a dictionary of spectral curiosities
Book, movie, exhibition, show reviews.
With each passing day I'm starting to think I might be going for a film studies degree next. xD It just seems that my blog is half filled with film reviews, and rereading my posts makes me kind of wish I'd gone for a joint degree in the first place... Oh, well, here goes another …
Continue reading "Trapped in the Obsession: Jan Svankmajer’s Short Films"
This 1932 silent horror was truly a delight to my 6th sense, the sense for all things uncanny. 🙂 Loosely based on Sheridan LeFanu's now almost legendary cult piece, 'Carmilla', Carl Theodor Dreyer's film follows the steps of Allan Grey (played by baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, better known under the stage name of Julian West), …
Continue reading "Shadow Puppets: ‘Vampyr – Der Traum des Allan Grey’"
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter I don't often do book reviews (though this little affirmation is open to debate, since all or most of my academic essays can be said to border on book reviewing), but since the term is over, and I (finally) got the chance to finish reading …
Encyclopaedia Vanitatum 