Selected Publications

Books, forthcoming:

Framing Ferrante: Adaptation and Intermediality from Troubling Love to The Lying Life of Adults. Co-edited with Roberta Cauchi-Santoro. Under contract with la Società Editrice Fiorentina (Florence, Italy).

Journal Special issues in preparation:

The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies: “Critical Posthumanism in Italian Cinema and Media.” Co-edited with Enrica Ferrara. Forthcoming Winter 2024.

Journal Articles, under review:

“From Posthumanist Memory to Posthumanist Time: Three Films (The Posthumanist Elegiac)”. Film-Philosophy (revise and re-submit)

Book Chapters, forthcoming:

“Watch Out! Flashback!: Fellini’s Memory Films.” In Federico Fellini: Centenary Essays. Ed. Alberto Zambenedetti, et al. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

“Socially Mediatized Identities vs. The Law of the Heart: Posthuman Memory in Sophie Deraspe’s Antigone.” In Digital Memory Agents in Canada. Matthew Cormier and Amanda Spallacci, eds. University of Alberta Press. Forthcoming 2023.

Journal special issue, edited:

Guest Editor, Arts. Special issue: ‘Memory, Affect, and Cinema.’ 2019. (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/memory_affect_cinema).

Book Chapters, invited:

“The Pope, The Queen, and the Football Star: An Introduction to Paolo Sorrentino.” Solaris, Textos de cine 6 (Spain). Special issue on Paolo Sorrentino (September 2021). 19-28.

“The Inuit Elegiac: One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk.” The Isuma Book (Venice Biennale 2019).

Book Chapters:

“Affect/Face/Close-up: Beyond the Affection-Image in Postsecular Cinema.” In From Deleuze to Posthumanism: Philosophies of Immanence. Ed. Christine Daigle and Terrance McDonald. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. 147-69.

“The ‘Primal Scene’: Memory, Redemption, and ‘Woman’ in the Films of Paolo Sorrentino.” Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television. Ed. Annachiara Mariani. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2021. Reprinted from The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 7:3 (2019). Special issue on ‘Paolo Sorrentino.’ 377-94.

“The Young Pope’s Credit Sequence: A Postsecular Allegory in Ten Paintings.” Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television. Ed. Annachiara Mariani. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2021.

“Il ritorno in patria: From Rimini to Winnipeg by Way of the Alps.” A Companion to Federico Fellini. Ed. Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller, and Marita Gubareva. Wiley Blackwell, 2020. 419-24.

“The Immortal Thighs of Ines Orsini: The Transcendence of Grace in Denis Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions.” Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema Between The Tree of Life and Melancholia, eds. John Caruana and Mark Cauchi. SUNY Buffalo University Press, 2018, 189-210.

“Translating Affect: Inuit Cinema, Affect Theory, and Knowledge (Re-) Production.” Knowledge Landscapes North America. Ed. Sabine Sielke, et al. Universitätsverlag Winter: Heidelberg, 2016. 269-88.

“When I swallow his heart and lungs, Jesus is pleased”: The Transmediation of Sacrifice in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen.” Cinema and Sacrifice. Ed. Costica Bradatan and Camil Ungureanu. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 95-110. (reprint of Angelaki article, below).

“The Second Look, the Second Death: W.G. Sebald’s Orphic Adaptation of Hitchcock’s Vertigo” (expanded version). Hitchcock and Adaptation. Ed. Mark Osteen. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 227-44.

“‘The Obligations of Memory’: Godard’s Underworld Journeys.” The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard. Eds. Christina Stojanova, Douglas Morrey, et al. Waterloo: WLU Press, 2014. 81-98.

“The Question of Genre in Sebald’s Prose (Towards a Post-Memorial Literature of Restitution).” A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W.G. Sebald. Eds. Ben Hutchinson, Valerie Henitiuk, et al. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2013. 247-64.

“Prosthetic Memory and Transnational Cinema: Globalized Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God.” Millennial Cinema: Representations of Memory in Film. Eds. Terence McSweeney and Amresh Sinha. New York: Wallflower Press, 2012. 71-96.

“Re-writing Reality: Reading The Matrix.” Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Ed. Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell, 2008. 1034-1043. Reprinted from Canadian Journal of Film Studies 9:2. (Autumn 2000): 43-54.

“Catastrophe with Spectator: Subjectivity, Intertextuality and the Representation of History in The Rings of Saturn.” W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History. Eds. Anne Fuchs and J.J. Long. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. 139-62.

“Kafka, Nabokov…Sebald: Intertextuality and Narratives of Redemption in Vertigo and The Emigrants.” W.G. Sebald: History—Memory—Trauma. Eds. Scott Denham and Mark R. McCulloh. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2006. 33-63.

“Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” W.G. Sebald—A Critical Companion. Eds. J.J. Long and Anne Whitehead. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. 140-54. Reprinted in the U.S. and Canada by Washington University Press (Seattle: 2004).

Invited Journal Articles:

“Adorno, Beckett… Wagner, Artaud: Reflections on Stefan Sorgner’s Philosophy of Posthuman Art.” Deliberatio 2:2 (2022): 83-100.

Refereed Journal Articles:

“The ‘Fast Runner’ Trilogy, Inuit Cultural Memory and Knowledge (Re-) Production.” “Indigenous Knowledges in North America,” a special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 68.2 (2020). Ed. Kerstin Knopf and Birgit Dawes. 191-208.

“The Train is Always Arriving: Nostalgic Remediation in Remembrance”. Short Film Studies 10:1 (2020), special issue on ‘Remembrance.’ Pp. 65-68.

“The ‘Primal Scene’: Memory, Redemption, and ‘Woman’ in the Films of Paolo Sorrentino.” The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 7:3 (2019). Special issue on ‘Paolo Sorrentino.’ 377-94.

“Adapting Venice: Intermedial Relations in Visconti, Sebald, and Kafka.” ‘lifedeath’: Mosaic special issue (48.3). Sept. 2015, 57-74.

“When I swallow his heart and lungs, Jesus is pleased”: The Transmediation of Sacrifice in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen.” ‘The Metamorphoses of Sacrifice in Contemporary Cinema’: Special issue of Angelaki—The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 19. 4 (December 2014). Ed. Costica Bradatan and Camil Ungureanu. 95-110.

“Film Adaptation in the Post-Cinematic Era.” Journal of Adaptation in Performance and Film 7.2 (Summer 2014): 155-58 (with Patrick Faubert).

“If This is Your Land, Where is Your Camera?: Atanarjuat, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen and Post-Cinematic Adaptation.” Journal of Adaptation in Performance and Film 7.2 (2014): 195-207. Part of a four-essay dossier on ‘Post-Cinematic Adaptation’, ed. R. Kilbourn and Patrick Faubert, 195-207.

“(No) Voice Out of the Whirlwind: The Book of Job and the End of the World in Tree of Life, Take Shelter, and A Serious Man.” Adaptation 7.1 (2014): 25-46.

“Camera Arriving at the Station: Cinematic Memory as Cultural Memory.” ‘Ghost-towns: Cityscapes, Memories and Critical Theory’: Special issue of Societies 3.3 (2013): 316-331. Eds. Graeme Gilloch and Changnam Lee. Reprinted as “Kameraga yeoke dochakhada: munwhajeok giyeokuroseo yeongwhajeok giyeok” in Benjamingua 21 Segi Dosimunwha (Korean Translation of Ghost-Towns: Cityscapes, Memories and Critical Theory). Ed. Changnam Lee and Graeme Gilloch. Seoul: Saemulgyul Publisher, 2018. 223-255.

“The Second Look, the Second Death: W.G. Sebald’s Orphic Adaptation of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.” Clues 31.1 (January 2013): 79-90.

“The Unnamable: Denegative Dialogue.” Joyce, Beckett, and the Art of the Negative (European Joyce Studies 16). Ed. Colleen Jaurretche. Amsterdam/New York, 2005. 63-89.

“American Frankenstein: Modernity’s Monstrous Progeny.” Mosaic 38.3 (Sept. 2005): 167-83.

“Re-writing Reality: Reading The Matrix.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 9: 2. (Autumn 2000): 43-54.

“The Bureaucracy of Desire: A Reading of Das Schloβ.” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 23: 1-2 (June/December 1999): 50-62.

“Ada in Chiasmus: Chiasmus in Ada.” Journal of Nabokov Studies 5 (1998/99): 129-143

“Redemption Revalued in Tristan and Isolde: Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche.” University of Toronto Quarterly 67.4 (Fall 1998) (special issue: Proceedings of “Voices of Opera: Performance, Production, Interpretation” Symposium): 781-88. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism 119. Ed. Russ Whitaker. The Gale Group.

“Toward a Non-Euclidean Cinema: Kieslowski and Literature.” The Canadian Journal of Film Studies 6.2 (Fall 1997): 34-50.

Non-refereed:

“Introducing Interconnections” (with Christine Daigle). Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism 1.1 (2021). https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/posthumanismstudies.

“Reflections on Posthumanism: In the Beginning, the Face.” Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism 1.1 (2021). https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/posthumanismstudies.

Online Articles/Entries, invited:

“The Inuit Elegiac: One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk.” The Isuma Book (Venice Biennale 2019). http://www.isuma.tv/isuma-book.

Online Articles/Entries:

Premediation (Grusin).” International Encyclopedia of Media Effects. Ed. P. Roessler, C. Hoffner, & L. van Zoonen. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2017.

“Memory and Film.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory. Ed. Warren Buckland and Edward Branigan. New York: Routledge, 2013.

“Memory and the Flashback in Film.” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies. Editor-in-Chief Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press, July 29 2013. http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/.

Russell Kilbourn, R.J.A. Kilbourn, Russel J.A. Kilbourn, Film Theory, Memory Studies, Adaptation, Film and Literature, Transmediality, Affect Theory, W.G. Sebald Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies The Memory Effect: The
Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Toronto, McMaster University