Bruce Bennett

Tag: Andre Bazin

  • Repetition and difference: Three faces of Chaplin

    Repetition and difference: Three faces of Chaplin

    Earlier this year I was asked to suggest three feature films by Charlie Chaplin for screening at the Dukes cinema in Lancaster to accompany the release of a new documentary about the film-maker, The Real Charlie Chaplin (Middleton, Spinney, 2021), and to write a blog post for their website. This is a slightly expanded version of that…

  • The normativity of 3D: cinematic journeys, unchained cameras and imperial visuality

    The normativity of 3D: cinematic journeys, unchained cameras and imperial visuality

    This is a new article I’ve just had published in the free online journal, JumpCut: A Review of Contemporary Media. It’s an analysis of the emergent formal and ideological conventions of the current wave of digital 3D cinema, using Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)  and the cave-diving thriller Sanctum (Grierson, 2010) as the key case studies.