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      Tony McKibbin
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Author Tony McKibbin

Tony McKibbin

Tony McKibbin teaches Short Courses at The University of Edinburgh and writes for various magazine and journals. His website can be found at tonymckibbin.com, and some of the material from the website is in book form: On and About Film and Other Essays; Craig Dunain and Other Stories.

The Depths of Empiricism: Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests, by Kristoffer Hegnsvad

Tony McKibbin
January 2022
Book Reviews
A beautifully presented account of Herzog’s work, Kristoffer Hegnsvad’s book finds its purpose in both its design and in its sense of affiliation. Hegnsvad is a documentary filmmaker as well as a writer, and so...

The Perfect Conditional: Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard

Tony McKibbin
October 2020
Book Reviews
Philippe Garrel is now in his seventies and has behind him a body of work that looked initially like it might have become no more (and no less) than an avant-garde skeleton. Those early films which included Cic...

Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan

Tony McKibbin
July 2020
Book Reviews
There are very good books and articles on actors, about stardom, about performance, on acting and about acting. David Thomson and Pauline Kael have often been astute concerning the thin line between the person ...

The Past Is Not Even Past: Afterimages, by Laura Mulvey

Tony McKibbin
April 2020
Book Reviews
It could almost be a parlour game to try to talk about Laura Mulvey without mentioning her famous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, with its more than fifteen thousand citations and the phrase the m...
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)

Styles of Substance: The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema, by Robert P. Kolker

Tony McKibbin
June 2018
Book Reviews
Robert Philip Kolker has given us two very useful film books: The Altering Eye and A Cinema of Loneliness are excellent accounts of post-war European cinema (which take in other parts of the world too), and 197...

Speaking of the Dead

Tony McKibbin
June 2018
Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia
Cinema certainly has many films that are happy to fall under the nostalgic, and even has plenty of devices to convey it. The use of songs from the period, a fond voice-over recollecting in tranquillity, the tri...
cinema hypothesis

The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond, by Alain Bergala

Tony McKibbin
March 2018
Book Reviews
If Bazin's classic essay collection was titled What is Cinema?, along comes contemporary French critic Alain Bergala asking how the subject should be taught. The answer would rest partly in one of the many conc...
Abbas Kiarostami

Sceptical Oscillations: Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy, by Matthew Abbott

Tony McKibbin
September 2017
Book Reviews
Abbas Kiarostami would seem to make films that suggest philosophical enquiry. But, in his fine book, Matthew Abbott makes clear that the philosophical content of the director's work does not mean this is where ...
Night and Fog

Archiving the Unforgettable: “Night and Fog”: A Film in History, by Sylvie Lindeperg

Tony McKibbin
December 2015
Book Reviews
There have been numerous books about the making of a film: from Final Cut, a book detailing the production history of Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980), to Picture, about the making of The Red Badge of Coura...
André Bazin’s New Media book review

Size Matters: The Aesthetics of the Small Screen: André Bazin’s New Media by Dudley Andrew (ed.)

Tony McKibbin
June 2015
Book Reviews
A glance at the title of André Bazin’s New Media might make us think that the writer has been resurrected, but the truth is that, since his death in 1958, this most important of French critics and theorists h...

Confronting the Future: Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, by Miriam Bratu Hansen

Tony McKibbin
December 2014
Book Reviews
Halfway through Cinema and Experience, Miriam Bratu Hansen quotes László Moholy-Nagy’s comment: “It is not the person ignorant of writing but the one ignorant of photography who will be the illiterate of the fu...

Alain Robbe-Grillet:Teasing the Real

Tony McKibbin
October 2014
Feature Articles
In the DVD extras to the new BFI Alain Robbe-Grillet box set, the interviewer Frédéric Taddeï asks the novelist and filmmaker what it felt like filming his fantasies as Robbe-Grillet shows in Trans-Europ-Expres...

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