Michael Goddard – University of Salford

Michael Goddard is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Salford. He has published widely on Polish and international cinema and visual culture as well as cultural theory. He is currently completing a book on the cinema of Raul Ruiz. Most recently, his research focuses on contemporary Polish visual and popular culture and urban space, as well as on subversive media and popular practices in both Eastern and Western Europe, particularly in the 1970s. For a full list of Michael Goddard’s... [More]

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Saragossa Manuscript, now restored to its original three hour version, would seem like an unlikely candidate for the international cult interest it has sustained. Directed by Wojciech Has, a director little known outside Poland, the film adapts the Baroque novel of the same name  by the eccentric Polish writer, amateur ethnologist and traveler, Count Jan Potocki. It may seen surprising that such a film would engage the interest not only of Martin Scorcese but also of Jerry Garcia, the lead singer... [More]