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Category: classical hollywood
Cronenberg II: Shivers – The Beginning
Shivers is one of Cronenberg’s first feature length horror films and from the start the director was dealing with very visceral and bloody body horror images as well as strong sexual violence
Cronenberg
David Cronenberg’s films often seem on the surface to be rather simplistic gore or horror films, for example The Fly in which Seth Brundle’s monstrous half-fly, half-human body
Holy Overused Puns Batman!
Batman’s third and fourth cinematic outings are frequently side-lined, and in the case of Batman and Robin is considered, by many poll found online, as the worst film ever made.
Quills and The Libertine
by Jessica Pyle Discussing how the films Quills and The Libertine challenge and alter the heritage film debate. A certain cycle of films made in Britain in the 1980s have been classified by critics as heritage films, films which use "an English, southern middle class past” and rich period detail and settings in order to allow middle … Continue reading Quills and The Libertine
Batman: Gothic in Gotham City
My writing on Batman returns, with my second part looking at the Tim Burton era of the Batman film adaptations.
Being and Seeing
Hannibal Lecter, as the major reoccurring character across both Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, links the two films and their two protagonists in a very specific way; he uses the very process of psychoanalysis to analyse them from within the films themselves as critics do so from outside.
Thoughts on Clothing and Costume
By Jessica Pyle An interesting article popped up on my Facebook today found here. While I found the article a little shallow or perhaps because of that fact it immediately started my brain whizzing off in a million directions in considering the choker or collar as an item of clothing and a fashion statement of which … Continue reading Thoughts on Clothing and Costume
Dial M for Marnie
Sex is clearly the overriding factor in the film, thematically and characteristically, the use of the dialogue, the setting and the techniques of Hitchcock are all very sensual and in some cases erotic.