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      Seven Thieves: Making the World Gasp

      Saige Walton
      May 2008
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      Richard Sowada
      January 2022
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      Pablo Gonçalo
      January 2022
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      Rob Nixon
      January 2022
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      Dechlan Cochran
      January 2022
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      Joy McEntee
      January 2022
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      Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata
      January 2022
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      Saige Walton
      March 2019
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      Andrew Northrop
      July 2021
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      Saige Walton
      October 2002
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      Saige Walton
      March 2002
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      Leonardo Goi
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      Steven Shaviro
      July 2021
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      Saige Walton
      February 2001
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      Danica van de Velde
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      Boyd van Hoeij
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      David Melville
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      Shari Kizirian
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      Andréas Giannopoulos
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      Ian Olney
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Author Saige Walton

Saige Walton

Saige Walton is a Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies and Media Arts Discipline Leader (Film and Television) at the University of South Australia. She is the author of Cinema’s Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement (Amsterdam University Press, 2016). Her current book project deals with the embodiment and ethics of a contemporary cinema of poetry.

Live Through This: The 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

Saige Walton
January 2021
Festival Reports
In a year marked by apocalyptic imagery and an eerie sense of the science-fictional, the Adelaide Film Festival’s decision to open its socially distanced festival with the world premiere of Seth Larney’s sci-fi...

#Youmustsee: The 2018 Adelaide International Film Festival

Saige Walton
December 2018
Festival Reports
The last Adelaide Film Festival under the stewardship of Artistic Director Amanda Duthie proved to be a decidedly populist affair— a programming bent that was anticipated by the Festival’s own mid-year invitati...
Adelaide Film Festival 2017

Between the Breaths: The 2017 Adelaide Film Festival

Saige Walton
December 2017
Festival Reports
Paying homage to the birth year of punk rock as well as the persistence of a rebellious sensibility in the contemporary, the Adelaide Film Festival styled itself as ‘punk’ this year. “Vive Le Punk!” was the fes...
Adelaide film festival review

Ghostly Wanderings Between Cinema and the Gallery: 2015 Adelaide Film Festival

Saige Walton
December 2015
Festival Reports
Sleepwalkers, sleepers, phantoms, psychics, spectres and memories of the dearly departed suffused the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) this year. While festival attendees flocked to pit their trivia knowledge again...

Gestures of Intimacy: Claire Denis’ I Can’t Sleep

Saige Walton
June 2012
CTEQ Annotations on Film
No doubt those who are familiar with Claire Denis’ work will be well aware of how her films are invested in and expressive of the material connections that unite and divide bodies in the world. Similarly, in he...
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Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression by Martine Beugnet

Saige Walton
April 2009
Book Reviews
Those familiar with French director Claire Denis will be aware of the exquisite sensuality of her cinema. Whether coming together with another body in the world through the shared space and flesh of desire, or ...
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“Cinema as I see-I hear-I feel”: The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film by Brigitte Peucker

Saige Walton
November 2007
Book Reviews
The shift towards more sensuous modes of scholarship has been producing exciting interdisciplinary work across the fields of cultural anthropology, film, art history, architecture, design and new media. At the ...
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Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures by Alexander Nemerov

Saige Walton
November 2006
Book Reviews
In Bedlam (Mark Robson, 1946), Val Lewton’s last production for RKO-Radio Pictures, there is a justly famous sequence in which a young boy – his body slathered in pure gold – must recite a speech for the aristo...
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Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood by Jim Kitses

Saige Walton
February 2006
Book Reviews
The original publication of Jim Kitses’ Horizons West in 1969 revealed the heavy impact of auteurism on the development of genre criticism. Thanks to the French New Wave, André Bazin and other writers affiliate...

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