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  • how to map a film
    • the first maps >
      • Some Maps in Gance's Napoléon
  • Paris
    • 1890s-1909 >
      • firemen in Paris, 1896
      • La Villette c.1896-97
      • Hatot-Breteau 1897
      • Place de l'Opéra
      • Paris 1900
      • French Cancan >
        • the real Paquerette >
          • Paquerettes
      • Alice Guy - Paris locations >
        • Alice Guy in the brothel ...
      • a dangerous street corner
      • Capellani in Paris
      • La Fille du faux-monnayeur
    • 1910-1929 >
      • a gateway out of Paris c.1910
      • L'Enfant de Paris (narrative of an identification)
      • Fantomas Over Paris: episode 1 >
        • Fantomas Over Paris: episode 2 >
          • Fantomas Over Paris: episode 3 >
            • Fantomas Over Paris: episode 4 >
              • Fantomas Over Belgium
      • One Place, Three Films: Fantomas and the French New Wave
      • a staircase in Belleville
      • Vampires Over Paris >
        • Les Vampires 1
        • Les Vampires 2
        • Les Vampires 3
        • Les Vampires 4
        • Les Vampires 5
        • Les Vampires 6
        • Les Vampires, 7
        • Les Vampires 8
        • Les Vampires 9
        • Les Vampires 10
      • Irma Vep posts a letter
      • Inside-Outside: space and light in Judex
      • L'Affaire Barsac
      • neon Paris c.1913
      • electric nights in Paris (and Berlin)
    • 1930-1959 >
      • Quai des Orfèvres
      • Olivia - Audry - 1951
      • Paris Noir: Becker, Dassin, Melville
      • the persistence of graffiti: Paris c.1952
      • Du rififi chez les hommes - reading topotropically >
        • Du rififi chez les hommes - locations identified
      • Het Parijs van Le Ballon rouge
    • the New Wave and after >
      • New Wave places >
        • New Wave Paris >
          • New Wave Newness: architecture in Paris
          • Eric Rohmer in the rue de la Huchette, c.1956
          • Les 400 coups: Paris locations >
            • Baisers volés
          • 'New York Herald Tribune' - Parrish and Godard on the rue de Berri >
            • A bout de souffle (narrative of an identification)
          • the Grisbi connection: Chabrol and Becker
          • Les Bonnes Femmes: sequence by sequence
          • Une femme est une femme: the places documented
          • the boulevard des Italiens
          • Jules et Jim: Paris configured
          • the place of cinema: cinema as location in Vivre sa vie
          • Godard and Melville: the view from the rue Jenner >
            • Melville: more views from the rue Jenner
          • the New Wave in Pigalle c.1963
          • La Peau douce - displaced places
          • Le Bonheur 1965
          • Paris vu par
          • Masculin Féminin
          • The Topography of La Guerre est finie
        • France
      • Le Samourai: places and maps >
        • Un flic: art and artifice
      • Bresson in Paris - Pickpocket
      • Bresson 69-71
      • Every Revolution
      • statues in Godard and Duras
      • Holy Motors >
        • Holy Motors - notes
    • banlieues >
      • Le Canal de Ourcq
      • Ville d'Avray en 1903
      • Three filmmakers in Romainville
      • filmmaking in the Fontainebleau forest
      • Feuillade's lonely villas
      • anarchists in the suburbs c.1912
      • One Church Two Cemeteries: Clouzot and Chabrol at Montfort L'Amaury
      • Feuilladian Franju - Les Yeux sans visage
      • country houses and suburban villas
      • banlieue locations in L'Amour existe
      • the Landru Villa
      • 1 place 2 filmmakers: Rivette & Chabrol in Ermenonville
      • Céline et Julie: what's the address of that house?
      • cinemas in La Petite Voleuse
    • The Stairs: Paris
  • London
    • 1890s-1920s >
      • Lumiere London >
        • Lumière London, bis
      • Robert Paul in London: tour guide and film maker
      • Ultus in Isleworth
      • Cocaine 1922
      • Fu Manchu 1923
    • London Locations >
      • Piccadilly Circus >
        • Piccadilly Circus in films
        • Piccadilly Circus in art
        • Piccadilly Circus in postcards
        • Piccadilly Circus photographed
        • Piccadilly Circus: invisible things
      • Muswell Hill
      • the Arsenal Stadium mysteries
      • Brentford streets on screen
    • the locality of London studios >
      • Early Ealing
      • straight out of Whetstone
      • Walthamstow's studios
    • Sherlock Holmes >
      • some Baker Street irregularities
      • an American Sherlock in London
    • Sojourners + Cosmopolitans >
      • London in French Film >
        • Rififi in London
        • London in London River
      • maps in krimis
      • Kriminal (1966)
      • Kaurismaki's London c. 1989
    • places in Face
  • Geneva
    • Swiss New Wave - shared-world practice
    • Geneva in Swiss New Wave films >
      • SNW Geneva: collective housing
      • SNW Geneva: villas
      • SNW Geneva: bowlings + piscines
    • The Chronology of Le Petit Soldat
    • La Lune avec les dents (Michel Soutter 1966)
    • L'Inconnu de Shandigor (J.-L. Roy 1967)
  • signage, etc.
  • studios, etc.
    • Eclair
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    • Gaumont >
      • Cité Elgé locations
    • Lumière
    • Lux
    • Pathé >
      • Where's Max >
        • when Harry met Max, and where
        • Max takes the train
      • Bébé victime d'une erreur...
      • Montreuil in Pathe films
      • Pathé police stations
      • Pathé filmmaking in Nice c. 1908
    • studios & the local >
      • Ealing >
        • Kind Hearts and Coronets: suburbia and other places
        • the view from Ealing
  • my local filmmaker
    • The Unfortunate Policeman >
      • Buy Your Own Cherries >
        • The Medium Exposed >
          • The ? Motorist >
            • The Fatal Hand >
              • A Little Bit of Cloth
              • Blind Man's Bluff >
                • Bill Sikes Up-To-Date
    • Walter Booth in Muswell Hill
  • my local cinemas
  • favourites
    • Agnès Varda >
      • Cleo 5-7 - Time
      • Sans toit ni loi >
        • Sans toit ni loi - the 12 tracking shots
        • Mona's postcard collection
    • Alice Guy >
      • Alice Guy + JLG
    • Chris Marker
    • Jacques Rivette >
      • a map of Out 1
      • Le Pont du Nord: locations identified >
        • topographical telescoping in Le Pont du Nord
        • Le Pont du Nord (narrative of an identification)
    • J.-L. Godard >
      • Godardiana
      • A bout de souffle: footnotes to the film >
        • A bout de souffle - the cast list
        • A bout de souffle in colour
      • photographs in Le Petit Soldat
      • Bande à part
      • Paintings in Pierrot le fou
      • sculptures in Made in USA
      • Les Fins de Godard
      • Week End - time, place and cars
      • Bukowski in Sauve qui peut (la vie)
      • Life magazine + Hdc
    • J.-P. Melville
    • Louis Feuillade
    • Max Linder
    • Robert Paul
  • cine-tourists
    • a German tourist in Paris: Le Silence de la mer
    • an American tourist in Paris
    • History Lessons in Rome
  • Nouvelle Vague
    • New Wave Christmas
    • the New Wave and modern art >
      • New Wave Braque
      • New Wave Chagall
      • New Wave Klee
      • New Wave Manet
      • New Wave Miro
      • New Wave Modigliani
      • New Wave Picasso
      • Pierre Alechinsky in Le Joli Mai (1963)
    • New Wave cameos
    • Attal et Zardi
    • Le Signe du Lion: six small things
    • New Wave films in New Wave films
    • Cahiers du Cinéma on screen
  • other things
    • assorted stamps
    • Maps in Books
    • the topographies of La Fille aux yeux d'or
    • place-time in Thérèse Raquin
    • photography >
      • 10 photographs by Brassaï in 3 Paris dancehalls >
        • painters in the rue Blomet
      • Gisèle Freund in Paris >
        • Gisèle Freund in Histoire(s) du cinéma
      • Godard's Histoire(s): photographs of women
      • the photographer as photographer: André Dino with Tati, Truffaut and Chabrol
      • some Simenon book covers
      • films playing at the Moulin Rouge
    • building sites >
      • a building site and some buildings, c.1961 >
        • Jean Ginsberg
      • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: HLM, cités, grands ensembles >
        • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: Aubervilliers to Bondy
        • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: Drancy to l'île Saint Denis
        • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: La Courneuve to Saint Ouen
        • 93 - Seine Saint Denis: Sevran to Villepinte
      • Chateau Gaillard
      • Euston Station
    • investigations >
      • A Remarkable Journey in Zigoto's New Motor-Car - 1912
      • the Hotel Bristol enigma
    • news >
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    • a picture of great significance
    • A Girl and a Gun >
      • Griffith, Shadowland, May 1922
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    • a Succession of Edwards
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  • Publications
The Cine-Tourist

​2018
  • Lack, R.F. (2018). Lumière, Méliès, Pathé & Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896-1920. In Met, P., Schilling, D. (Eds.), Screening the Paris suburbs, from the silent era to the 1990s. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
2017
  • Lack, R.F. (2017). ‘Local Film Subjects’: Suburban Cinema, 1895-1910. In Hirsch, P., O'Rourke, C. (Eds.), London on film. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lack, R.F. (2017). Le signe de la carte. Lecture cartographique du Signe du Lion. In Moreau, H. (Ed.), Le Paradis français d'Eric Rohmer. (pp. 239-244). Paris: Pierre Guillaume de Roux.
  • Lack, R.F. (2017). Mapping Out 1:  Thirteen Cartographic Footnotes. The Cine-Files,
  • Lack, R.F. (2017). The Cine-Tourist’s Map of New Wave Paris. In Penz, F., Koeck, R. (Eds.), Cinematic Urban Geographies. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lack, R.F. (2017). The New Wave Hotel. In Phillips, A., Vincendeau, G. (Eds.), Paris in the cinema. Beyond the flâneur. London: Palgrave Macmillan/BFI.
2013
  • Lack, R.F. (2013). Irma Vep poste une lettre. Le Tigre, (34), 36-40.
  • Lack, R. (2013). Topografia filmu Vojna sa skončila: Priestory, miesta, ne-miesta a iné priestory. (M. Michalovič Trans.). In Čeněk, D., Kaňuch, M., Michalovič, M. (Eds.), Alain Resnais – Kinematografia mozgu. (pp. 93-107). Bratislava: SFI (Slovak Film Institute).
2012
  • Lack, R. (2012). A photograph and a camera: two objects in Film Socialisme. Vertigo, (30),
  • Lack, R. (2012). Ulice noirivého Paríža: lekcie Beckera, Dassina a Melvilla. In Kaňuch, M., Michalovič, M. (Eds.), Poetika zločinu: Francúzsky film noir. (pp. 115-128). Bratislava Slovakia: Edícia Cinematik.
2011
  • Lack, R. (2011). ‘Echoes of the horn’: intertextual variations on Vigny. In Segal, N., Rye, G. (Eds.), When familiar meanings dissolve: essays from the commemorative conference for Malcolm Bowie. (pp. 324-342). Oxford: Peter Lang.
  • Lack, R. (2011). 'A bout de souffle : les intertextes d’un plan'. In Leutrat, J.L. (Ed.), Cinéma et littérature: le grand jeu 2. (pp. 467-478). Le Havre, France: De l'Incidence.
  • Lack, R. (2011). Sex power: Bernadette Lafont and the sexual revolution in French cinema circa 1968. In Jackson, J., Williams, J.S., Milne, A.-.L. (Eds.), May 68: rethinking France's last revolution. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • LACK, R. (2011). 'Tony Pipolo: Robert Bresson, a passion for film'. H-France, 11 1-3.
  • LACK, R. (2011). Una fotografía y una cámara: dos objetos en Film Socialisme. Lumière, (Suppl.1), 85-88.
2010
  • Lack, R.F. (2010). L'école des correspondances: Lautréamont et Rimbaud. Dix-Neuf, 14 (1), 13-19.
  • Lack, R.F. (2010). Paris nous appartient: reading without a map. Australian Journal of French Studies, 47 (2),
  • Lack, R.F. (2010). The sign of the map: cartographic reading in Rohmer’s Le Signe du Lion. Senses of Cinema, 54
2009
  • Lack, R.F. (2009). The Swiss hotel film. In Moving pictures/stopping places. Lanham MD: Lexington Books.
2008
  • Lack, R.F. (2008). First encounters: French literature and the cinematograph. Film History: An International Journal, 20 (2), 133-143. doi:10.2979/FIL.2008.20.2.133
  • Lack, R.F. (2008). Vivre sa vie: an introduction and A to Z. Senses of Cinema, 48
2007
  • Lack, R. (2007). London Circa Sixty Six. In Cunningham, G., Barber, S. (Eds.), London Eyes: Reflections in Text and Image. (pp. 149-176). Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books.
2004
  • Lack, R.F. (2004). A bout de souffle: the film of the book. Literature Film Quarterly, 32 (3), 207-212.
  • Walker, L., Beckett, J., Church Gibson, P., Blaker, H. (2004). Art and Design: A Source Book. London: British Film Institute.
  • Lack, R.P.G. (2004). DVD commentary on Jean Cocteau's film Orphée.
  • Lack, R.F. (2004). Good work, little soldier: text and pretext. Journal of European Studies, 34 (1-2), 34-43. doi:10.1177/0047244104044240
  • Lack, R. (2004). Sa voix. In Temple, M., Williams, J., Witt, M. (Eds.), For ever Godard. (pp. 312-329). London: Black Dog Publishing.
2003
  • (2003). The point in time: precise chronology in early Godard. Studies in French Cinema, 3 (2), 101-109. doi:10.1386/sfci.3.2.101/0
2002
  • Lack, R.F. (2002). DVD commentary on Jean-Luc Godard's film Bande à part.
2001
  • Lack, R.F. (2001). Faut-il que j'écrive en vers: poésie et prosodie. In Lefrère, J.J., Pierssens, M. (Eds.), Les Poésies d'Isidore Ducasse. (pp. 97-102). Tusson: Du Lérot/AAPPFID.
1998
  • ffrench, R.P., Lack, R.F. (1998). 'Dissemination'. In ffrench, R.P., Lack, R.F. (Eds.), The Tel Quel Reader. (pp. 243-247). London: Routledge.
  • ffrench, R.P., Lack, R.F. (1998). 'Introduction'. In ffrench, R.P., Lack, R.F. (Eds.), The Tel Quel Reader. (pp. 1-8). London: Routledge.
  • Lack, R.F. (1998). Les replis tortueux de l\'intertextuel: Racine and Lautréamont, Prosody and Prose. French Forum, 23 (2), 167-178.
  • Lack, R.F. (1998). Poetics of the Pretext: Reading Lautréamont. Exeter: Exeter University Press.
  • Lack, R.F., ffrench, P. (Eds.), (1998). The Tel quel reader. London: Routledge.
1997
  • (1997). Jacques Derrida, 'Writing Proofs' & Jean-Fran‡ois Lyotard, 'Translator's Notes'.
1996
  • Lack, R.F. (1996). Postface. In Tennoby, J.M. (Ed.), Disparition d'Alain: fleuriste, séropositif et arnaqueur. (pp. 115-118). Woignarue, France: Vague verte.
  • Lack, R.F. (1996). Screen as figure. Paragraph, 19 (1), 58-67.
1995
  • Lack, R.F. (1995). La littérature de Martial: Plagiarism as Figure in Sade, Lautréamont, Ouologuem and Sony Labou Tansi. Romanic Review, 86 (4), 681-696.
1994
  • LACK, R.-.F. (1994). Foreword. Paragraph, 17 (3), 191-193. doi:10.3366/para.1994.17.3.191
  • Lack, R.F. (1994). Foreword to 'Keywords'. Paragraph, 17 (3), 191-193.
  • Lack, R.F. (1994). Lautréamont and Aldington. In Blayac, A., Zilboorg, C. (Eds.), Richard Aldington: Essays in honour of the centenary of his birth. (pp. 75-84). Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry.
1992
  • Lack, R.F. (1992). How to do things with theory, review of Christine Brooke-Rose, Stories, Theories and Things. Paragraph, 15 (2), 206-209.
1990
  • Lack, R.F. (1990). Intertextuality or influence: Kristeva, Bloom and the Poésies of Isidore Ducasse. In Worton, M., Still, J. (Eds.), Intertextuality: theories and practices. (pp. 130-142). Manchester University Press.
  • Lack, R.F. (1990). The Poésies of Isidore Ducasse, comte de Lautréamont: Some Precursors and Pretexts. French Studies Bulletin, 33 10-14.
1989
  • Lack, R.F. (1989). Readings of allegory: rhetorical approaches to Lautréamont. Paragraph, 12 (2), 158-170.