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Film International - Volume 4, Issue 3, 2006
Volume 4, Issue 3, 2006
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Film Scratches: Notes from the fringe
By Liza PalmerFilm International invites film-makers and other related media artists to submit works particularly those that do not achieve mainstream distribution for consideration and possible review in this column. Please direct all (NTSC, VHS or any DVD format) submissions to: Liza Palmer, Review Section Editor, Film International, c/o University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5616, USA. For more information or to suggest topics for future Film Scratches, e-mail Liza at palmerluncw.edu.
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The Last Movie and the critique of imperialism
More LessThe story of The Last Movie (1971) has become one of the abiding legends of the New Hollywood that brief flowering of politically and culturally radical film-making that blossomed with the decline of the traditional movie mass audience in the mid-1960s and withered with the arrival of the big-budget blockbuster in the mid-1970s.
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The skull beneath the skin: Patrice Chreau and Son Frre
By Robin WoodThe anxiety we carry within us, all our broken dreams, the inexplicable cruelty, the fear of death, the painful insight into our earthly condition, have worn out our hope of a divine salvation. The cries of our faith and doubt against the darkness and the silence are terrible proofs of our loneliness and fear. Do you think it's like that? (Bibi Andersson reading from an (unidentified) book in Bergman's Persona)
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Forgotten roots of Japanimation: In praise of shadows
By Jasper SharpThere cannot be many by now who are not acquainted with the term anime. If so, it is certainly not for a lack of exposure to what can now be seen as Japan's top pop-cultural export.
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Brokeback Mountain
More LessAnnie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain is amazing: detailed, observant, naturalistic and smart, it is a story about men and land and love and society in Wyoming, a state of mountains and valleys, greenlands and deserts.
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Menstrual Monsters
Authors: Martin Barker, Ernest Mathijs and Xavier MendikI think it is definitely possible to make feminist horror movies and I think we have proven that with all three Ginger Snaps films. (Paula Devonshire, producer of Ginger Snaps: Unleashed and Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning)
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Menstrual meanings: Brett Sullivan discusses werewolves, hormonal horror & the Ginger Snaps audience research project
More LessAs the accompanying article indicates, the Ginger Snaps trilogy offers some intriguing insights into the ways in which viewers construct multiple meanings and modes of identification from the patterns contained within the contemporary horror film.
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Book Reviews
Alphaville, Chris Darke, (2005) London: I.B. Tauris, 114 pp., ISBN 1850439869 (pbk), 9.99. ISBN 1845112180 (hbk), 25.00
Black Narcissus (Turner Classic Movie/British Film Guide) Sarah Street, (2005) London: I.B. Tauris, 128 pp., ISBN 1845110463 (pbk), 14.95
The Red Shoes (Turner Classic Movie/British Film Guide) Mark Connelly, (2005) London: I.B. Tauris, 128 pp., ISBN 1845110714 (pbk), 14.95
Beating the Devil: The Making of Night of the Demon Tony Earnshaw, (2005) Sheffield: Tomahawk Press, 127 pp., ISBN 095319261X (pbk), 25.00
American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film: From 1492 to Three Kings, Andrew Pepper and Trevor McCrisken, (2005) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 224 pp., ISBN 0748614907 (pbk), 16.99
Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers Michael Berry, (2005) New York: Columbia University Press, 568 pp., ISBN 0231133316 (pbk), 24.50, ISBN 0231133308 (hbk), 64.50
The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film, Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple and Patrick Russell (eds), (2004)
The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon (19001913) United Kingdom
Contemporary Cinema of Latin America: Ten Key Films Deborah Shaw, (2003) New York: Continuum, 206 pp., ISBN 0826414850 (pbk), 27.95
This Terrible Business Has Been Good To Me Normal Jewison, (2005) New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin's Press, 304 pp., ISBN 0312328680 (hbk), 25.95
Film & Community in Britain & France: From La Rgle du jeu to Room at the Top Margaret Butler, (2004) London: I.B. Tauris, 224 pp., ISBN 1860649556 (pbk), 24.50, ISBN 1860649548 (hbk), 65.00
Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging David Bordwell, (2005) Berkeley: University of California Press, 327 pp., ISBN 0520241975 (pbk), 24.95
Appraising Moving Images: Assessing the Archival and Monetary Value of Film and Video Records Sam Kula, (2003) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 155 pp., ISBN 0810843684 (hbk), 43.00
Spaces in European Cinema, Myrto Konstantarakos (ed.), (1999) Exeter: Intellect, 188 pp., ISBN 1841500046 (pbk), 24.95
Past and Present: National Identity & the British Historical Film James Chapman, (2005) New York: I.B. Tauris, 400 pp., ISBN 1850438072 (hbk), 79.50. ISBN 1850438080 (pbk), 29.50
European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood, Thomas Elsaesser, (2005) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 563 pp., ISBN 9053566023 (hbk), 80.50, ISBN 9053565949 (pbk), 32.50
European Identity in Cinema, Wendy Everett, (ed.), (2005) Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 119 pp., ISBN 1841509167 (pbk), 29.95
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Film Festivals
More LessReport on Film South Asia '05 in Kathmandu, Nepal, and a snapshot of South Asian documentary cinema
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Snow and fantasy in Yubari
More LessIn February, a small town on the mountains of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, experiences a flow of film people from Tokyo and foreign countries taking the train to their town. It is time to enjoy five days of fantasy, horror, comedy, musical, animation and other films that can be loosely categorized as fantastic. Film International's Eija Niskanen jointed the fun.
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 22 (2024)
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Volume 21 (2023)
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Volume 20 (2022)
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Volume 19 (2021)
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Volume 18 (2020)
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Volume 17 (2019)
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Volume 16 (2018)
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Volume 15 (2017)
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Volume 14 (2016)
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Volume 13 (2015)
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Volume 12 (2014)
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Volume 11 (2013)
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Volume 10 (2012)
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Volume 9 (2011 - 2012)
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Volume 8 (2010)
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Volume 7 (2009)
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Volume 6 (2008)
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Volume 5 (2007)
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Volume 4 (2006)
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Volume 3 (2005)
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Volume 2 (2004)
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Volume 1 (2003)
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