I think horror films don’t include enough singing. I’m a sucker for…
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“Bang Bang”: Performance and Trope in Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
There is one absolute certainty in Quentin Tarantino’s two volume Kill Bill…
“We’ll Always Have Paris”: The Greatest Close-Up in Cinema and the “La Marseillaise” Scene in Casablanca (1942)
Film is a form of propaganda. It’s designed to make you feel…
“Give Him a Mask and He’ll Tell You the Truth”: The Life and Death Of Ziggy in Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Biopics tread in blasphemy. There is something impossible about trying to recreate…
“Something Different, Something Real”: Finding Yourself Versus Finding the Artist in Walk the Line (2005)
What Constitutes A Music Biopic? There are songs so legendary and so…
“It’s a Small World, Spiritually Speaking”: Music and Myth in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
“O Muse! Sing in me, and through me tell the story“ Edited…
Building Venus: Automaton Lore in The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
I once watched a woman perform a 5- minute-long aria after her…
“It’s Not Too Much Is It?”: Excess and Modernity in Marie Antoinette (2006)
The shopping scene in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is sweet enough to…
Where are These “Golden Years”?: History as Music in A Knight’s Tale (2001)
One of my favourite uses of intertextuality is when a film uses…
“Who’s There?”: Attacking with Sound in Suspiria (1977)
Horror films are interested in what we can see versus what we…