Film Studies
La Trobe University Essay | 'Infidelity: "The Monkey’s Mask" in Poetry and Film' by David McCooey
by David McCooey •
Movies are often criticised for their lack of fidelity, for not keeping faith with their sources, especially novels, their audience, or their glorious antecedents. Infidelity is also a key plot device, especially of genre films: melodrama, comedy, crime, even the western. We keep going back to the movies partly because they don’t give us what we want. The New York poet Frank O’Hara suggests this in ‘An Image of Leda’, his breathless adaptation of the myth of Leda and the Swan as an allegory for watching films:
... (read more)Ubu Films: Sydney underground movies 1965-1970 by Peter Mudie
by Juno Gemes •
Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone, David Veloz, Richard Rutowski (screenplay); story by Quentin Tarantino
by Barbara Creed •
01 October 1994
The Story of Gallipoli by Bill Gammage, based on the screenplay by David Williamson
by Margaret Smith •