John Mullarkey

Professor of FilmKingston University

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The Return of the Cinematic Dead

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John Mullarkey Kingston University

December 13, 2013
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The Return of the Cinematic Dead optical horror j-horror cinematic thinking animism Curator's Note Film is horrific in its origins. As Éric Dufour argues, the Lumiere brother’s film – L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat – is the first horror mo ...

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Re: Carax's Oneiric Drive

In Cars

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John Mullarkey Kingston University

Thursday, December 12, 2013 — 8:20 am
The car-space is also very interesting in this film. I'm not sure whether Bachelard ever intended to write a poetics of automobiles, but he should have, given the amount of time we spend there (and in this film, to be sure). The car appears as eco-sk ...
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Re: History, Memory, Cinema: Angelopolous's Ulysses' Gaze

Passing

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John Mullarkey Kingston University

Thursday, December 12, 2013 — 8:56 am
Wonderfully sad scene, Robert. I can't help but see it now with Angelopoulos' recent death in mind. Here we have a film-maker's death from heart attack in 1954 being filmed by a film-maker who would die from injuries and a heart attack foll ...