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George Kouvaros
Is a patrimony something we inherit or something we create? Does it mark the continuation of the past or its disappearance?
Combining elements of criticism, cultural history and memoir, Patrimonies…
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A study on Paul Schrader’s films. It examines the different styles of his work and the influences on which it draws. It draws on an interview conducted with Schrader and…
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George Kouvaros surveys Frank’s films and videos and places them in the larger context of experimentation in American art and literature since World War II. By examining Frank’s films and…
A major reassessment of the filmmaker as a formal experimenter, Where Does It Happen? gives Cassavetes his due as a filmmaker whose critical place in the modern cinema is only…
Just as the industrial context of film production evolved dramatically in the decades after the war, Kouvaros asserts, so too did the iconography associated with the figure of the actor…
How should the people that initiated a journey be remembered? What obligations arise as a result of their passing away? What role do films and photographs play in the process…
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Lesley Stern
Offers a range for theoretical approaches for illuminating the affective force of cinema. Concentrating on the work of important figures such as Welles, Cassavetes, Scorsese, Chaplin, Keaton and Streisand, these…
