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On-Line Film Journals and E-Zines

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Home Pages for Film Critics and Reviewers

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Semiotics and Film

            
           Film Noir

• "High Heels on Wet Pavement:  Film Noir and the Film Fatale" -- Michael Mills, Classic Films
• "Style:  Narrative Innovations in Film Noir"  -- Michael Mills, Classic Films
  

             Gangster

• Crime and Gangster Films -- Tim Dirks, Greatest Films
  
• "Revenge of the Killer Genre: Pulp Fiction" -- Bryn Chamberlain, Queen's University
• "'Coming Heavy': Intertextuality, Genre, and The Sopranos"  --  David Lavery, PopPolitics.com
• "Simply 'Cat and Mouse'?  The Relationship Between Cop and Criminal in Police Films" (on Heat)  -- Julian Hill, UnOrthodox Reel 
  

            
            The Western

• "The Silent Westerns:  Early Movie Myths of the American West" --  Mary Halnon, U. of Virginia
• "Cookie-Cutter Or Connoisseur? Genre Theory and John Ford's Stagecoach"  --  Katherine Lawrie, Queen's University
• "The Western Revisited in Taxi Driver"--  Ben Famiglietti, Queen's Unversity

             Screwball Comedy

• "Comedy"  -- Imperica.com
  
• "Screwball Comedy"  -- Michael Mills, Classic Films
  

             Melodrama

• "Never Get Out of the Boat:  Operatic Melodrama in Apocalypse Now"  -- James Rennie, Queen's University
  

             Horror

• "Horror" -- Imperica.com
• Kinoeye Archive of Horror Film
  
• Scary Women Symposium --  UCLA
• "Sometimes You Need a Story:  American Christianity, Vampires, and Buffy"  --  Gregory Erickson, PopPolitics.com
• "Point of View Shots in Horror Films" (on Pyscho)-- Julian Hill, Unorthodox Reel
  

          Sci-Fiction

• Science Fiction Film  (page for course at Clemson University, Profs. Sparks and Palmer)
• "Screen Memories:  An Exploration of the Relationship Between Science Fiction Film and the UFO Mythology"  --  Mark Pilkington
• Hannah's Deep Field Space  --  Hannah Pok
  
• Fritz Lang's Metropolis  --  Augusto Cesar B. Areal, Brazil
• 2001:  A Space Odyssey:  Internet Resource Archive -- George D. DeMet
  
• 2019:  Off-World  (Blade Runner page)

         
        Musical

• "Musical Film"  -- Wikipedia:  The Free Encyclopedia
  
• "The Musical Film and Representations of Gay Sexuality" 
  
• "Singing In the Rain:  Close Reading"  --  Adrian Miles
  

          War

• War Film -- Wikipedia:  The Free Encyclopedia
• War and Films --  David Hart, U. of Adelaide
  
• War and War-Era Films  --  The Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley Library

            

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Ideological Analysis of Film

• Marixist Media Theory -- Daniel Chandler
• "Ideological Analysis and Television"  -- Mimi White
  
• Justin Shaw, "Falling Down: Social Contracts and the Logic of the Absurd"  -- Bad Subjects
• "Bad Shorts:  Starwars"  -- Bad Subjects
• Tomas Sandoval, "The Burden of History and John Sayles's Lone Star"  -- Bad Subjects
  
• Greg Dimitriadis,  "Dueling Narratives: Some Thoughts on Menace II Society and Boyz 'N the Hood "  -- Bad Subjects
• Freya Sohnson, "Holy Homosexuality Batman!: Camp and Corporate Capitalism in Batman Forever" -- Bad Subjects
• Ed Korthof, "Love and Denial: The Bridges of Madison County and Other Romances With Ideology" --  Bad Subjects
• Bill Salzmann, "Reality Bites, So Buy a Big Gulp"  -- Bad Subjects
• Annalee Newitz, "It's Fun... But It Takes Courage; Remembering Frank Capra's America"  --  Bad Subjects
  
• "Spielberg and Scorsese Do History" (review of Amistad and Kundun)  --  Jeffrey Youdelman, Cultural Logic 
• "Stephen Spielberg and the Lost Crusade"  (review of Saving Private Ryan and You've Got Mail)  --  Jim Nielson, Cultural Logic
  
• "Destiny: Chahine Re-Writes History"  (review of Youssif Chahine's Destiny)  -- Haidar Eid,  Cultural Logic
  
• "Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are!"  (review of Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film) -- Nathan Tipton, Cultural Logic

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Psychoanalytic Analysis of Film

• "Pyschoanalysis" -- Infoplease.com
• "Psychoanalysis, Film, and Television"  -- Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
• Links to film reviews from a Jungian perspective -- C.G. Jung page
  

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Gender and Film

• "Feminist Film Theory"  -- Cynthia Freeland
• "Feminist Criticism and Television"  -- E. Ann Kaplan
  
• Women in Cinema:  A Reference Guide
• Women Studies Database Film Reviews (U. of Maryland)
• Women Make Movies
  
• Terje Steinulfsson Skjerdal, "Laura Mulvey Against the Grain: A Critical Assessment of the Psychoanalytic Feminist Approach to Film"
• Daniel Chandler, "Notes on ‘The Gaze’"
• Jonathon Holt, "Visual Pleasure in the Realm of the Senses: Laura Mulvey and Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses"
• Gillian Swanson, "Building the Feminine: Feminist Film Theory and Female Spectatorship"  (rev. of  Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s)
• Betsy Weiss, "The Implicated Spectator" (rev. of Judith Mayne, Cinema and Spectatorship)
• Elizabeth Abele, "The Glory of Cary Grant and Other Girlish Delights" (Images Film Journal)
• Kari Molvar, "Visual Pleasure: Women in Counter-Cinema"
• "Two Theories of Spectatorship" (contrasting "Realism" and Mulvey's feminism)
• "Scary Women"  (papers from a symposium at UCLA)
•  Sue Gillet, "A Pleasure to Watch: Jane Campion's Narrative Cinema"  (Screening the Past)

 

• Angela Ndalianis, "Paul Verhoeven and His Hollow Men"   --  Screening the Past
• Leanne McRae,  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Male Defeat"  --  Bad Subjects
• Jeff Akeley, "Marketing Masculinity in Jean-Claude Van Damme's Universal Soldier"  --  Bad Subjects
• "The Homosocial Struggle Versus the Heterosexual "Home":  The Dialectic of Desire in the Films of Nicholas Ray"   --  Anna Phelan-Cox, Queen's University
• "Frank-n-Furter, Michel Dorsey/Dorothy Michels, and Dil: Alternative masculinities in film from the 70's to the 90's   --  Anastasia Kolokotsas, Queen's University
• On Kiss Me Deadly from Screening the Past, Special Issue on Robert Aldrich
• Richard Maltby,  "The problem of interpretation ...": authorial and institutional intentions in and around Kiss me deadly
• Adrian Martin,  The body has no head: corporeal figuration in Aldrich
• Rose Capp,  Straight talk and doublespeak: Kiss me deadly and the legacy of "late noir"
• Caryl Flinn,  Sound, woman and the bomb: dismembering the "great whatsit" in Kiss me deadly

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The Business of Film

• Dark Horizons