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The Alchemical Screen: Enchantment and the Cinema
Read more: The Alchemical Screen: Enchantment and the CinemaDid human desire for magic escape the scorn of rational thought via the vehicle of 20th century cinema? Through fascination with haunted universes, I explore narrative immersion, celluloid wizardry, the abandonment of the palpable for the ecstasy of the enchanted. Symposium paper. Goldsmiths, University of London.
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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 in portals, where darkness and light meet, the heroines gazing back at us, in defiance, transforming into a new fluid form of femme fatale as action figure.
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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 MediumOn 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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