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Black Humour in Serbian Films of the Early Eighties
Read more: Black Humour in Serbian Films of the Early EightiesExamining the dark heart of laughter the symbiotic relationship of film and its audience, wiring us to think and talk in certain ways, its cultural impact, its myriad semiotic and cinematic legacies – this was my MA dissertation (Birkbeck, 2005), a bungy jump into Serbian (and YU) 80s cinema, four films, two filmmakers, Šijan and…
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From Door Frame to Freeze Frame: Femmes Ante Portas
Read more: From Door Frame to Freeze Frame: Femmes Ante PortasEncountering feminine mysteries on celluloid, a post-Jungian analysis of the veneration of the Hollywood film icon, tracing the blazing trail of cinema femme fatales, their imagery framed within portals, places where darkness and light meet, the heroines gazing back at us, in defiance, transforming into a new fluid form of the femme fatale as action…
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Fallen Women of Hollywood Melodrama: 1930s-1950s
Read more: Fallen Women of Hollywood Melodrama: 1930s-1950sExploring the myth of the fallen woman in classic Hollywood melodrama, its historical, religious and literary antecedents, archetypal realms of the dark, wild feminine projected onto the screen, her impact on the spectator. A dispossessed femininity, fragmented and demonised, yet powerfully vibrant and creative.
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Archetypal Enchantment And The Twin Of David Lynch
Read more: Archetypal Enchantment And The Twin Of David LynchSomething in the nature of a recording defies rational explanation. A replica of life, its twin and its double, also its deathly echo, preserving life by embalming it for eternity, or at least until the shelf life of the medium itself expires. Images have the numinosity to affect us deeply – a capacity to heal…
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Film, the Alchemical Medium
Read more: Film, the Alchemical MediumMy 2009 PhD proposal, aimed at studying how we are enchanted by film, juxtaposing early film theory, post-Jungian analysis, anthropology of ritual, and the moving image as transformative tool in art therapy, coining the term archetypal enchantment. It serves as basis to my subsequent theoretical approach to cinema.
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