The last piece in the series (read it here, why not?) covered something of a classic so for this installement it seems appropriate to go for a more contemporary director who is clearly indebted to the form and aesthetics of older horror film. Who better than Ti West? However, I have to start with something … Continue reading The Haunted House on Film Part Three
After starting last week with the piece on Fulci, I thought I would turn to another film that takes even heavier inspiration from Henry James’s novella, “The Turn of the Screw.” The Innocents, directed by arguably the most literary of British film directors, Jack Clayton, is utterly peerless. It is formally and thematically bold in … Continue reading The Haunted House on Film Part Two
For FRJ. Fredric Jameson is dead and it feels like the world has moved on its axis, a center of gravity has shifted. It is almost impossible to give a full and fair summation of Jameson’s achievements - as an intellectual, writer and philosopher he can only be thought of in plural, as many Jamesons. … Continue reading Thought To The Second Power
Over on twitter the other day Nate Holdren asked that one of “the smart literary marxists should write as simple of a book as they can for the rest of us about what we should think of when we watch cop shows or read crime books.” Happily there are quite a lot of smart literary … Continue reading Case Notes on Blochian Detection
https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy/status/1323972170784100352 Habent sua fata libelli - books have their destiny, even if it's just twitter. Thanks to COVID-19, I've been self-isolating for the last ten days or so - happily, my symptoms haven’t been too serious beyond some fatigue, headaches and a mild cough. So, I’ve been trying to fill the time by reading more, … Continue reading Building A Library
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