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Film Criticism
Academic film journal publishes articles on different disciplines, cultures and critical perspectives.
Articles from Vol. 32, No. 2, Winter
Cannes Film Festival, 2007
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Cannes had its share of moody films this year: movies which seemed to exist only to draw spectators into a universe of surreal emotion. The best among these mood pieces was Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park. Acclaimed cinematographer Chris Doyle's camera...
Murder and Merrymaking: The "Seen" of the Crime in Renoir's 1930s Cinema
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In French cinema of the 1930s, murder of both men and women recurs with striking frequency and provides the shattering climax in a number of important films. Jean Renoir's 1931 La Chienne inaugurates a proto-noir atmosphere and plot structure in an...
Return to Yuma
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Delmer Daves's 3.10 to Yuma (1957) is a psychological fable concerning the male libido and its discontents. The film focuses on the inner lives of its two leading men, illuminating their interiority primarily through its two substantial female characters....
The 57th Berlin Film Festival
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The Berlin Film Festival, held annually in February, has long laid claim to its position as second only to Cannes among the most important showcases for international features. Although the weather in the German capital is usually dreary this time...
X-Ray Visions: Radiography, Chiaroscuro, and the Fantasy of Unsuspicion in Film Noir
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Introduction Immediately recognizable even to the film noir neophyte is the lighting technique known as chiaroscuro, the angular alternation of dark shadows and stark fields of light across various on-screen surfaces in films such as Double Indemnity...
