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From:CineAction (Issue 40)I first saw Gone with the Wind at the Regal Cinema, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, in August 1944. I was aged thirteen, the film five; the Western Allies were closing the Falaise Gap, the Poles trying to free...
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From:CineAction (Issue 42)AS HONG KONG PREPARES TO BECOME A SPECIAL Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, the city's filmmakers struggle to define and preserve its cultural identity. In the run-up to 1997, this historical...
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From:CineAction (Issue 45)Writing about the films of Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Seth Feldman had noted that his characters seem "to be asking not so much `Who am I'but `What part am I being called upon to play?" (1) The context here is a filmmaker of...
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From:CineAction (Issue 47)The topic for this issue arose initially from a sense of exasperation with what I've perceived as an increasingly homogenized and narrow range of `commercial product' emanating from our neighbour to the south. If this...
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From:CineAction (Issue 49)The film Margaret's Museum (Mort Ransen, 1995) is the end result of the lengthy and meandering evolution of literary texts by Sheldon Currie: beginning with a ballad written in 1962 ("The Ballad of Charlie Dave"), to...
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From:CineAction (Issue 48)That there were Hollywood influences upon the French New Wave has never been in doubt. Critical analysis and debate has tended to focus upon the early films such as Godard's Breathless (1959) and Truffaut's Shoot the...
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From:CineAction (Issue 52)"We were to consider ... some cases and senses ... in which to J.L. Austin, How to do things with Words, Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 12. In the Truffaut book, various reasons are proposed for the failure of...
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From:CineAction (Issue 48)`In the year 2000 we are grateful that we still have Grace Chang's songs to comfort us'. - Tsai Ming-Liang, postscript to The Hole. `And all over the world Strangers talk only about The weather.' - Tom Waits....
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere were science fiction movies in Japan before 1954, but that was the year science fiction became one of the dominant genres in Japanese film. It was less than ten years after the greatest scientific minds of the age...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIrma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996) centres on an aging French director's remake of Louis Feuillade's crime serial Les Vampires (1915). Matters are complicated, however, when the director, Rene Vidal (Jean Pierre Leaud),...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 2004, fifty-one documentaries obtained a theatrical release in France. This new record represents a measure of the success enjoyed by the wave of documentaries that has reached France's silver screens since the turn...
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From:Film Criticism (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPostcolonial studies have often examined the nature of visual representations of the female Arab and African "other" by Western artist, travelers, and writers. The publicity given nowadays in the French media to the...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"It's embarrassing to be solemn and treatise-like about Camp. I One runs the risk of having, oneself, produced a very inferior piece of Camp" (1)--these words by Susan Sontag immediately came to mind when colleague...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDEAR__, Our shared enthusiasm for To the Wonder puts us at odds with most of the world. Certainly the critical consensus stands against it. Have you read some of those reviews? What is it that we see in this film...
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From:Artforum International (Vol. 53, Issue 6)BETWEEN MAY '68 and the military-postindustrial complex, between Situationism and the Situation Room, the word situation may well appear depleted--a term that once held promises of utopian revolution now repurposed as...
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From:Velvet Light Trap (Issue 82) Peer-ReviewedAS AN ADDENDUM TO THIS ISSUE OF THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP, WE PRESENT SUMMARIES OF earlier articles from the journal that have focused on "dialogue(s)." MATTHEW CONNOLLY, NICHOLAS LAUREANO, CASEY LONG, ERICA MOULTON, and...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCe lieu sue la betise. Pue la canaillerie et la galanterie de bazar. Males el femelles s'y valent. Maupassant. La femme de Paul Jean-Luc Godard, theoricien de la difference sexuelle? La these peut choquer....
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn his article "Towards an Urban Narrative Layers Approach to Decipher the Language of City Films" Francois Penz investigates how film narratives may provide us with the perceptual tools to grasp complex urban...
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From:The AtlanticByline: James Parker Image credit: Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Aboard the Iron Man 4, a 70,000-ton pleasure barge churning between Miami, Key West, Nassau, and Cozumel, the old jackasses were...
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From:Post Script (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Jim McLaughlin died after a long battle with AIDS in 1995, while still at work on his lifelong study of Susan Sontag. The first time Jim met Sontag was after a lecture she had given in Chicago. Jim...