deWaard, Andrew. “Intertextuality, Broken Mirrors, and The Good German.” The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh. Eds. Steven M. Sanders and R. Barton Palmer. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 107-119. full text pdf | world cat | publisher’s website | amazon Abstract: Nearly all of Steven Soderbergh’s work can be seen to exhibit a large degree of intertextual and intermedial [...]
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French Minority Cinema
As assistant editor at Rodopi on the Contemporary Cinema series, I proof-read, copy-edit, and format, then do layout for print and design the cover. The second book I worked on, after Theorizing Bruce Lee, is Cristina Johnston’s French Minority Cinema, a probing analysis of the intersection of ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary French cinema. More info at Rodopi | Amazon | Worldcat Through the prisms of [...]
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Theorizing Bruce Lee:
Film–Fantasy–Fighting–Philosophy
As assistant editor at Rodopi on the Contemporary Cinema series, I play a considerable role in bringing books to press: proof-reading, copy-editing, formatting, print layout, and cover design. But all the hard work (and delays) are worth it to see the final product in print. The first release which I have worked upon has just [...]
Cinephile Vol. 5, No. 2: The Scene
The latest issue of our film journal, Cinephile, is out now — the theme is ‘The Scene’. There are certain scenes which have the power to enthral, provoke, and delight—our cover captures one such titillating tableau. But what gives such a scene the ability to stand apart, to take on a life of its own? [...]
The Museum: Textworks, Cultural Economy, and Polytextual Dispersion
deWaard, Andrew. The Museum: Textworks, Cultural Economy, and Polytextual Dispersion. MA Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. cIRcle: UBC’s Information Repository. [ubc library page] [full text pdf] Abstract: The Museum is a theoretical model that aims to render a media-saturated world in which our media have become saturated with media. Corporate conglomeration of the cultural [...]
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Cinephile Vol. 5, No 1:
Far From Hollywood, Alternative World Cinema
Cinephile has released its latest issue: ‘Far From Hollywood’ – Alternative World Cinema: …in this, our 5th anniversary issue, we set out to navigate the murky and uncharted depths of ‘alternative cinema’. But carving out an epistemology of this amorphous cinema is no small endeavour-and what do we mean by ‘alternative cinema’ anyway? On the [...]
Joints and Jams: Spike Lee as Sellebrity Auteur
deWaard, Andrew. “Joints and Jams: Spike Lee as Sellebrity Auteur.” Fight the Power!: The Spike Lee Reader. Eds. Janice D. Hamlet and Robin R. Means Coleman. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. [full text pdf] [world cat] [publisher's website] [amazon] Abstract: The sellebrity auteur injects the consideration of commerce and celebrity into conventional theories of film [...]
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Tom LeClair’s Passing Trilogy: Recovering Adventure in the Age of Post-Genre
Steffen Hantke has quoted me in his essay entitled Tom LeClair’s Passing Trilogy: Recovering Adventure in the Age of Post-Genre, for Electronic Book Review. With the adventure genre having largely given way to the thriller in popular culture, and the distinct lack of adventure narratives in contemporary literature, Hantke looks at how LeClair’s brazen and [...]