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It Is a Man\u27s World: Romantic Relief In The Hollywood Blockbuster
Get PDFThe Hollywood action blockbuster has been known to benefit from conventions that assure its success at the box-office. Since these films are often identified with male genres, they feature male protagonists, causing them to mostly appeal to male audiences. Nevertheless, to attract female spectators as well, blockbusters incorporate female characters and what I like to call “romantic relief” into their narrative. Moments of romantic relief allow both the characters in the film and the audience to forget about the main action of the film briefly. These, however, fail to change the storyline in any significant way. This article largely focuses on romantic relief and its manifestation in such films as Avatar, Armageddon, Transformers and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Technology and the Turkish Mind: Internet Animation as Counter Culture in Turkey
Get PDFThis paper is an attempt in interpreting the relationship between the adoption of new communications technologies such as the internet and how they are transformed and used in expression of a resisting cultural identity through content creation, namely internet flash animation in Turkey. The study discusses the Turkish adaptation of media of communication as social practice and as a means of social resistance and cultural expression. Its main focus is on internet use and especially around the use of humorous animated stories on the web
‘Not A Terrorist’: The Representational Alternative of Reality TV in All-American Muslim
Get PDFThe reality TV show All-American Muslim depicts the lives of five Muslim families of Lebanese descent in Dearborn. Although the project was conceived as mainstream entertainment and not as a political statement, it led to a controversy over the representation of ‘true’ Muslims. Indeed the interest of the show lies in the fact that it offers its participants an opportunity to express themselves in an otherwise hostile media environment. The reality TV format seems particularly apt at providing a different vision of American Muslim, a vision clashing with images usually conveyed by TV news and Hollywood films. The show proposes a radical shift in the representational paradigm by making the Muslim families typical representatives of the U.S.A
Recurrence: A Filmosophic Re-thinking of A Long Story/ Uzun Hikaye
Get PDFThis study will re-think A Long Story under the guidance of Daniel Frampton’s perspective of “filmosophy” which theorises film as a ‘being’ independent from any external effect, and acknowledges that film has a ‘mind’ and is ‘able to think’ in its own way. To be clear on re-thinking how A Long Story ‘thinks’ of the concept of ‘recurrence’ in its dramatic structure, this study first will give a detailed explanation of “filmosophy”. Then, it will elaborate the particular ‘intentions’ and ‘choices’ that the film is responsible of whilst constructing itself upon the idea of ‘recurrence’. Finally, this study will focus on a particular scene and explain its significance on locating ‘recurrence’ as the ‘whole knowledge’ the film keeps in mind
Editorial
Get PDFThis issue of CINEJ focuses on a varity of topics: American tourism to Mexico and 1950s Hollywood film, cinematic pedagogy of Gilles Deleuze and Manoel de Oliveira, United Arab Emirates building a national cinema, crowdfunding in documentaries, flying scenes in Steven Spielberg\u27s films, Rudaali in film narrative, a brief history of motorcycle in cinema, romantic relief in the Hollywood Blockbuster, filmosphy of Turkish cinema and flash animation as a counter cultural tool
Books Received
Get PDFIn 2014 we have received a variety of books onc inema and media from these publishers: Bloomsbury Academic, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Continuum, Edinburgh University Press, Focal Press, Intellect, Paradigm, Peter Lang, Routledge, University of California Press, Wayne State University Press
Rudaali in Film Narrative: Looking Through the Feminist Lens
Get PDFKalpana Lajmi adapts Mahesweta Devi’s short story to highlight the plight of a woman in the system of exploitation and hunger. Amidst the never ending class struggle, that Devi has so effectively depicted, the struggle of gender becomes the issue of highlight for Lajmi. In poverty and prosperity she remains the same. In the search for the self, Lajmi tries to discover a language through which the subaltern may speak and in Rudaali it is the language of tears. Tears that have been eternally associated with the female become the unique language of the feminine to speak for themselves in Lajmi and Devi. In the cultural terrain where language of man is the norm Rudaali is an exception
Review of Japanese Horror Films and the Their American Remakes
No full textValerie Wee’s monograph on American remakes of Japanese supernatural horror films is a contribution to Routledge’s Advances in Film Studies series and examines a cluster of films made in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These are films which in their first incarnation were Japanese (such as Ringu) which were then remade by Hollywood (for example Ringu became The Ring)
Review of The Drift: Affect, Adaptation and New Perspectives on Fidelity
Get PDFJohn Hodgkins’ book revitalises the field of cinematic adaptation studies by drawing upon and developing concepts of affect, most notably theorised by scholars such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, contributing to a growing trend in wider areas of film scholarship where these concepts have been used to challenge normative ideas and methodologies
Review of Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh
Get PDFDevised and Directed by Mike Leigh is a compilation of sixteen articles that are clubbed into four themes. The book gives a candid review of Leigh’s creative work. This book is written in an effective style, which develops reader’s interest and motivates them to watch some of his remarkable films to know more about his story telling and film making techniques