This anthology collects the essays of distinguished film critic Adrian Martin in one volume, offering in-depth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture.

Auteur

Adrian Martin is an associate professor at Monash University in Australia.

Contenu

PART ILETTERS OF INTRODUCTION1. Retying the Threads 2. The Path and the Passeur 3. That Summer Feeling PART IISCENOGRAPHIES4. Scenes 5. Wishful Thinking 6. Entities and Energies 7. Entranced PART IIIA CINEPHILE IN AUSTRALIA8. No Flowers for the Cinephile: The Fates of Cultural Populism PART IVTHE LYRICAL IMPULSE9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space 10. The Trouble with Fiction 11. Ball of Fire: The Mysteries 12. The Ever-Tested Limit: Cinematic Apparitions 13. Delirious Enchantment PART VGENRE GAMES14. Mr Big: Gangsters and Power 15. Unlawful Entries: Anatomy of a Film Cycle 16. Lady, Beware: Paths of the Female Gothic 17. Live to Tell: Teen Movies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 18. In the Mood for (Something Like) Love 19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort: Sadism and Sublimation in Contemporary Cinema PART VIINTERVENTIONS20. Making a Bad Script Worse: The Curse of the Scriptwriting Manual 21. The Offended Critic: Film Reviewing and Social Commentary 22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Precarious, Unstable Reality PART VIIENVOI 23. No Direction Home: Creative Criticism 24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses 25. My Back Pages 26. The File We Accompany, with Cristina 0/00lvarez López Notes Sources of Texts Index