Thomas Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5389-937X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Image Making and Whiteness
Black and white in colour: Looking across race in Spike Lee’s Clockers and Summer of Sam
This essay focuses on two films by Spike Lee: Clockers (1995), adapted from the novel of the same name by the Jewish New York crime writer Richard Price, and Summer of Sam (1999), for which Lee revised an initial script by two Italian Americans, Victor Colicchio and Michael Imperioli. I argue that while Clockers leaves intact and fails to challenge normative tropes of white responsibility for Black rescue and improvement, Summer of Sam offers a m…
Trees on screen: Materiality and symbolism
ReFocus: The Films of Steve Mcqueen
ReFocus: The Films of Steve Mcqueen
Crime Scenes: Landscape, Memory and Atrocity in Jorge Barbi’s El Final, Aquí
Jorge Barbi’s book El Final, Aquí (The End, Here) is a collection of 60 beautifully composed, predominantly rural and always uninhabited landscapes taken throughout Spain. All the images share a common secret: these remote locations are crime scenes, out of the way places where Republicans were executed by Francoists during or after the Spanish Civil War. Barbi states: ‘Places are not witnesses of anything, places do not see us; we recreate them …
Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe
Unmasked: Notes on Joan de la Malla’s “The Sad Clown”
In this brief analysis of Joan de la Malla’s photograph ‘The Sad Clown’, winner of the photojournalism prize at the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, I focus on how the image sets off a series of movements towards and away from the common trope of anthropomorphism, exploring how it works to expose, confound and then re-install this familiar device
Interiority, identity and the limits of knowledge in documentary film
In the cinema, as Marian Keane has noted, ‘the medium of film – and specifically the camera – takes the nature of human interiority as its fundamental subject’. Keane is writing about fiction film, where scripted dialogue, actor performance and codifications presented by mise-en-scene, framing, camera movement, editing patterns, lighting and music typically offer cues to characters’ states of mind and emotions. But these resources are not always …
Indexicality and inter/textuality: 24 City's aesthetics and the politics of memory
Journal Article Indexicality and inter/textuality: 24 City's aesthetics and the politics of memory Get access Thomas Austin Thomas Austin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 55, Issue 2, Summer 2014, Pages 256–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hju012 Published: 01 June 2014
The Effect of Legal and Extra‐Legal Variables on the Recommending and Granting of a Pardon
A familiar but little studied area of criminal justice is that of pardons. Using data from the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, the decision‐making process is examined to determine the degree of correspondence between the board’s recommendation and the governor’s decision to grant or deny a pardon. Included in the analysis is an assessment of the relative impact of legal and extra‐legal variables on the decision‐making process. The paper concludes …
Determining Police Response to Domestic Violence Victims: The Role of Victim Preference
Mid-Pacific oceanography
scope, intended to aid or direct management or utilization practices and as ;;uides for administrative or legislative action.It is issued in limited quantities for the official use of Federal, State or cooperating Agencies and in processed form for economy and to avoid delay in publication.
Determining Police Response to Domestic Violence Victims: The Role of Victim Preference
The Effect of Legal and Extra‐Legal Variables on the Recommending and Granting of a Pardon
A familiar but little studied area of criminal justice is that of pardons. Using data from the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, the decision‐making process is examined to determine the degree of correspondence between the board’s recommendation and the governor’s decision to grant or deny a pardon. Included in the analysis is an assessment of the relative impact of legal and extra‐legal variables on the decision‐making process. The paper concludes …
Mid-Pacific oceanography
scope, intended to aid or direct management or utilization practices and as ;;uides for administrative or legislative action.It is issued in limited quantities for the official use of Federal, State or cooperating Agencies and in processed form for economy and to avoid delay in publication.
Determining Police Response to Domestic Violence Victims: The Role of Victim Preference
The Effect of Legal and Extra‐Legal Variables on the Recommending and Granting of a Pardon
A familiar but little studied area of criminal justice is that of pardons. Using data from the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, the decision‐making process is examined to determine the degree of correspondence between the board’s recommendation and the governor’s decision to grant or deny a pardon. Included in the analysis is an assessment of the relative impact of legal and extra‐legal variables on the decision‐making process. The paper concludes …
Indexicality and inter/textuality: 24 City's aesthetics and the politics of memory
Journal Article Indexicality and inter/textuality: 24 City's aesthetics and the politics of memory Get access Thomas Austin Thomas Austin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 55, Issue 2, Summer 2014, Pages 256–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hju012 Published: 01 June 2014
Interiority, identity and the limits of knowledge in documentary film
In the cinema, as Marian Keane has noted, ‘the medium of film – and specifically the camera – takes the nature of human interiority as its fundamental subject’. Keane is writing about fiction film, where scripted dialogue, actor performance and codifications presented by mise-en-scene, framing, camera movement, editing patterns, lighting and music typically offer cues to characters’ states of mind and emotions. But these resources are not always …
Unmasked: Notes on Joan de la Malla’s “The Sad Clown”
In this brief analysis of Joan de la Malla’s photograph ‘The Sad Clown’, winner of the photojournalism prize at the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, I focus on how the image sets off a series of movements towards and away from the common trope of anthropomorphism, exploring how it works to expose, confound and then re-install this familiar device
Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe
Crime Scenes: Landscape, Memory and Atrocity in Jorge Barbi’s El Final, Aquí
Jorge Barbi’s book El Final, Aquí (The End, Here) is a collection of 60 beautifully composed, predominantly rural and always uninhabited landscapes taken throughout Spain. All the images share a common secret: these remote locations are crime scenes, out of the way places where Republicans were executed by Francoists during or after the Spanish Civil War. Barbi states: ‘Places are not witnesses of anything, places do not see us; we recreate them …
ReFocus: The Films of Steve Mcqueen
ReFocus: The Films of Steve Mcqueen
Black and white in colour: Looking across race in Spike Lee’s Clockers and Summer of Sam
This essay focuses on two films by Spike Lee: Clockers (1995), adapted from the novel of the same name by the Jewish New York crime writer Richard Price, and Summer of Sam (1999), for which Lee revised an initial script by two Italian Americans, Victor Colicchio and Michael Imperioli. I argue that while Clockers leaves intact and fails to challenge normative tropes of white responsibility for Black rescue and improvement, Summer of Sam offers a m…
Trees on screen: Materiality and symbolism
Black Image Making and Whiteness
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