Thinking in Action
by Diarmuid Costello (2018 [2017])
- Photography — Philosophy.
- Photography — History.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Aesthetics.
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The Opera Quarterly
by Annette Davison (2018)
Brian De Palma’s film Phantom of the Paradise (1974) is decidedly “palimpsestuous,” to use a term introduced by Gérard Genette in his discussion of the relationships between texts.2 A palimpsest is here defined as “a text derived from another pre-existent t
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The Opera Quarterly
by Roberto Calabretto (2018)
In the long history of cinematic remakes of The Phantom of the Opera, Argento’s film is, contrary to the considered opinions of critics and even his own fans, not a “wrong turn” in the trajectory of one of the horror genre’s most disconcerting masters, but
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The Opera Quarterly
Although never featured explicitly in adaptations of this much-adapted text, the opening gambit of Gaston Leroux’s novel is fundamental not only to his enterprise but to that of many attempts to render it as cinema.
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