In Praise of Shadows: Tanizaki and Horror
Contributing Editor Marcus Nicholls applies the ideas of Jun’ichirÅ Tanizaki to a comparison of Western and Eastern horror cinema.
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Author of the Month: Guðrún Eva MÃnervudóttir
“Sometimes I think my characters live ready-made in my psyche, the way Jung described our personality — that it is made up of hundreds of people, like a huge theatre.” Guðrún Eva MÃnervudóttir, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, talks to Marcus Nicholls.
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Baudelaire and Cinema, Part II: Temperament
Film Critic Marcus Nicholls applies Baudelaire’s principles of art criticism to F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu, the Vampyr.
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Baudelaire and Cinema, Part I: Colour
Film Critic Marcus Nicholls suggests that we take a look at film, and Gus van Sant’s Last Days in particular, through Baudelaire’s view of art criticism.
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Coraline and Freud’s Uncanny
What do Pixar animation and Freud have in common? Quite a lot — just read Film Critic Marcus Nicholls’ essay and find out.
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The Passion of the Christ as Huysmans’ ‘Spiritual Naturalism’
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A Cold Day in Hell: Gothic Weather in Let the Right One In
Film Critic Marcus Nicholls writes about the manifestation of Winter Gothic in John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In and its film adaptation.
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