An Alternative to Haptic Cinema: Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema, by Greg Hainge Troy Michael Bordun June 2018 Book Reviews In the first book-length study of French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, Greg Hainge meticulously outlines and details the director’s œuvre, in a study that is structured both chronologically and by media. Haing...
“Whose place is this?”: The Architecture of David Lynch, by Richard Martin Troy Michael Bordun September 2017 Book Reviews Richard Martin’s The Architecture of David Lynch arrived just ahead of the director’s return to television. The reviews of Season 3 of Twin Peaks (2017) make much of the characters, the slowly unfolding mysteri...
Lost Souls: The Soul of Film Theory by Sarah Cooper Troy Michael Bordun March 2016 Book Reviews In the first half of the twentieth century, film theorists developed competing concepts of soul in the cinema. According to Sarah Cooper, the concept of soul was employed to assess the psychological aspects of ...
Films for the Senses: Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality, by Tiago de Luca Troy Michael Bordun December 2014 Book Reviews In this work, Tiago de Luca aims to update the concept of cinematic realism by linking classical accounts of realism, as articulated by André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer (the subtitle of de Luca’s volume echoe...
