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From:Film History (Vol. 21, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper addresses some of the practical and aesthetic decisions made during the restoration of a number of Danish silent films, including whether or not to retain the authenticity of a specific film print (in the...
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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:CineActionSOME NOTES ON THE HYBRIDIZATION OF THE 'HEROIC WARRIOR' GENRE With a record 356 films being screened over a 10 day period, the Toronto International Film Festival this anniversary year presented an overwhelming array...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAttempts to reinsert authentic portrayals of Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans into contemporary films have had varying degrees of success. Kevin Costner's 'Dances With Wolves' shows Indian...
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-Reviewed... translations of translations of translations.... Every text is unique and at the same time it is the translation of another text.... Every translation up to a certain point is an invention and as such constitutes a...
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From:Film History (Vol. 21, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewed'Natural colour' was the term coined for genuine colour photography to separate it from colouring or 'painting' monochrome images, hence the use of the contrasting term 'unnatural'. The intention of this paper is to...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 89, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWE ARE ALL painfully aware of the dominant cinematic representations of Native women--the princess, the sexualized maiden, the work drudge (sq**w). Following a hundred years of cinematic tropes, films like Avatar (2009)...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 35, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedWhen Selma Baccur released Fatma 75, her first, feature film and the first documentary in Tunisia by a woman, in 1975, two vital manifestoes on film in the Third Work and in the Arab world had already appeared a few...
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From:International Journal of Instructional Media (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper the researcher attempts to introduce the level of physical and verbal violence that aimed, intentionally or unintentionally, at women (gender) and Alsa'ayda (class). The paper argues that Egyptian films...
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From:Journal of Film and Video (Vol. 67, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAnd tomorrow? Tomorrow will be the time of completely portable colorvideo, video editing, and instant replay ("instant feedback"). Which is to say, the time of the joint dream of Vertov and Flaherty, of a mechanical...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 35, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedAs Francois Niney has pointed out. "Entre les murs (2008) de Laurent Cantet, paradocumentaire joue par les interesses reconstituant la realise' d'une classe de college" (11), served to underscore the complex ways in...
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From:Style (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMeet Me in St. Louis, produced by Arthur Freed's musical unit at MGM in 1944, offers an outstanding example of how color could serve the demands of classical filmmaking. The film exhibits an innovative confidence in the...
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From:Film History (Vol. 21, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe essay confronts the issue of the relationship between silent film colour and its audience during the 'second period' of early cinema (approximately 1909 to 1917) by analyzing the practice of producing multiple...
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedIn a special newspaper supplement announcing the 1948 opening of New York's television station WPIX, the New York Daily News, which owned the new unaffiliated station, reported WPIX's pledge to bring New Yorkers the...
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From:Metro Magazine (Vol. 146, Issue 147) Peer-ReviewedWhile this year's Melbourne International Film Festival jettisoned its beatific Asian poster children in favour of cartoon ockers in front of the Hills Hoist, it contained the usual massive number of films, so the Asian...
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From:Film History (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the years immediately following World War II, Europe faced a new geopolitical constellation. The war fundamentally transformed the international diplomatic position of Czechoslovakia as a small nation on the border...
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From:Velvet Light Trap (Issue 61) Peer-ReviewedWhile subjected peoples cannot readily control what emanates from the dominant culture, they do determine to varying extents what they absorb into their own, and what they use it for. --Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial...
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From:Film History (Vol. 21, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedOne of the most fascinating (yet misunderstood and overlooked) aspects of silent cinema history is that of colour technology and aesthetics. Like early sound, colour was incorporated with the black-and-white image...
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From:Film Criticism (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJohn Huston's 'Prizzi's Honor' is a hybrid of gangster film, film noir, and screwball comedy that reflected anxiety about the power of women in the 1980s. Gangster films traditionally ignore the significance of marriage,...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 35, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Malgre une recente revolution technologique qui a relativise les couts de production, une rapide observation des films d'Afrique francophone ainsi que des travaux qui y sont consacre's autorise au moins...