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Author M. C. Zenner

M. C. Zenner

M. C. Zenner is an occasional writer, a voracious reader, and a once-avid viewer who is proud to have no academic qualifications whatever.

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What are They Writing About?

M. C. Zenner
July 2000
Film Criticism
A critique of academic writing.
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Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead

M. C. Zenner
June 2000
Current Releases
Hell's Kitchen in New York revisited by Marty - an expressionistic extravaganza. But maybe too much so?
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Four Nights of a Dreamer (quatre nuits d’un rêveur [1971]): A Post-Romantic’s View of a Robert Bresson Film

M. C. Zenner
April 2000
Robert Bresson
An analysis of this overlooked Bresson film from the viewpoint of romanticism.
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How Art Turned into Shmart: Utility in L’Argent

M. C. Zenner
April 2000
Robert Bresson
Fascinating analysis of the bourgeoisie and their particular ways.
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The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin

M. C. Zenner
April 2000
Book Reviews
Baldwin's book was published in the '70s, but it is probably one of the best film books around.
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What Babies Us Now?

M. C. Zenner
March 2000
Censorship and Romance
A dissection of documents from the OFLC re: Romance and Salò, and also a cautionary note thrown to this country's filmmakers.
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Bresson: Destinies Making Themselves in a Work of Hands – Third Part

M. C. Zenner
February 2000
Feature Articles
Third and final instalment in a major study of the unique style and vision of French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
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Bresson: Destinies Making Themselves in a Work of Hands – Second Part

M. C. Zenner
January 2000
Robert Bresson - A Tribute
The Second Part of M. C. Zenner's major analysis of the work of Bresson.
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Bresson: Destinies Making Themselves in a Work of Hands – First Part

M. C. Zenner
December 1999
French Cinema
Part One of a major analysis of the work of perhaps cinema's most singular film director, Robert Bresson. In a dense, thorough and sharp way, the author challenges conventional readings of this film-maker's work.

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