Poster for Out of Sight (1998) Alex Brannan, one of our newest regular contributors, considers how Steven Soderbergh uses genre elements to create the eroticism of Out of Sight and this year’s Black Bag. Steven Soderbergh is a director whose long career has involved a fascinating migration across genre boundaries. From a certain angle, his… Read more »
Still from *Corpus Callosum What is structural film? Alex Brannan explains the term and its place in the experimental film genre. A wave of films deemed “structural” emerged in the North American avant-garde during the 1960s. This was a brand of minimalist and highly formalist cinema. P. Adams Sitney, who coined the term “structural” to… Read more »
Guest post by Alex Brannan. Horror and comedy – the salty and sweet of genre categories. I feel much has already been made of the horror-comedy as a seemingly incompatible hybrid that nevertheless persists. Not only does it persist, it has lived a life nearly as long as the cinema itself. The playful supernatural fantasies… Read more »