Revealing the Soul of a Cinematic Passeur: Mysteries of Cinema: Reflections on Film Theory, History and Culture 1982-2016, by Adrian Martin Felicity Chaplin March 2019 Book Reviews Mysteries of Cinema, an anthology of the major essays by prolific and internationally-recognised Australian-born film critic Adrian Martin, takes its readers on a whirlwind journey through aesthetics, cinephili...
The Forgotten Auteur: Julien Duvivier by Ben McCann Felicity Chaplin June 2018 Book Reviews “Duvivier is ripe for rediscovery”, declares Ben McCann in the opening to his book on French filmmaker Julien Duvivier and indeed the cineaste is a welcome addition to the French Film Directors series published...
From the Banal to the Extreme… and Back Again: Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema by Alison Taylor Felicity Chaplin March 2018 Book Reviews The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the “new extremism” particularly in French cinema, and the rise in recent years...
