Adrian Martin

Adrian Martin
Adrian Martin is Professor of Film Studies at Goethe University (Frankfurt), and Monash University (Melbourne). He is published internationally and has been translated into over twenty languages, with regular columns in De Filmkrant (Holland) and Caiman (Spain). He is the author of six books (Phantasms, Once Upon a Time in America, Raúl Ruiz: Magnificent Obsessions, The Mad Max Movies,Last Day Every Day, What is Modern Cinema?) And is Co-Editor of the on-line film journals LOLA (www.lolajournal.com) and Screening the Past, as well as the books Movie Mutations andRaúl Ruiz: Images of Passage. His forthcoming book (Palgrave, late 2014) is Mise en scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art.

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Adrian Martin
  • Inside, Around and About Notorious

    Inside, Around and About Notorious

    Adrian Martin
    Adrian Martin

    IN ENGLISH. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Notorious (1946), starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains, demands that we explore free-floating responses to its tormented triangle of characters. In terms of genre, is it suspense thriller or romantic melodrama? Go inside, around and about the film with Adrian Martin and explore its style, meaning and form.

  • What is Modern Cinema?

    What is Modern Cinema?

    Adrian Martin
    Adrian Martin

    FEATURE. In his book ¿Que es el cine moderno? (Uqbar 2008) Adrian Martin sets out to answer a question that is vast in scope: What is modern cinema? Here – for the first time in English – Martin gives us his remarkably bold ‘answer’.

  • Neurosis Hotel

    Neurosis Hotel

    Adrian Martin
    Adrian Martin

    FEATURE. The cinema of Abel Ferrara is wild and unruly yet remarkably sharp and intelligent. It is a cinema that seeks the truth of the moment and a cinema whose moments reverberate into the realms of philosophy, allegory and religion. Adrian Martin takes us on a tour de force through Abel Ferrara’s career and describes the merits of his cinema with illuminating precision.

  • A Larry Clark Portrait

    A Larry Clark Portrait

    Adrian Martin
    Adrian Martin

    FEATURE. Adrian Martin explicates the work of a termite artist whose portraiture of characters ‘under the influence’ evokes a mood that is both discomforting and kinky, yet never dispassionate.

  • Abbas Kiarostami: The Earth Trembles

    Abbas Kiarostami: The Earth Trembles

    Adrian Martin
    Adrian Martin

    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.