Film Studies
Anyone who remembers Julie Taymor’s 1999 version of Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s first published play, will not be expecting a reverential treatment of what is reputedly his last, but Taymor’s new film does move more or less inexorably to the play’s final wisdom: ‘The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance.’ The Tempest is a d ...
Australian Documentary: History, Practices, Genres by Trish FitzSimons, Pat Laughren, and Dugald Williamson
Kotcheff’s Wake
Jake Wilson
Wake in Fright
by Tina Kaufman
Currency Press, $16.95 pb, 72 pp, 9780868198644
Eight years after its launch, the Australian Screen Classics series of monographs represents a valuable, ongoing contribution to l ...
The Sound of Pictures: Listening to the Movies, From Hitchcock to High Fidelity by Andrew Ford
Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Film Adaptation and its Discontents: From Gone With The Wind to The Passion of The Christ by Thomas Leitch
Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev by Lorraine Mortimer
‘It wasn’t like that in the book’ is one of the commonest and most irritating responses to film versions of famous novels. Adaptation of literature to film seems to be a topic of enduring interest at every level, from foyer gossip to the most learned exegesis. Sometimes, it must be said, the former is the more entertaining, but this is no place for such frivolity.
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