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From:Artforum International (Vol. 57, Issue 6)"CAN A GENIUS BE UNTALENTED, TOO?" This, for John Waters, is the vital question posed by the films of Andy Milligan, the director behind a prolific streak of distinctively seedy exploitation vehicles. Over the past...
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From:Estudios Irlandeses - Journal of Irish Studies (Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedGiven the complex relationship that the cinematic landscape has enjoyed in Irish cinema it is, perhaps, surprising that it has taken so long for a film to contend not only with its visual impression but also its...
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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 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:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe present article examines the way Zakia Tahiri's film Number One (2009) foregrounds a renewed understanding of gender and gender relations in contemporary Morocco, especially in the wake of the New Family Code Reform...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn his article "Aesthetics, Opera, and Alterity in Herzog's Work" Jacob-Ivan Eidt analyses Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo. Eidt's analysis is executed in the context of opera, cinema, and aesthetics. Eidt argues...
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From:Cineaste (Vol. 36, Issue 4)We've come to that point in the history of Michelangelo Antonioni cinephilia, like the designations in Picasso, in which periods are being demarcated more than ever. It's a measure of the sheer...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 35, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedLe cinema selon Raul Ruiz se caracterise par sa puissance metamorphique. Medium magique, parfois chamanique, pour reprendre l'expression du cineaste chilien, qui "nous fait voyager dans un au-dela ou habitent les...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Premiering at the height of the global neo-noir craze, Oskar Roehler's Die Unberuhrbare is willfully out of the past. It renegotiates the classic noir's preoccupation with space and material culture,...
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From:CineActionWhile the majority of films made in the last few decades seem to have adopted a sesame street/mtv approach to editing and pacing let alone plot, there still remain a few filmmakers who aim their works at a mature...
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From:Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary HistoryPeer-ReviewedThis essay reconsiders the place of Louis Malle's films in the canon of post-Holocaust film. The essay places Malle's work in the context of contemporary French cinema and of other work by Malle in order to argue that...
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedIN RECENT YEARS, HISTORIANS OF AMERIcan cinema have devoted increasing attention to early film history, examining the particular qualities of the medium prior to the many watersheds of the mid-teens: the establishment...
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedTHE ENTRY FOR MS. 45 (ABEL FERRARA, 1981) in Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide describes the film. as follows: "Tamerlis is raped twice, gets her `revenge' by murdering every male in sight. Well-made, violent...
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedJOHN ELLIS WRITES IN VISIBLE FICTIONS: "Cinema and TV contribute to [the] silent process of change that is ceaselessly taking place within the realm of ideology. These media ... do not reproduce ideology ... [but]...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 62, Issue 1)At the beginning of the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics in London, Kenneth Branagh appeared on stage in the character of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a famous British engineer who built the Great Western Railway...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 80, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedCharles Laughton is said to have described his 1955 directorial debut, The Night of the Hunter, which was to be the only film he ever directed, as "a nightmarish sort of Mother Goose tale." The narrative of this...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This article examines the production, content, and public reception of Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012) and Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012). The two Oscar-winning films are set within the context of the...
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From:Journal of Austrian Studies (Vol. 49, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedHugo Bettauer's 1922 satirical novel Die Stadt ohne Juden was not the first literary treatment depicting a Vienna without Jews. In 1900 Joseph Scheicher published Aus dem Jahre 1920: Ein Traum vom Landtags- und...