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The National Cinema Problem

2007-11-29 06:55:00 by Chris Cagle in Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
 
...approaches to national cinema, and in drawing on and complicating the notion of cultural imperialism. What they did not do was really grapple with textual approaches to national cinema itself. Certain scholars have used specific national-cinema case studies to illuminate these issues ( New German Cinema , say, or Pierre Sorlin's overlooked...
 
Tags: national cinema, national cinema-skeptics, national cinema historiography, approaches, films, films construct, textual approaches, valuable theoretical discussions, study
 
 
 
 
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CFP: Revisiting Film Melodrama

2008-05-19 10:24:00 by Chris Cagle in Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
 
...approaches ranging from auteurist perspectives, readings as a feminist sub-genre to diachronic studies, francophone research on the melodrama genre has been very fragmentary and predominantly thematic. The study of melodramas stylistic construction has not been taken up, several isolated initiatives notwithstanding. This situation to some...
 
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DAY 16: Empire of the Sun (1987)

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2007-08-16 18:33:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...approaches anything supernatural. What follows next is a fantastic sequence wherein Jamie stumbles upon a crashed airplane, climbs into the cockpit and pretends that he is engaged in air-to-air combat with the "enemy": namely, his glider which the wind whips and whirls around him in remarkably well-orchestrated manner (almost as if guided by...
 
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DAY 11: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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2007-08-11 22:43:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...approaches the ground he whispers: Dont crash, please. But, alas, both Elliott and E.T. crash-land in a very clumsy manner. Thus, Spielberg ends the sequence with a laugh After the communicator operates for several hours, and E.T.s family still hasnt returned, E.T. touches his heart and says the word he learned earlier for pain (Ouch. )...
 
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CINEMATIC EXPRESSIONS OF THE ANIMAGuy Maddin's The Heart of the World (2000)

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2008-03-25 11:56:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
 
...approaches are fraught with peril and neitherin Maddin's filmserve to save the heart of the world. One rages forward with cold-hearted progress; the other performs miracles through reverse footage. One of my favorite images is the horror on Nikolai's face when he witnesses Osip's resurrected corpses. In a way, their opposing approaches negate...
 
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COMPLICATED SPACESThe Evening Class Interview With Heinz Emigholz, Pt. One

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2008-04-18 22:56:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...approaches through the medium of film Emigholz: I've given a lot of thought to the so-called language of film and the logic of film. There are certain semiotic approaches that move in that field and make up a language or logic of filmic imagery; but, I wouldn't use these words. I would always talk about the poetics of film, the poetics of...
 
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Ten Cinematic Lessons For Wesley Snipes While Hes Serving Jail Time

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2008-04-25 16:54:44 by Josh Horowitz in MTV Movies Blog
...approaches you whilst in the slammer DO NOT engage him. Hes angry. In fact, come to think of itdo not approach Ed Harris anywhere in any setting. Hes always angry 2) The Shawshank Redemption Lesson: Your tax problems may have landed you in prison, but you can make your inventive approach to paying (or not paying) the government work for you....
 
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Film International Special Issue on Film Festivals (Vol. 6, Issue 4)

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2008-10-28 01:42:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...approaches cinema on a meta-national level and focuses on the dynamics of transnationalism in cinema; she has special interest in issues related to cinema at the periphery. She has published extensively on international and transnational film art and industry, including Budding Channels of Peripheral Cinema: The Long Tail of Global Film...
 
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11/10: Sink Or Swim

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2008-11-10 21:52:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...approaches him by discussing a book he wrote, which posited that the goddesses Aphrodite and Demeter, representing romantic love and motherhood, were once aspects of a single feminine diety, who was split in two because of men's discomfort with the dual nature of women. Friedrich cleverly illustrates this essay by alternating between pieces...
 
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