cinema:culture

A teaching and research platform for 'Popular cinema and cultural studies' - a Year 2 module in Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College. Includes: module reading links, articles, film and cultural theory, fan sites, reviews, etc.

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Wednesday, July 31, 2002
 
Amy Taubin rates Spike Lee's _Do the Right Thing_ in her top ten movies - Fear of a Black Cinema


Friday, July 12, 2002
 
Links to fan sites about _Fight Club_ and other useful stuff on Palahniuk, etc.: Star Seeker Movies: "Fight Club" (1999) and Yahoo! Movies: Greg's Preview : Fight Club both give lists of fansites; as does Project Mayhem - Fight Club Links. This link takes you to a Chuck Palahniuk site - f i g h t c l u b - the motion picture event... oh, and this one is just another _FC_ site: Welcome to Fight Club


Thursday, July 11, 2002
 
Twelve Monkeys


 
Review: Twelve Monkeys


 
Review: Heavenly Creatures


 
Heavenly creatures who are not that heavenlyTBHL | Peter Jackson | The Works | Heavenly Creatures | Back Cover Information


 
Happy Together againCheun gwong tsa sit (1997) (aka Happy Together)


 
Happy Together


 
Is pleasantvile really such a pleasant place to be?Pleasantville film review


 
To me this looks like the disney copy of shrek with alot more versions of him?Monsters, Inc. Used Monster Tools



 
Pretty Woman Script


 
Unnotting the script of Notting HillNotting Hill Script


 
Return visitors to this site - if there are any of you... - will have noticed a significant increase in posting of late (i.e., today). This is because I have engaged the services of Luke to chase down 'stuff' on films from all over the place. So welcome to Luke!

Now all I have to do is sit back and, oh, get on with the rest of my work...


 
Alien The Game 2Aliens vs Predator 2 Reviews


 
Alien The GameAliens vs Predator Reviews


 
More aliens!Alien Ressurection (1997)


 
Review of Alien 3


 
Its all just a computer game really! Matrix, The (1999)


 
Rosemary Belcher takes a sceptical view of Robert Altman's much-praised _Gosford Park_ in All our (Gothic) yesterdays (from the bountiful pages of openDemocracy.net).


 
July 2002 issue of _Sight and Sound_ has an article on _Muriel's Wedding_ - a great film, much underrated. "My my..." - Sight and Sound - But I'm Beautiful


Monday, July 01, 2002
 
A lovely piece by Zizek on _The Matrix_ (also available in his book _Enjoy Your Symptom!_)which begins from the key question of how a film 'reflects' the theoretical concerns and predispositions of it's 'academic' viewer. Of course, the question doesn't last long, 'cos Zizek is always going to say, as he does in paragraph 2, that the matrix = Lacan's big Other. If that last bit means nothing to you, read on and find out...Zizek - The Matrix: The Truth of Exaggerations