Ringu/The Ring: Tracing the Analog Spirit in a Digital Era – Michael Fisch

Jul 18, 2010 | Film, Older Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 17

Media matters, Friedrich Kittler reminds us. Without media the world is senseless, or rather we are senseless before it. More importantly, media matter in different ways such that the world mediated via pen and paper is essentially different from a world mediated via...

Keaton and the Lion: A Critical Re-evaluation of The Cameraman, Free and Easy and Speak Easily – Anna Gardner

Jul 18, 2010 | Film, Sound, Volume 17

Much of the academic writing on the films of Buster Keaton concentrates on the silent period from 1917, when Keaton began his career in films, to 1928 when his independent production company (Buster Keaton Productions) was wound up and Keaton signed a contract with...

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: The Natural Sublime in the work of Terrence Malick – Dimitrios Latsis

Jul 18, 2010 | Uncategorized, Volume 17

“And now the rosy-finger’d morn appears, Shows every mournful face with tears o’erspread, And glares on the pale visage of the dead.”~ Iliad XIV 110 (Trans. Alexander Pope) "Darkness and light, strife and love are they the workings of one mind? The...