David Lynch Interviews edited by Richard A. Barney Jay Daniel Thompson December 2011 Book Reviews I have been a David Lynch fan for many years. His cryptic narratives and the sense of dread that pervades his films have always gripped me. As a former cinema studies student, I have also enjoyed his intertextu...
Darwin’s Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema by Barbara Creed Jay Daniel Thompson June 2011 Book Reviews Darwin’s Screens opens with a quote from the man himself: “I was in those days a very great storyteller” (unpaginated). In the following 232 pages, Barbara Creed explores the influence of Charles Darwin’s work ...
The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema: The Films of Peter Weir by Richard Leonard Jay Daniel Thompson March 2011 Book Reviews Peter Weir is one of Australia’s best-known and most prolific directors. In The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema, Richard Leonard explores the theme of mysticism that runs through Weir’s work. During the following r...
