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 [...]