Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Borrowing Styles
In a collection pursuing the relationship between the moment and the wider patterns of a film, how are we to account for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill movies (2003, 2004), which present a succession of sequences whose...
Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Here he is, then, the man in the white suit. It’s a very powerful visual image, but image of what? What do we make of the suit, of the man in it, and of what happens to them now?Charles Barr, Ealing Studios (California: University...
Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema
Continuum, 2008
Book
3
... For example, Frank, Gretchen's killer (James Duval), is shot in the eye by Donnie in the other potential world. Once time is reversed, we see him alive again on the night of Donnie's death with his newly designed bunny costume. He stares eerily,...
Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... the fragile volatility of life that can deal out extreme joy or despair.JamesWalters, Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema: Resonace Between Realms, Bristol: Intellect, 2008a, pp. 130–1.In this way, a film that might be taken...
James Mottram is a film journalist and critic who has written The Making of Memento and The Sundance Kids: How The Mavericks Took Back Hollywood. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Over Hollywood
Faber & Faber, 2010
Book
1
... to the bathroom? Will my father talk to me? – and put them in the context of an epic’Where does one start with a film as vast as Magnolia? Let’s try the final shot, of the coke-addled Claudia (Melora Walters) breaking into a smile, after a protracted...
Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...What is fantasy film? This study has sought to provide at least some answers to that question by tracing a series of central themes and issues through the course of its chapters. The breadth of topics covered in this investigation...
Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... a coherent whole.For a fuller consideration of the potentials and possibilities contained within particular fictional worlds see JamesWalters ‘Making Light of the Dark: Understanding the World of His Girl Friday’, Journal of Film and Video,...
Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... James’ major work of ghost fiction The Turn of the Screw was published in 1898, for example, and Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a milestone of the ghost story genre, was over fifty years old by the time cinema had arrived. A film like Mary Jane’s...
Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... released a year later than Cabin in the Sky, Fritz Lang’s The Woman in the Window (1944).For a detailed consideration of these two films in the context of the imagined worlds they construct, see JamesWalters, Alternative Worlds in Hollywood...
Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... (Scottie, played by James Stewart) who effectively attempts to reshape reality to fit his fantasy of a woman, Madeline (Kim Novak), who never was. As Cavell contends, ‘no other movie I know so purely conveys the sealing of a mind within...
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