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? [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Cinephile Vol. 4, No. 1: Post-Genre
Cinephile is the scholarly film journal published in print and online by the graduate students in Film Studies at the University of British Columbia. I was the Editor-in-Chief this year, and am immensely proud of the issue our team put together. The theme we chose was ‘Post-Genre‘: Genre may be an easy or convenient starting [...]