Kategori: In English
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Bordwell on Bordwell: Part III – Writing On Film Style
FEATURE. In Part III of our interview series we discuss how David Bordwell himself writes about film style and how he encourages others to do so. Bordwell also fleshes out how to link stylistic inquiry to the construction of meaning and he considers interesting consequences of the DVD-format, Turner Classic Movies and the Internet on film scholarship.
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Bordwell on Bordwell: Part II – Functions of Film Style
FEATURE. The second part of Jakob Isak Nielsen’s interview with David Bordwell concerns four functions of film style suggested in Bordwell’s forthcoming book Figures Traced in Light. The new quartet is a rewarding elaboration of Bordwell’s concept of style.
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Bordwell on Bordwell: Part I – Hitchcock, Hartley and the Poetics of Cinema
FEATURE. This is the first installment of an interview that Jakob Isak Nielsen did with David Bordwell in May 2004 as Bordwell was about to retire from Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison after +30 years of faithful service. In Part I, Nielsen and Bordwell not only look back at early writings but also discuss current perspectives and future plans.
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Melodrama, Tears, and Life of Oharu
FEATURE. Why do we find melodramas moving? How do melodramas make us cry? Casting a close look at Kenji Mizoguchi’s Life of Oharu (1952) and a glance at other classic melodramas, Jonathan Frome discusses the validity of the theory of agnition as it is presented in Steve Neale’s well-known article “Melodrama and Tears”.
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Abbas Kiarostami: The Earth Trembles
FEATURE. Adrian Martin celebrates the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami and his style and vision in important films like Taste of Cherry and Ten. Minimalism, simplicity and modesty are often associated with Kiarostami but Martin emphasizes a cinematic monumentality that he also finds in his work.
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Fucking monsters: Post-apocalyptic desire in Tim Roth’s The War Zone
FEATURE. Dr. Charles Jason Lee discusses The War Zone (1999) as a post-apocalyptic film. He focuses on the sexual tensions in a dark wasteland where even the outer world looks like a prison with no signs of life.
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Same Tune Again!
FEATURE. V.F. Perkins is one of the founding fathers of film criticism. His contributions to various periodicals, his seminal book Film as Film and his more recent book on The Magnificent Ambersons have had a strong influence on both critics and scholars writing for 16:9. We are proud to present his excellent article on Letter from an Unknown Woman.
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Medium Shot Gestures: Vincente Minnelli and Some Came Running
FEATURE. Joe McElhaney discusses long take staging in Vincente Minnelli’s Some Came Running. He focuses on acting and gesture performed by the two stars of the film, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.