Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez

Adrian Martin teaches in Film and Television Studies, and is Co-Director of the Research Unit in Film Culture and Theory at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). A practicing film critic since 1979, he is the author of five previous books (Phantasms, Once Upon a Time in America, Raúl Ruiz: sublimes obsesiones, The Mad Max Movies, and Qué es el cine moderno?) with A Secret Cinema forthcoming from re: press in 2013, as well as several thousand articles and reviews. He is Co-Editor of the on-line film journal LOLA and the book Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia (British Film Institute, 2003).