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PETER BROOK’S LORD OF THE FLIES:
Violence on Vieques
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Summer of Soul: The Angel of History Comes to Harlem
in Summer of Soul Decalog, edited by Jaimie Baron and Kristin Fuchs, Routledge, 2024. Read the article
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The File on Theresa Harris, Black Star of the Archive
Feminist Media Histories Vol. 8, Number 3, pps. 86–114 Click for full text
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Sensing the Archive: Exploring The Digital (Im)materiality of the Moving Image Archive
Issue 19, Spring 2022, Guest-Edited by Catherine Russell Introduction to the Issue
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Review of All About Eve DVD
Cineaste, Vol. XLVI No. 1 (Winter 2020)
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Review of Johnny Guitar Blu-ray
Cineaste Vol. XLII No. 2 (Winter 2017) (pdf)
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Review of The Lady Eve DVD
Cineaste, Vol. XLVI No. 1 (Winter 2020)
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“Personne: The Disappearance of the White Man”
Found Footage Magazine Issue #7 March 2021
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Review of Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema
Review of Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema by Joe McElhaney, Cineaste XLVI No. 4 (Fall 2021).
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Barbara Stanwyck Rides Again
A video essay by Catherine Russell Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 8.3, 2021
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“Amazon Cinema: Vegetal Storytelling”
Cinema of Exploration Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice Edited By James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati Full text, Ch. 14
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Review of She Found it at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema
She Found it at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema
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New Books Network podcast about Archiveology
[Listen to the podcast] In her book Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (Duke University Press, 2018), Catherine Russell defines “archiveology” as “the reuse, recycling, appropriation and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers”. In her book, she reviews specific film examples. She also discusses the related work of German philosopher Walter Benjamin…
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Pre-Code Stanwyck
I recorded an interview for Criterion Channel in which I discuss Stanwyck’s precode films. Available soon.
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Cultural Anthropology Book Forum
“Whose Violence Is It?” My response to Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers’s Violence’s Fabled Experiment (2018) is included in this book forum post, Book Forum.
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Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices
In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers—provides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function simply as a place where moving images are preserved, Russell…
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Multimedia
Will Straw and Catherine Russell discuss “My Winnipeg” “Kitsch Historiography: Barbara Stanwyck in the Jungle.” In Media Res (7 Aug. 2013). Isabel Maria, “La cámara como escritura” interviewed for artist’s documentary on Experimental film, October 2009 “Double Obsession: Sex, Death, and Oshima,” Video Essay for Criterion Collection DVD release of Empire of Passion, April 2009 “Mini-cinema: A…
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Reviews
Review of Johnny Guitar Olive Films Blueray release, Cineaste Vol. XLII No. 2 (Winter 2017) Review of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck and Barbara Stanwyck. Cineaste 39.4 (Fall 2014): 71-73. Review of Frank Capra: The Early Collection DVD Box Set (web exclusive) Cineaste (Summer 2013). http://www.cineaste.com/articles/emfrank-capra-the-early-collectionem-web-exclusive Review of Barbara Stanwyck, Miracle Woman by Dan Callahan, Cineaste Vol. XXXVII No.3 2012 (Summer 2012), 61-62. Review of Senso,…
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David Rimmer: Films & Tapes 1967-1993
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1993. This is a catalogue that was produced by the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1993 to accompany an exhibition of David Rimmer’s work in the same year. My essay was commisioned as a critical overview of Rimmer’s career up until 1993.
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The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity
Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008. One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905–69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English, and much of the writing about him in Japanese has not been translated into English. With The Cinema of…
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New Women of the Silent Screen: China, Japan, Hollywood
Special Issue Editor. Camera Obscura 60. Fall 2005. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Carleton University, Imaging Modern Girls in Japanese Silent Cinema Chika Kinoshita, University of Chicago, Actresses in the Transition to Sound in Japanese Cinema Catherine Russell, Concordia University, Naruse Mikio’s Silent Films: Gender and The Discourse of Everyday Life in Interwar Japan Sara Ross, University of…
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Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video
Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate, autonomous practices on the margins of mainstream cinema. By exploring the interplay between the two forms, Catherine Russell throws new light on both the avant-garde and visual anthropology. Russell provides detailed analyses of more than thirty-five films and videos…
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Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure and New Wave Cinemas
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell illustrates in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s. Analyzing the structural importance of death in narrative endings, as well as the thematics of loss and redemption, Russell identifies mortality as a valuable critical tool…
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Classical Japanese Cinema
The book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modelled on Hollywood. The classical period refers to the years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960. My approach to the most well known films of this period situates them within Japanese society and culture, the star…
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Peer-reviewed publications
Edited Books and Journals “Cinema as Timepiece: Perspectives on The Clock,” Dossier in Framework 54.2 (Fall 2013). New Women of the Silent Screen: China, Japan, Hollywood. Special Issue Editor. Camera Obscura 60 Vol 30 no. 3 (2005). “Dossier on Cinephilia and Womens’ Cinema in the 1920s,” edited by Catherine Russell and Rosanna Maule, Framework 46…