hediger

Daniel Fairfax

June 2017
The Possibilities are Still to be Explored: Interview with Angela Ndalianis

Daniel Fairfax

June 2017
Transnational Traffic: Interview with Weihong Bao

Daniel Fairfax

June 2017

Two interviews with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Christian Petzold

Christian Petzold: A Dossier

Jaimey Fisher and Marco Abel

September 2017
Moving Portraits: Christian Petzold and The Art of Portraiture

Jasmin Krakenberg

September 2017
“A Place without Parents”: Queer and Maternal Desire in the Films of Christian Petzold

Joy Castro

September 2017
“The Protestant Method”

Christoph Hochhäusler

September 2017
“Das ist vorbei”: Untimely Encounters with Neoliberalism in Christian Petzold’s dffb Student Films

Marco Abel

September 2017
Ghosts and their Prices: Surveillance and Image Economies in Christian Petzold’s Cinema

William Mahan

September 2017
No Time Like the Present: The Edges of the World in Christian Petzold’s Barbara

Brad Prager

September 2017
The Cinema is a Warehouse of Memory: A Conversation Among Christian Petzold, Robert Fischer, and Jaimey Fisher

Jaimey Fisher and Robert Fischer

September 2017
The Texture of History: Petzold’s Barbara and The Lives of Others

Roger Cook

September 2017
Petzold’s Phoenix, Fassbinder’s Maria Braun, and the Melodramatic Archaeology of the Rubble Past

Jaimey Fisher

September 2017

Love Letters: 1967

1967: Love Letters

the editors

March 2017
In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967)

Joanna Di Mattia

March 2017
A Degree of Murder (Mord und Totschlag, Volker Schlöndorff, 1967)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

March 2017
Accident (Joseph Losey, 1967)

Dean Brandum

March 2017
La Collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer, 1967)

Maura Edmond

March 2017
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)

Alexia Kannas

March 2017
Privilege (Peter Watkins, 1967)

Luke Goodsell

March 2017
Six Men Getting Sick (David Lynch, 1967)

Anton Bitel

March 2017
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

Sandra E. Lim

March 2017
The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967)

David Surman

March 2017
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver, José Mojica Marins, 1967)

Kat Ellinger

March 2017
Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke, 1967)

Rachel Brown

March 2017

Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women’s Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic

Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women’s Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic

the editors

December 2016
Trust Your Instinct: An Interview with Ann Turner

Craig Martin

December 2016
The Spectre at the Window: Tracey Moffatt’s beDevil (1993)

Kate Robertson

December 2016
Monsters, Masks and Murgatroyd: The Horror of Ann Turner’s Celia

Craig Martin

December 2016
Who’s Knocking in My Little House? Ursula Dabrowsky’s Inner Demon (2014)

Donna McRae

December 2016
“You’re a frigid bitch and your friend is a homo”: Coming of Age in Girl Asleep

Michelle J. Smith

December 2016
Making Magic: An Australian Women Horror Filmmakers Roundtable

the editors

December 2016

The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered

The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered (Introduction)

Daniel Fairfax

December 2016
Abbas Kiarostami Gallery

André Habib

December 2016
In Memory of A.K.

André Habib

December 2016
Wind: Serendipity and Cinephilia

Negar Mottahedeh

December 2016
Drinking from a Mirage

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

December 2016
Poetry and Subversion: Kiarostami’s Films for One Diasporic Iranian

Shabnam Piryaei

December 2016
Five to Ten: Five Reflections on Abbas Kiarostami’s 10

Rolando Caputo

December 2003
Kiarostami, Abbas

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

May 2002
A Mirror Facing a Mirror

Jared Rapfogel

November 2001
Taste of Kiarostami

David Sterritt

September 2000

American Extreme

Introduction: American Extreme

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Jack Sargeant

September 2016
The Pornographic Imagination Manifest: Notes On Usama Alshaibi’s The Amateurs (2003)

Jack Sargeant

September 2016
Fear of a Black Phallus: Jamaa Fanaka’s Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975)

Dean Brandum

September 2016
Divine Dog Shit: John Waters and Disruptive Queer Humour in Film

Stuart Richards

September 2016
Deracination, Disembowelling and Scorched Earth Aesthetics: Feminist Cinemas, No Wave and the Punk Avant Garde

Maura Edmond

September 2016
“A Malignant, Seething Hatework”: An Introduction to US 21st Century Hardcore Horror

James Aston

September 2016
Goodbye, McFly: Crispin Glover’s ‘It’ Trilogy and the Cinema of Reaction

Keva York

September 2016
Making Revolutionary Love: Radical Sex and Cooptation in the Films of Bruce LaBruce

Jasmine McGowan

September 2016
What’s Inside a Girl?: Porn, Horror and the Films of Roberta Findlay

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

September 2016
The Invisible Exploding Woman

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

September 2016

Movements: Filmmaker Interviews

New Directions in Screen Studies

Mashup Videos and the Queer Archive

Whitney Monaghan

September 2016
Corporeal Affects and Fleshy Vulnerability: Nonprofessional Performance as Process in L’humanité and Battle in Heaven

Michel Rubin

September 2016
Apparatus Theory in the Age of “New” Media: Three Cases from Cahiers du cinéma

Daniel Fairfax

September 2016
Language matters

Chloe Benson

September 2016
In Her Shoes: Flipped-realities and Female Perspectives in Comedy Screenwriting

Stayci Taylor

September 2016

"I'll See You in 25 Years": The Return of Twin Peaks and Television Aesthetics

Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director

Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director (Introduction)

Daniel Fairfax

July 2016
Lewis, Jerry

Chris Fujiwara

July 2016
Some Basic Characteristics of the Fool (1970)

The Melbourne Film Bulletin

July 2016
Mr Lewis, “The Idiot-Kid” and Me

Jennifer Sabine

July 2016
The Bellboy (1960)

James L. Neibaur

July 2016
The Ladies Man (1961)

Murray Pomerance

July 2016
The Errand Boy (1961)

Marco Grosoli

July 2016
The Nutty Professor (1963)

Scott Bukatman

July 2016
The Patsy (1964)

Nafis Shafizadeh

July 2016
The Family Jewels (1965)

Jeremi Szaniawski

July 2016
Three on a Couch (1966)

Chris Fujiwara

July 2016
The Big Mouth (1967)

Steven Shaviro

July 2016

Jacques Rivette

Manifest Spectres: An Interview with Robert Fischer on Jacques Rivette’s Out 1

David Heslin

July 2016
Jacques Rivette’s Out 1: From First to Last

Donatella Valente and Brad Stevens

July 2016
From the Brontëan Text to the Tableaux: Jacques Rivette’s Hurlevent

Mary M. Wiles

July 2016
A Second Wind: Jacques Rivette and Cahiers du cinéma in the Late 1960s

Daniel Fairfax

July 2016
Charting the Web: At the Demonic, Utopian Heart of Rivette’s 1970s Cinema

Hamish Ford

July 2016
Paris is a Soundstage

Miriam Bale

July 2016
The Captive Lover – An Interview with Jacques Rivette

Frédéric Bonnaud

September 2001

Mono No Aware: The Films of Abel Ferrara, 2005-2015

Mono No Aware: The Films of Abel Ferrara, 2005-2015

the editors

March 2016
Late Capitalist Atrocity Exhibition: Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York

James Slaymaker

March 2016
The Tao of Abel

Rowan Righelato

March 2016
Abel Ferrara gets real: Chelsea on the Rocks, Napoli, Napoli, Napoli and Mulberry St.

Tim O’Farrell

March 2016

Contemporary British Experimental Film & Video

Reflections on Contemporary British Experimental Film and Video

Deniz Johns and Simon Payne

March 2016
Two ‘Machine’ Films: About Now MMX and Ex Library

Nicky Hamlyn

March 2016
1970s Experimental Films: Then and Now

Patti Gaal-Holmes

March 2016
Negative Light: Contemporary British Experimental Film and Video

Simon Payne

March 2016
Beyond the Cringe: Australia, Britain, and the Post-Colonial Film Avant-Garde

Steven Ball

March 2016

Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion

In Memoriam – Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion

Bérénice Reynaud

December 2015
Speech read out during the funeral ceremony for Chantal Akerman at the Père Lachaise cemetery, Tuesday, 13 October, 2015

Delphine Horvilleur

December 2015
A Last Conversation with Chantal Akerman

Esther Orner

December 2015
With Chantal

Marilyn Watelet

December 2015
Tribute to Chantal Akerman by Claire Atherton

Claire Atherton

December 2015
Dear Chantal

Yvonne Rainer

December 2015
I Didn’t See Time Go By

Vivian Ostrovsky

December 2015
About Saute ma ville (1968), Chantal Akerman’s first film

Nicole Fernandez Ferrer

December 2015
Chantal and Some Comrades. Fragments.

Nicole Brenez

December 2015
The Loudness of the World: Listening to What is Out There: Sound Strategies in Akerman’s Fiction and Documentary Films

Babette Mangolte

December 2015
Chantal Akerman: Heartfelt

Janet Bergstrom

December 2015
Projection: On Chantal Akerman’s Screens, from Cinema to the Art Gallery

Giuliana Bruno

December 2015

The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Introduction

Luca Peretti and Daniel Fairfax

December 2015
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Bandung Man”: The Indian and African Documentaries

Pieter Vanhove

December 2015
Comizi di Non Amore: Francesco Vezzoli Revisits Pasolini through Reality TV

Francesco Spampinato

December 2015
(Mamma) Roma between Archaic and Modern Italy: Urbanisation and the Destruction of Poetical Dwelling

Eleonora Sartoni

December 2015
Not to be Reproduced: Pasolini’s Salò and the Question of Visual Arts

Ana Delia Rogobete

December 2015
Beyond Perverse Allegiance: The Problem of Viewers’ Engagement in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò or The 120 Days of Sodom

Paolo Russo

December 2015
Anglo-American Scholarship on Pasolini Today: Cinema and cinema of poetry

Karen Raizen

December 2015
Pasolini’s “Kapadokya”

Ellen Patat and Cristiano Bedin

December 2015
The Profanation of Montage: Pasolini’s Allegorical Death/Cut in the Sequence-Shot

Toni Hildebrandt

December 2015

Australian Film History

Documentary in Asia

The Good Cats of Chinese Documentary

Bérénice Reynaud

September 2015
300 million clicks: Under the Dome and the Chinese Documentary Context

Dan Edwards

September 2015
Mapping Asian Documentary Film Festivals since 1989: Small Histories and Splendid Connections

Ma Ran

September 2015
Wages of Resistance and the Spiritual Problem of Sanrizuka

Markus Nornes

September 2015
On the Banning of a Film: Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, with Love

Olivia Khoo

September 2015
On Whose Behalf? Ethics in Indian Social Documentary Film and Practice

Shweta Kishore

September 2015
Sufi poets, story-telling as performance and non-violence in Indian documentary film

Anne Rutherford and Laleen Jayamanne

September 2015

Focus on David Gulpilil at MIFF 2015

We’re in Another Country – but David Gulpilil is Here to Help

Dan Edwards

July 2015
What Happened To Billy?: David Gulpilil on Mad Dog Morgan

Jake Wilson

July 2015
An Authentic Dreamtime: David Gulpilil and The Last Wave (Peter Weir, 1977)

Lisa French

July 2015

Michael Bay