Stefan Solomon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Solomon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Solomon |
| SIGNATURE | SOLOMON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7697-1135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Elemental melodrama
Written on the Wind (1956), Douglas Sirk’s mid-century saga of a Texas oil dynasty, stands as one of the émigré filmmaker’s best-known works from his string of Hollywood melodramas made in the 1950
The most elemental process
Of the various criticisms that have been levelled at Danny Boyle's Sunshine (2007), a common complaint is that the film's narrative descends from the cosmic heights of its setup -the dying sun must be resurrected explosively by a team of intrepid astronauts lest Earth freeze over -to the histrionic depths of its ending, in which the improbable return of a Kurtz-like individual grounds the plot as a struggle of individual wills.For several critics…
Geoblocking the Sun
The basis for works by such filmmakers as James Benning and Kevin Jerome Everson, the “Great American Eclipse” of August 2017 demonstrated the desire of artists’ film to capture the unique phenomenon of totality, when the moon completely obscures the sun for a period of several minutes. Beyond the borders of the United States, the transnational efforts of Lukas Marxt’s Double Dawn (2014) in Australia and J.P. Sniadecki’s The Yellow Bank (2010) in…
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Barravento Novo (2017), written by Eder Santos and Bruce Yonemoto, dirs
Intermediality in Brazilian cinema
The contributors to this proposed dossier are investigators on the AHRC-FAPESP funded Intermidia Project, which explores the uses and possible advantages of intermediality as a historiographic method applicable to cinema in general, and Brazilian cinema in particular. The choice of the artistic movement known as ‘Tropicália’ or ‘Tropicalism’ as the dossier’s common thread is due, in the first place, to its strong reliance on intermediality. This …
The cloak of technicolor’
While shooting O dragão da maldade contra o santo guerreiro/Antônio das Mortes in 1969, Glauber Rocha turned to colour film. Although it was not the first time he had worked with colour, here the director made special use of Eastmancolor technology in bringing to life the world of Deus e o diabo na terra do sol/Black God, White Devil (1964) that had previously appeared only in black-and-white. In his earlier manifesto, ‘The Aesthetics of Hunger’ …
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Intermediality in Brazilian cinema
The contributors to this proposed dossier are investigators on the AHRC-FAPESP funded Intermidia Project, which explores the uses and possible advantages of intermediality as a historiographic method applicable to cinema in general, and Brazilian cinema in particular. The choice of the artistic movement known as ‘Tropicália’ or ‘Tropicalism’ as the dossier’s common thread is due, in the first place, to its strong reliance on intermediality. This …
The cloak of technicolor’
While shooting O dragão da maldade contra o santo guerreiro/Antônio das Mortes in 1969, Glauber Rocha turned to colour film. Although it was not the first time he had worked with colour, here the director made special use of Eastmancolor technology in bringing to life the world of Deus e o diabo na terra do sol/Black God, White Devil (1964) that had previously appeared only in black-and-white. In his earlier manifesto, ‘The Aesthetics of Hunger’ …
Barravento Novo (2017), written by Eder Santos and Bruce Yonemoto, dirs
Geoblocking the Sun
The basis for works by such filmmakers as James Benning and Kevin Jerome Everson, the “Great American Eclipse” of August 2017 demonstrated the desire of artists’ film to capture the unique phenomenon of totality, when the moon completely obscures the sun for a period of several minutes. Beyond the borders of the United States, the transnational efforts of Lukas Marxt’s Double Dawn (2014) in Australia and J.P. Sniadecki’s The Yellow Bank (2010) in…
Incomplete
Elemental melodrama
Written on the Wind (1956), Douglas Sirk’s mid-century saga of a Texas oil dynasty, stands as one of the émigré filmmaker’s best-known works from his string of Hollywood melodramas made in the 1950
The most elemental process
Of the various criticisms that have been levelled at Danny Boyle's Sunshine (2007), a common complaint is that the film's narrative descends from the cosmic heights of its setup -the dying sun must be resurrected explosively by a team of intrepid astronauts lest Earth freeze over -to the histrionic depths of its ending, in which the improbable return of a Kurtz-like individual grounds the plot as a struggle of individual wills.For several critics…
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