Showing posts with label raymond durgnat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raymond durgnat. Show all posts
Friday, June 26, 2026

TEXTURE THOUGHTS

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I just reread Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451 and noticed an interesting correlation between one of Bradbury's justifications of books...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

LOVE, DENSITY AND CONCRESCENCE

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I haven't written much if anything since 2017 about "density," when in the essay  GOOD WILL QUANTUMS,  I extrapolated a brief ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

THE INFORMAL POSTULATE

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 As I started the prologue of the 2007 film criticism book HITCHCOCK AND PHILOSOPHY, I encountered this justification of the book's prem...
Friday, March 31, 2017

GOOD WILL QUANTUMS

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I preface the discussion referenced in the last post with another citation of my definition of the four potentialities: The KINETIC is ...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

MERCURIAL RISINGS

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My current contemplation of the four potentialities leads me to return to the 2015 essay-series REFLECTIONS IN A MERCURIAL EYE. I wrote this...
Monday, March 27, 2017

COMPLEXITY, MEET DENSITY PT. 2

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For the most part, whenever I've used the term "complexity" on this blog since its beginning in 2007, I've been referring ...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

COMPLEXITY, MEET DENSITY PT. 1

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In order to explain why I'm choosing to devote a lot of space to one essay in Raymond Durgnat's 1967 collection in FILMS AND FEELING...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

DWELLING ON DURGNAT

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I've mentioned Raymond Durgnat (1932-2002) in passing a few times on this blog, but in the coming days I plan to analyze one of his piec...