Paratexts and the Commercial Promotion of Film Authorship: James Wan and Saw Tyson Wils December 2013 Contemporary Australian Filmmakers Introduction This article discusses one way Malaysian-Australian James Wan (b. 1977-) (1) can be considered or constructed as an author. Wan is best known for the film Saw (2004), which he co-wrote with Leigh ...
Dario Argento: Giallo and Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) Tyson Wils July 2013 Uncategorized Argento’s World of Giallo Dario Argento (b. 1940-) has been making gialli for a long time. His first three features – L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, 1970), Il gatto a no...
The Wild Blue Yonder Tyson Wils May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Werner Herzog’s The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) defies easy categorisation. It can be described simply as an experimental film or, more specifically, an experimental found footage film. It can also be called a mult...
Umwelt and the Paradoxes of Landscape in Lupu Pick’s Sylvester and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema Tyson Wils March 2013 Feature Articles Introduction Writing in 1996, Matthew Gandy pointed out that landscape was an underrepresented area in cinema studies. (1) By 2012, it can be said that this situation has altered somewhat. For example, since...