deWaard, Andrew. “The Hood is Where the Heart is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film.” Habitus of the Hood. Eds. Chris Richardson and Hans A. Skott-Myhre. Chicago, IL: Intellect Ltd., 2012. Intellect | Worldcat | Amazon Abstract: Rarely does such a consistent and self-contained collection of representational material offer itself unto analysis like the short-lived hood film cycle of the early [...]
I recently began my PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Cinema and Media Studies program. In case I didn’t know I was in the right place: Simpsons creator Matt Groening makes transformational gift to TFT
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. Download the full text pdf | WorldCat | University Press of Kentucky | Amazon Abstract: Nearly all of Steven Soderbergh’s work can be seen to exhibit a large degree of intertextual [...]
The latest issue of UBC’s film journal, Cinephile, is out now: Anime is a visual enigma. Its otherworldly allure and burgeoning popularity across the globe highlights its unique ability to be more than just another type of animation. Originally a novelty export from post-war Japan, anime has now become a subtle yet important part of Western [...]
The latest issue of UBC’s film journal, Cinephile, is out now: Horror cinema has always held a strange place in the mainstream. On one hand, it is reviled by the moral majority and seen as a tool for corrupting impressionable youth, and on the other, it is a source of ritual enjoyment bound up in nostalgic [...]
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 [...]
The latest issue of UBC’s film journal, Cinephile, is out now: Even with a relatively innocuous theme such as ‘Sound on Screen,’ by some sick serendipity Cinephile still ended up with bold art and essays about suicidal families, occult a/synchrony, and ominous sounds eliciting apocalyptic dread. Such is our habit: taking a relatively straightforward and inoffensive [...]
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 [...]