Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit Bill Schaffer July 2005 Book Reviews This book approaches cinema as a domain in which possibilities of being are potentially at stake. Although often referring to the work of Lacan, Forms of Being appears to move decisively away from the classic p...
The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren Bill Schaffer April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film An exemplary modernist, Norman McLaren was at once a practitioner and a theorist of animated art. Indeed, the most frequently cited attempt to define the specificity of animated art, regularly called upon b...
Moved By Animation – Animation: Genre and Authorship by Paul Wells Bill Schaffer July 2002 Book Reviews (London: Wallflower, 2002) As Chuck Jones reminds us on the back cover of Norman Klein's Seven Minutes (for my money, still the best book on the art of cartoonery) – “animation is not an easy thing to pin do...
Jones, Chuck Bill Schaffer July 2002 Great Directors (Charles Martin Jones) b. September 21, 1912, Spokane, Washington, USA. d. February 22, 2002, Corona Del Mar, California, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources WHADAYA KNOW...
Just Like a Movie: September 11 and the Terror of Moving Images Bill Schaffer November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium A sulking vagrant arrives in a small American town, equipped with an absurdly large knife and lethal skills gained in the service of the same US military interests by which he now feels betrayed. Harassed by an...
The Shape of Fear: Thoughts after The Thin Red Line Bill Schaffer July 2000 Terrence Malick Windswept waves of fear and apprehension. War like no other.
Cutting the Flow: Thinking Psycho Bill Schaffer May 2000 Conference: For the Love of Fear This paper was presented at the Alfred Hitchcock conference For the Love of Fear convened by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, held from 31 March to 2 April 2000. * * * I'm full of fears and I do m...
