By Chris TraficantePublished: March 9, 2010Posted in: Uncategorized
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About the Author
Christopher Traficante is currently working in postgraduate research in Cinema Studies in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia). His research is interested in masculinity, misanthropy and postmodern aesthetics in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen. Currently, Christopher works as a Cinema Studies tutor at the University of Melbourne and as an editor for Platform, an Australian academic media and communications journal. Christopher also works as a film critic in print, online, radio and television environments. Over the last decade, Christopher has gained extensive experience in cinematography, debating, drama and public speaking and he has also worked at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). His areas of interest in Cinema Studies include: antihero and vigilante narratives; auteur theory; masculinity; postmodernism; and the cinemas of Bernardo Bertolucci, Joel and Ethan Coen, Nanni Moretti, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.