Laura Mulvey
1) Citizen Kane
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Citizen Kane's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What more can there be to say about a masterpiece so universally acknowledged? Laura Mulvey, in a fresh and original reading, illuminates the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles's political background and its historical context. In a lucid and perceptive critique...
Publisher
International Film Forum
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An English businessman and his wife take their first trip together since their honeymoon 8 years earlier when they travel to Naples to arrange the sale of an inherited property. The journey profoundly unsettles them in different ways and affects their relationship.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory." In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. Using clips from hundreds of movies we all know and love from Metropolis to Vertigo to Phantom Thread Menkes convincingly makes the argument that shot design is gendered. It illuminates the patriarchal narrative codes that hide within supposedly "classic" set-ups...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama. Stromboli, Europe '51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actor at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition.
Stromboli. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman...
