Category: Essays and Articles
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by Emma Arneil Being a teenager is hellish. Your body is changing at a terrifying rate. Your friendships, once solid, can now feel fraught with tension, and your parents seem to clamp down harder on you just as you’re trying to pull away. The desire for freedom, while still being stuck under someone else’s roof and rules.…
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by Billy Butler “The cowboy is the archetypal American hero: in real life he conquered the West; in his celluloid form he conquered the world.” (Sandford, 1980, P.103) The American western genre perhaps encapsulates all that Hollywood has become synonymous for; epic stories where men are ultra-masculine and women ultra-feminine and where good and evil…
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by Megan Hilborne “Exposure. That’s the only thing that works. Everything else is just talk. You have to have to courage to stay in the situation that frightens. And then you’ll learn that fear isn’t dangerous.”(von Trier, Antichrist, 2009) European extreme cinema has been described as the “cinéma du corps” (Palmer, 2011, p. 57) translating…
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by Megan Hilborne “You must close your eyes otherwise you won’t see anything.” The term ‘surrealist’ first appeared in 1917 with the burlesque play, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, and was described as a “surrealist drama” (Waldberg, 1965, p.11). Surrealism was born in Paris with young poets, André Breton being the most known, directing the review…
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by Billy Butler (Sister Jeanne – played by Vanessa Redgrave – at the feet of Oliver Reed’s Urbain Grandier in a religious vision reminiscent of Mary Magdalene at Jesus’ feet. The Devils, 1971, Dir. Ken Russell) Film is a powerful medium. It has the ability to affect our lives – the power to inspire us,…
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By Ros Tibbs One thing I have noticed after being a film lover since childhood is that American cinema, which unarguably controls Western ideals of moviemaking, is conventionally defined by everything and anything grand, expensive and intense. Features from the medium’s biggest studio powerhouses are designed to captivate audiences and their pockets by exploding, quite…
