cinetext is a bilingual internet forum for film and philosophy located at the University of Vienna (Austria) addressing students, researchers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in the thoughtful exploration of cinema, film, and television.

cinetext is designed as a collaborative project. We appreciate all contributions, which help us to maintain the growth and quality of this site. Open a discussion at the cinetext mailing list or send in a film review. Expand our collection of cinetexts through the submission of an original arcticle or a paper you've written during one of your courses. Add a synopsis, book review or commentary in the annotated bibliography of the cinetext film books section. Or simply tell us about a new or recommended site we've not yet included in our selection of cinelinks.

All languages are welcome. However, for the benefit of us and our mailing list subscribers we recommend submitting texts in German or English. Titles and descriptions are usually given in the text's original language in order to indicate the language of contributions to cinetext.

What's new?

• July 2009
  • Frames, Cons, and Double-Crosses: The Theatrical Cinema of David Mamet. By Henry M. Taylor
• February 2009
  • Sein ist Wahrgenommenwerden: Spätmoderne Erzählstrategie und Epistemologie in Michelangelo Antonionis „Blow-Up“. By Jochen Dubiel
• January 2009
  • The Portrayal of Lucifer in Alan Parker’s Angel Heart. By Jens Nepper
• August 2008
  • Der gespaltene Blick: Rezeption und Psychologie des Horrorfilms in Nosferatu, Psycho und The Hills Have Eyes. By Jerome Philipp Schäfer
• December 2007
  • The opening montage in William Friedkin’sThe Boys in the Band: an appreciation. By Sarah Boslaugh

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The cinetext mailing list provides subscribers with a quick and easy way to exchange views, commentary and criticism, announce upcoming events and publications or point to other relevant resources available on the web. All contributions are saved in the mailing list archives.

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cinetexts is our small but growing collection of filmwritings, including reviews, articles, papers and essays written and contributed, by scholars, students and members of the cinetext mailing list community. New submissions are usually added as soon as they become available.

Contents include:

• Rebel Without a Cause - A Filmreview by John Barker.
• What is the Name of the Father? by Matthew Sharpe. - A psychoanalytic reading of An Officer and a Gentleman
• Filmtheorien und Gender by Evamaria Trischak. - Eine Einführung zur feministischen und Gender-Filmforschung.
• Potterland by Paul Delany - An essay covering the life and art of Dennis Potter.
• Der Film Andrej Rublëv von Andrej Tarkovskij von Michaela M. Kastinger-Haslinger. - Diplomarbeit mit einem Einstellungsprotokoll für den gesamten Film!
• Reflexion von Herbert Hrachovec. - Ein Kapitel aus seinem Buch Drehorte.
• Circulus Vitiosus: Spurensuche auf David Lynchs Lost Highway mit Slavoj Zizek
  von Robert Blanchet
• Kommunikation und Identität in David Lynchs Blue Velvet und Wild at Heart
  von Alexander Koller
• ...dogme 95 by Evamaria Trischak. - A short introction to the danish film manifesto originally created by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.

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Created in association with Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de, cinetext film books keeps you up to date on new and recent releases, provides you with comments and information about standard texts and recommended readings, and let's you order books directly from the Amazon branch most convenient for you, by following one of the shop links added to each entry of our growing database. Using this free service is a way for you to support cinetext.

Browse our link section to find what, we believe, are some of the richest and most useful film related sites and resources on the web.

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