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Nineteen scholars, writers, and friends remember Annette Michelson (1922–2018), cofounder of October. Written tributes by Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Enrico Camporesi, Edward Dimendberg, Jean-Michel Frodon, Amos Gitai, Vivian Gornick, Gertrud Koch, Antonia Lant, Stuart Liebman, Anne McCarthy, Tony Pipolo, Robert Polidori, Yvonne Rainer, Ethan T...
Es muss meine frühe Liebe zu Planetarien gewesen sein, die mir den Wunsch eingab, Astronom zu werden.1 Man stelle sich also meine Überraschung, Empörung und den Unmut vor, den ich empfand, als ich entdeckte, dass Astronomie nicht nur darin bestand, im Dunkeln zu sitzen und fasziniert nach oben in einen Abgrund zu starren. Man musste mathematische O...
In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful, rebellious energy characterized by hyperbolic em...
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The book I'm currently completing, The Poetics of
Slumberland, celebrates the plasmatic possibility that
Sergei Eisenstein identified, in an uncompleted study, as endemic
to the early cartoons of Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse and his barnyard
brethren represented a freedom from "once and...
Session: Phenomenology and FilmSession: “Narration”Sessions: Parody and BakhtinSession: EARLY CINEMASession: Approaches to InterpretationSession: Trends and Concepts in Chinese CinemaSession: Narrative in Japanese CinemaClassical German Film TheorySession: Hitchcock and AuthorshipSession: JERRY LEWISSession: Women and the Avant gardeSessions: Telev...
The films of Howard Hawks have generated extraordinary writing over the years: Manny Farber, Robin Wood, Gerald Mast, Peter Wollen, Molly Haskell, Laura Mulvey, David Thomson, and various Cahiers du Cinéma writers have all contributed to this spectacular body of critical writing. What is it about Hawks that inspires such excellence? Perhaps the ans...
What can happen in a day in New York City? Plenty. A day in the life of the city is a trope familiar in both the journalism of the nineteenth century and the city symphony films of the 1920s. The city is anthropomorphized, given a life, and it is at the same time delimited and made manageable. Boundaries are drawn, rhythms are established, and the...
In the wake of Muybridge's and Marey's experiments in recording movement, comics quickly began to emphasize the depiction of continuous movement. Chronophotography mapped the kinetic body onto the regulated spaces of industrial culture: it was a means of revealing the body and a tool for its containment and control. Comics by Wilhelm Busch, Steinle...
Modernism/modernity 11.1 (2004) 85-87
Garbage appears in science fiction cinema with notable frequency, whether in the retrofitted future Los Angeles of Blade Runner (1982) or the post-Holocaust bricolage of the Mad Max films or The Bed Sitting Room (1969). Whole cities can appear in ruins in the "future archaic" subgenre; think Logan's Run (1976),...
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of Scott Bukatman Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993) with postscript written for this issue of Continuum. Reprinted with permission of Duke University Press. The Science Fiction of the Spectacle.
