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Joy (2015)

Directed by

David O. Russell

Written by

David O. Russell

Screenplay

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... Of A Car Joy jerks back as car takes off; her father and Peggy sit on either side of her. Suddenly she is in a beautiful church with light streaming in the windows and choir singing, as – Soap Opera Cathedral Joy walks with her family...

Langrishe, Go Down (1978)

Directed by

David Jones

Written by

Harold Pinter

Screenplay

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... Auxilius, coadjutor to St. Patrick. The Cill - or church - of the same. Thus you have: Cill Auxuli. Or Killashee. Imogen Fancy that. Otto I must get...

A postmodern family romance: Antichrist

David Denny

David Denny

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Lars von Trier’s Women

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

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... The cut is accompanied by a low-grade, dissonant, grinding sound that reminds one of David Lynch’s use of the same technique: a close-up of the teeming decay and death of nature that exist just beyond the postcard perception of a domesticated...

The Wild and the Cute

David Whitley

David Whitley

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Kidding Around : The Child in Film and Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

2

... for the ritual space of the funeral service, perhaps. The musical accompaniment of church organ music and the conventional linking of rain with tears complete this chain of associations. While, in one sense, this poetic use of natural imagery could...

Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the “Indiansploitation” Cycle

David Church

David Church is a film historian specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film exhibition and distribution. He is a Lecturer in Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University, USA, and is the author of Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (2015). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Grindhouse : Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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... in a nearby church where a Wounded Knee-style shootout ensues—ending once Jean convinces Billy to surrender and, by standing trial, bring attention to Red Power issues. As in The Born Losers, Billy fits the popular 1970s trope of the male...

Revisiting the Cruel Apparatus

David Church

David Church is a film historian specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film exhibition and distribution. He is a Lecturer in Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University, USA, and is the author of Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (2015). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Nazisploitation! : The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture

Continuum, 2012

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... with a self-serious tone, whose ability to deliver powerful levels of visceral affect helps form alternative aesthetic criteria that complicate appeals to bourgeois standards of artworthiness.David Church, ‘Of Manias, Shit, and Blood: The Reception...

Monster Factory: International Dynamics of the Australian Horror Movie Industry

Mark David Ryan

Mark David Ryan

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Merchants of Menace : The Business of Horror Cinema

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

2

... and the expansion of DVD markets (see Ryan, 2009). Additional factors included a growing demand among major international distributors for new horror product (Church, 2006). Since the 1970s, horror has occupied a marginal position within the Australian...

Django Blues: Whiteness and Hollywood’s Continued Failures

David J. Leonard

David J. Leonard

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Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained : The Continuation of Metacinema

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

2

... about the Holocaust; would purportedly satirical representations of Nazis get a green light from Hollywood and ample praise from mainstream media?See here David Denby, “Django Unchained: Put-On, Revenge, and the Aesthetics of Trash” (January...

The Lodger: A London symphony

David Schroeder

David Schroeder holds a PhD from Cambridge University, and is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Canada. His books include Haydn and the Enlightenment (Oxford UP, 1990), Mozart in Revolt (Yale UP, 1999), Cinema’s Illusions, Opera’s Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film (Continuum, 2002/Bloomsbury, 2016), and Our Schubert: His Enduring Legacy (Scarecrow, 2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Hitchcock’s Ear : Music and the Director’s Art

Continuum, 2012

Book chapter

1

... giving a church roof and steeple in the foreground, and a square in the town of Bremen in the background. The steeple dominates the center of the shot, and divides our view of the town non-symmetrically, with an open square (except for a small...

Opera Obsession

David Schroeder

David Schroeder holds a PhD from Cambridge University, and is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Canada. His books include Haydn and the Enlightenment (Oxford UP, 1990), Mozart in Revolt (Yale UP, 1999), Cinema’s Illusions, Opera’s Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film (Continuum, 2002/Bloomsbury, 2016), and Our Schubert: His Enduring Legacy (Scarecrow, 2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Cinema’s Illusions, Opera’s Allure : The Operatic Impulse in Film

Bloomsbury Academic, 2002

Book chapter

2

... and desperation, we see him in the belfry of the church frantically ringing the bells; he proclaims that the church will remain closed until he gets his opera. Now the religion of opera directly confronts the religion of God. For him an opera...