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Arts & Culture.Feb 22, 2014

In Praise of Shadows: Tanizaki and Horror

Contributing Editor Marcus Nicholls applies the ideas of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki to a comparison of Western and Eastern horror cinema.

By Tom Nixon
Roving Eye.Dec 14, 2013

Author of the Month: Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir

“Sometimes I think my characters live ready-made in my psyche, the way Jung described our personality — that it is made up of hundreds of people, like a huge theatre.” Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, talks to Marcus Nicholls.

By Jacob Silkstone
Arts & Culture.Aug 21, 2013

Baudelaire and Cinema, Part II: Temperament

Film Critic Marcus Nicholls applies Baudelaire’s principles of art criticism to F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu, the Vampyr.

By Rhea Cinna
Arts & Culture.Jul 4, 2013

Baudelaire and Cinema, Part I: Colour

Film Critic Marcus Nicholls suggests that we take a look at film, and Gus van Sant’s Last Days in particular, through Baudelaire’s view of art criticism.

By Rhea Cinna
Arts & Culture.Jun 15, 2013

Coraline and Freud’s Uncanny

What do Pixar animation and Freud have in common? Quite a lot — just read Film Critic Marcus Nicholls’ essay and find out.

By Rhea Cinna
Film.Apr 15, 2013

A Cold Day in Hell: Gothic Weather in Let the Right One In

Film Critic Marcus Nicholls writes about the manifestation of Winter Gothic in John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In and its film adaptation.

By Rhea Cinna