Tag: Michael Winterbottom
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The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love
The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love Bruce Bennett, Lancaster University UK. 15/3/14 (This paper was delivered at Screening Style: Costume, Cinema and Performance, a symposium on costume design I organised with Dr Catherine Spooner (Dept. of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster). Details about the event can…
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Masculine Intimacies: Michael Winterbottom’s ‘The Trip’
(An extract from my book, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror. London and New York: Wallflower Press pp.56-62, in which I discuss the 2010 comedy TV series, The Trip. The sequel, The Trip to Italy is currently being screened on BBC2). Masculine intimacies Romantic and intimate relationships in Winterbottom’s films are haunted by loss, failure, rejection and…
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The cinema of Michael Winterbottom: borders, intimacy, terror
I’m very excited that my new book, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror, is being published by Wallflower Press / Columbia University Press on 1st January, but have just found that the Kindle edition of the book has gone on sale on amazon today: http://goo.gl/Yy6TKJ
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Documenting the War on Terror
This is a short piece I wrote for the online journal e-International Relations on the turn towards documentary and docudrama in depictions of the War on Terror on film and TV: http://www.e-ir.info/2013/10/16/documenting-the-war-on-terror/
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Cinema, time and children
Cinema, time and children: This short piece on the importance of the historical significance of the child in cinema and in discourses around media effects, and also the ways that cinema can document and represent time is posted on the Lancaster University blog page here.
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