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Cinema Studies vs. Cultural Studies?

2008-07-24 11:01:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
 
...cultural mythmaking. Rather than analyze the formal properties of film, I tend to tease out literary themes, recognize mythopoetic and psychological symbols, or rally behind sociopolitical causes with which I feel comfortably aligned. In my best Harvey Fierstein voice: " Is that so wrong That being said, I have nothing but respect for film...
 
Tags: promote film studies, film studies, film, film theorists raise, film reaction, cultural studies, film aesthetics, apichatpong film, film theory
 
 
 
 
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Discuss: Is Britney Spears Really the "Most Important Cultural Figure in America?"

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2008-04-17 00:00:00 by Kim Voynar in Cinematical
...cultural figure in America Maybe in Pressman's house, Britney is a frequent topic of dinner conversation, but she's certainly not in mine. If we're not talking to the kids about their current obsessions (Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, My Little Pony and Twilight ), we're talking about how to best get our fledging organic garden going or mulling over the...
 
Tags: britney spears, britney, britney spears-along, cultural figure, america, dinner conversation, pressman, matt pressman ponders, president bush-the
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?

2008-08-20 00:29:29 by John in SF Signal
 
...cultural change. For this week's Mind Meld, we turned to the anthology's editor and authors, as well as a host of others, to answer the following question about changing the science fiction field itself Q: Science fiction, some say, is all about fostering change. But if you could change any aspect of the science fiction field itself -...
 
Tags: science fiction, publish, publish science fiction, love, love science fiction, science fiction ideas, writer, science fiction writer, fiction
 
 
 
 
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Questions of Third Cinema edited by Jim Pines and Paul Willemen

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2008-03-12 22:40:25 by Editor in Film Fest Journal
...cultural imperative: "Each of them refused to oppose a simplistic notion of national identity or of cultural authenticity to the values of colonial or imperial predators. Instead, they started from a recognition of the many-layeredness of their own cultural-historical formations, with each layer being shaped by complex connections between...
 
Tags: cinema, narrative, cinema narrative, cinema functions, american cinema, world peoples, world, examines, cinema question
 
 
 
 
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Andrzej Wajda: An Introduction

2008-07-31 15:28:41 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
...Cultural Centre in Hammersmith (May 24) - this is the slightly revised POSK version. Ive added release dates and Polish original titles to reflect Kinoblogs house style, but otherwise this is pretty much as it was performed CLIP Ashes and Diamonds (the burning shot glasses scene That was, of course, one of the pivotal scenes of Ashes and...
 
Tags: polish film history, polish film, history, countrys history, national history, polish art history, polish film association, polish, polish names
 
 
 
 
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'Not to wear tank tops, strapless tops or very short pants'

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2008-04-12 10:06:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...cultural promotion campaigns should make use of celebrities to convey their messages The enlistment of the RS Music quartet follows the appointment of three young actresses, Benz Pornchita, Noon Woranut and Aef Taksaon as deputy spokeswomen for the Ministry of Culture Critics say the enlistment of high-profile celebrities to act as cultural...
 
Tags: thai, thai artists, thai culture, culture ministry, ministry, culture, girly berry girls, girly berry, tops
 
 
 
 
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A Švankmajer timeline

2007-12-02 21:16:41 by michael in Kinoblog
 
...cultural thaw in the Soviet Union, he explores the work of other leading Surrealists, including Luis Buñuel, Max Ernst and Joan Miró. His graduation production, King Stag by Carlo Gozzi, uses a combination of puppets, live actors and actors dressed as puppets - a technique revived in the films The Last Trick ( Poslední trik pana...
 
Tags: czech republic joins, czech republic, czech, czech tour guide, czech puppet theatre, official czech entry, original czech films, czech artists, czech surrealist activities
 
 
 
 
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Eros Plus Masscre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema by David Desser

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2007-11-05 20:12:13 by Editor in Film Fest Journal
...cultural particularity that hews closer in spirit to the idealized portrait of sacrificing, indomitable, marginalized women in Kenji Mizoguchi's cinema than to the ideological pursuit of equal rights. Observing the role of sexuality as a means of empowerment and liberation in the films of Shohei Imamura ( The Insect Woman and Intentions of...
 
Tags: japanese, desser, japanese postwar identity, david desser examines, wave, desser examines, movement, wave movement, wave cinema
 
 
 
 
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Richness, Intensity and Gesture: An Interview with Adrian Martin

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2008-01-20 18:50:00 by girish in girish
...cultural/intellectual spheres the centres or capitols of film-thought and film-discourse were taken to be only France, USA, to an extent UK And it didnt matter how rich or alive the film-culture scene was in your local scene if you werent from, or in, one of those centres, you simply didnt exist on the world stage as a critic. (I know it well...
 
Tags: australian film critic, film critic, film culture, culture, stop-start history, stop, history, film history, practice