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New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film - Volume 8, Issue 1, 2010
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2010
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The rhetoric of the transnational: interpretation and identity in Gla and Temur Babluani's L'Hritage/Legacy (2006)
By Neil ArcherThe Franco-Georgian film L'Hritage/Legacy (2006), which focuses on a group of French tourists travelling through Georgia, exemplifies both in its content and in its production circumstances qualities frequently regarded as transnational. Recognized as having an increasingly vital currency in contemporary cinema, with its emphasis on the movement of people and capital across borders, the transnational nevertheless remains a disputed category. In Legacy, an idea of the transnational in terms of the encounter between cultures is explored and questioned. Focusing on interpretation and intelligibility as a problem, the film seeks to move beyond the touristic binaries of the travel film, using the encounter with the foreign other as a form of rhetoric. Playing with the gaps in comprehension for its (mainly) Western viewers, the film therefore brings into play the unstable, transitional space in between cultural identities. In this sense, the film inscribes its own resistance to categorization within national cinema terms.
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Revisiting the realism of the cosmetics of hunger: Cidade de Deus and nibus 174
Authors: Felicia Chan and Valentina VitaliThis article attempts to disentangle the seemingly contradictory set of terms of realism and sensationalism that characterize the marketing and reception of Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund's Cidade de Deus/City of God (2002). These terms, we contend, may be unpacked by analysing not so much what the film presents, but how it presents it and what it does not, and asking how a film's mode of address enables audiences to draw pleasure from images, the referent of which they understand to be unpleasurable. We compare the film with another one released in the same year, Jos Padilha's nibus 174/Bus 174, which addresses a similar subject from a different perspective, one that is unwilling to absolve the act of looking from the actions of that which is being looked at. In exploring the relationship of the films to the legal space of the Brazilian state, the article attempts to reconsider the implications of Cidade de Deus as a moment in the cultural and political economies of the international film circuit.
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Better Things (Duane Hopkins, 2008) and new British realism
More LessThis article uses Duane Hopkins's Better Things (2008) as a point of entry for a discussion of contemporary British realist cinema. An analysis of the textual and philosophical shifts that have occurred within this mode in the last decade is augmented by close readings of Hopkins's film. In addition, the films of Ken Loach are also utilized as a means of contrast. I argue that the subordination of Loach's aesthetic and formal strategies towards an explicit focus on socio-political themes represents a fundamental and important point of distinction for the new British realist directors. The likes of Hopkins, Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay (amongst others) can be seen to adopt an approach that places a greater emphasis on the poetic potentials of realist imagery at the expense of social-political didacticism; this encourages a closer analysis of the mode on the basis of its aesthetic and formal constitution. To this end, I argue that contemporary British realism can and should be understood alongside other realist movements from across the globe, highlighting the potential for a renewed appraisal of realism outside the narrow confines of national cinema.
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Welcome to Panmunjeom: encounters with the north in contemporary South Korean cinema
By Jake BevanThis article examines how the conflict between North and South Korea has been represented in contemporary South Korean films. Through an analysis of films that depict the current political climate, as well as those that revisit the events of the Korean War, the article argues that film-makers are turning away from the rhetoric of the Cold War and expressing a desire for peaceful reunification, as well as demonstrating how the relaxation of censorship and the recent successes of South Korean cinema have provided an environment in which this debate can take place.
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Reviews
Authors: Mara Donapetry, Tiago de Luca, Elhum Shakerifar and Sabine MllerVisions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean, Flavia Laviosa (Ed.) (2010) New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-61736-0 (hbk), 85
David Lynch: Interviews, Richard A. Barney (Ed.) (2009) Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 274 pp., ISBN 978-1-60473-37-5 (pbk), 22
The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture, Belinda Smaill (2010) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 208 pp., ISBN 987-0-230-23751-3 (hbk), 50.00
After the Avant-Garde: Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film, Randall Halle and Reinhild Steingrver (Eds) (2008) Rochester, New York: Camden House, 361 pp., ISBN 978-1-57113-365-6 (hbk), 45
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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 (2020)
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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 8 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 7 (2009)
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Volume 6 (2008 - 2009)
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Volume 5 (2007)
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