Texture in Film
tentative thoughts and snippets from an interdisciplinary study of texture in film, bringing together discussion of style, criticism and sensation.
Rough thoughts: Touch and surface
Today I’ve been reading Steven Connor’s The Book of Skin (London: Reaktion Books, 2004) and it has been making me think about feeling touch and surface, particularly this part: ‘As … Continue reading
Digital film: flatness and (my) snobbery
Sometimes I will watch a film and I will notice a slight flatness, that is not attributable to depth of space particularly, or a feeling that decor or props … Continue reading
Texture in Film Symposium, 9th March 2013
I’m delighted to announce the provisional programme for ‘Texture in Film’ a one-day symposium, 9th March, 2013, Centre for Film Studies, University of St Andrews. Registration is £30 standard and … Continue reading
Sirk: thinking about texture
The films of Douglas Sirk are an important starting point for my thinking about texture, and the way in which it offers a conceptual tool to bring together discussion of … Continue reading
CFP: Texture in Film
9th March 2013, Centre for Film Studies, University of St Andrews. Deadline for Proposals: 11th January 2013. Texture is more commonly discussed in relation to visual art and design, music … Continue reading
V.F. Perkins and Fictional Worlds
In his chapter entitled ‘Where is the World?: The Horizon of Events in Movie Fiction’, V.F. Perkins suggests the following: A new engagement with worldhood should be of value, not … Continue reading
Depth
When Fred returns from Andy’s party, where he has met a strange man claiming to be in his house, he enters the space without his wife, telling her to stay … Continue reading
Surface and light
The opening image of Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997) establishes a concern with appealing to our sensorial acuity, our ability to make sense of what we see through response to surface … Continue reading
Tactility: 3 Spaces
Thinking about the tactility of space, here are 3 very different spaces and some words about the qualities of each: Damp, crumbling, dank, cracked, bare, cold, old, unhomely (although the … Continue reading
Starting off – Ernies’
It feels appropriate to begin a discussion of texture with a Hollywood melodrama from the 50s, a mode which, at that time probably more than any other, was particularly attuned … Continue reading
