Post-Human Post-Cinema: The Opening Titles of Westworld Philip Brophy December 2018 Feature Articles Introduction HBO’s Westworld is new, modern, innovative, polyphonic, self-reflexive and existential. Yet it is simultaneously classical, postmodern, derivative, mono-dimensional, self-aggrandising and grandilo...
The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate: Political Mortality and Radical Dramaturgy Philip Brophy December 2012 Feature Articles A 17 year old Japanese student is in his prison cell, preparing to hang himself. It’s 1960. A high pitched whine signals the slow emergence of the shōmouth organ as it brings to life the hive-like trailing of t...
I Scream In Silence: Sex, Death and the Sound of Women Dying (An excerpt) Philip Brophy October 2002 Feature Articles Terror or joy: a critical exploration into sexploitation, gender and the 'scream' in cinema.
In memory: JACK NITZSCHE Philip Brophy September 2000 Feature Articles Philip Brophy pays tribute to the work and legacy of the extraordinary Jack Nitzsche.