Posts Categorised: Film
NEW BOOK: ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze
ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, a collection of essays edited by Kim Wilkins and myself, is now out with Edinburgh University Press. Two of the chapters are written by me: “Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation” and “Spike Jonze’s Screenwriting: The Screenplay.” https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-spike-jonze.html
NEW ARTICLE: “The emotional politics of limerence in romantic comedy films”
My latest article, published in the #Emotions special issue of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, looks at political romcom films. You can read it here: necsus-ejms.org/the-emotional-politics-of-limerence-in-romantic-comedy-films
NEW ARTICLES: On Domestic Ensemble Films
Two new articles published recently, for those interested in readings of domestic ensemble films: For Style journal, I wrote a piece on emotional contagion in the film Parenthood (Ron Howard, 1989): https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.52.3.0302 For Sydney Studies in English, abject humanism in adaptations of Tom Perrotta novels, Election (Alexander Payne, 1999) and Little Children (Todd Field, 2006): https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/view/12638
NEW ARTICLE: “Affecting Profundity: Cognitive and Moral Dissonance in Lynch, Loach, Linklater, and Sayles”
My latest article, “Affecting Profundity: Cognitive and Moral Dissonance in Lynch, Loach, Linklater, and Sayles” is published in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind. You can find it here: http://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/projections/11/1/proj110104.xml
NEW ARTICLE: “Humanist Ethics in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys”
My latest article on “Humanist Ethics in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys” has just been published in the Film International journal: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=19929/