March 2010
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Accidental Purity and Deliberate Devils- Mise en...
Park Chan-wook’s 2005 film, Lady Vengeance asks its audience to reconsider the nature of vengeance and mercy, punishment and healing. The film contains all the elements of the Shakeperean revenge drama – murder, ghosts, elaborate plots, justice, and bitter sweet conclusions. Cocooned in a cheeky and chic style, the narrative of the film ponders the “logic of revenge.” (Choe) At the center of a...
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Thoughts on Nowell-Smith and Enjoying the...
Have you ever found that the very things you enjoy are the ones that are hardest to grasp? You don’t necessarily like it because it’s hard, but the challenge of it can be wearing at times.
That’s my relationship with psychoanalysis and film.
I wrote a response to the Geoffrey Nowell-Smith essay, which in turn is responding to a Christian Metz article. Looking at it now, it...
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La Chinoise
I’m a pretty big fan of Nouveau Vague cinema. Give me a Godard film any day and I’ll be pleased. I decided that I wanted to go though his catalog of films from the 60’s, arguably the period for which he’s best known, and get better aquainted.
La Chinoise revolves around five students, hardline socialists and Maoists, who share an apartment. The place is bright; doors...
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Thoughts on Higson's "The Concept of National...
In his article, The Concept of National Cinema, Andrew Higson seeks to create a more concise definition, or perhaps better parameters, for what makes national cinema, national cinema. He first takes the time to divvy up the ways in which one could or has discussed national cinema - via economics, the text of the films themselves, who is “consuming” the films, and using criticism of a countries’...
“Culture, art, science and cinema always respond to conflicting class interests.”
– Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gettino - Towards A Third Cinema
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Let's Get the Facts Straight
My name is Abby and I am a 20 year old student.
That was easy.
The hard thing for me is that I’m terrible about
a) keeping my blogs up to date
b) providing interesting and relevant information
However, if there is one this I do love, than it is lists. For real, I’ve go sticky notes everywhere and they are about to start a revolution on my desk and oust all other relevant objects...
