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Get PDFThis issue of CINEJ focuses on issues ranging from Malian Cinema, Islam in Turkish cinema, Bergman, Mulholland Drive and sound in early Hollywood cinema
Seeking God in Early Bergman: The Cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light
Get PDFThe films of Ingmar Bergman have oftentimes been considered depressing and pessimistic. Nevertheless, there is enough material to claim that this is not the case. Two of his early pieces, Det sjunde inseglet/The Seventh Seal (1957) and Nattvardsgästerna/Winter Light (1963) are two of these examples. Both films include similar protagonists who are troubled by their lack or questioning of faith, who in the end find a way out of their angst with the help of secondary characters in the films
To Find Is To Choose, To Choose Is To Create: Culture(s) in Cinematic and Architectural Space(s)
Get PDFIn Wikipedia, which is the symbol of global and virtual source in today’s research culture, culture is defined in three different ways: It is the excellence of taste in fine arts and humanities; an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning; and, the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group. With another generalization, culture is the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; moreover, it is the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences
Memory, Identity and Desire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
Get PDFThis is a reading of David Mulholland Drive through psychoanalytic approach of Lacan from the perspective of formation of fantasy and shifting identities. Lynch constructs his films consciously choosing his themes from the sub(versive/conscious) side of human mind. Previous attempts to read Lynch\u27s films are fixed around the idea that Lynch is using film genres to create postmodern pastiches. Mulholland Drive has been analyzed several times from different approaches ranging from gender (Love, 2004), narratology (Lentzner, 2005; McGowan, 2004; Cook, 2011). Elements of film noir, musical, caper films can be identified in Lynch’s films. This detailed textual analysis intends to rationalize Lynch’s narrative structure through Lacanian terms in reference to Zizekian terminology
Necessary Fictions: From Cinéma vérité to Ciné, ma vérité(s)
Get PDFDespite critical reconceptualisations of reenactment in theory and practice beginning in the 1980s, such scholarship has confined reenactment to a process that rests solely on substitution, actors, and actor reenactment. This article examines reenactment in which actual persons reenact their own pasts and memories in the context of contemporary Iranian cinema to bring about an embodied historiography. This collaboration between social actors and filmmakers shifts the focus from questions of substitution to questions of presence and proximity in representations of the past and personal memory. This article explores these questions of presence, proximity, and reenactment as a distinct mode of audiovisual autobiography through a reading of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film Bread and Flower (1996) as a case study
Secrets, Trauma, and the Memory Market (or the return of the repressed in recent Argentine post-dictatorship cultural production)
Get PDFSince the end of the last Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983), a number of feature-length films have engaged in the public debate over the legacies of state terrorism. El secreto de sus ojos (2009), Argentina\u27s most recent Oscar winner, is the latest to do so, exploring the effects of more than a decade of impunity on those who lost their loved ones. Suggesting that restoration of a justice system that works can lead to the restoration of full civic engagement in a healthy body politic, the film raises important questions about citizenship and belonging in a post-national era. This essay explores the film\u27s phenomenal success in the global memory market to illuminate what remains at stake in contemporary narratives of reconciliation
Istanbul Crossroads Establishing Mutual Understanding and Inter-Cultural Dialog through Images
Get PDFTheir Slogan is “Young Entrepreneurs Hand by Hand with Young Film Directors”. The goal of “JCI Istanbul Crossroads” project with Junior Chamber International Istanbul is to celebrate the social, religious and cultural diversities rather than using them as a reason for conflict. This article aims to outline how short films made by young filmmakers around the world reflect and articulate the issues surrounding identities and diversity
Gender and Identity at Boarding Schools: Outcast Teachers in Maedchen in Uniform (1958) vs Loving Annabelle (2006)
Get PDF“Loving Annabelle”, a US film released in 2006, tells the story of a boarding school student who falls in love with her teacher. The movie is based on “Maedchen in Uniform”, a German movie released in 1958. This paper aims at analyzing the perception of love, and in particular lesbian love, over the course of a century by dealing with the comparison between the two movies. What has changed and what keeps a similar position in terms of severe rules in the context of the boarding school environment, religion, physical and platonic love? What roles do the family and the teachers play? The teacher becomes an outcast in both movies, yet her character contains a dual and ambivalent role: lover and mother-figure at the same time. Is the microcosm of a boarding school representative for the developments registered in lesbian lives over the past decades and if so, at which extent? Does the movie as a medium reflect the shift in an appropriate manner
Across Cultural and National Borders: Diasporic Chinese Family in Pushing Hands
Get PDFBeing embedded in the interdisciplinary area of media and culture studies, this articlel explores the family melodrama in transnational Chinese cinema drawing upon theoretical discussions with regard to the historical emergence of melodrama in correspondence to, as Th. Elsaesser says, “periods of intense social and ideological crisis”. While serving as a reflection on the tension between tradition and modernity displayed in the domestic domain, Ang Lee’s Chinese-characterized family melodrama also illustrates the differences between Chinese and Hollywood family melodrama. Linked to the ongoing debate about “melodrama as a cross-cultural form”, in the process of analyzing the film text, our perceptions of generic dislocation or displacement, transcultural entanglements and globalization in light of contemporary cultural practices will be furthermore complicated.
The Relation between Hollywood and the New Threat Perception of the USA after the End of the Cold War from the Perspective of Postmodernism
Get PDFAfter the end of Cold War, the USA became the only super power and there was no threat perception from outside, in other words no enemy anymore. In fact, throughout history the USA faced different threats, that is to say, enemies. The terrorist events experienced in America after the end of Cold War brought about that the new enemy was Middle Easterners. Accordingly, the place of cinema in postmodernism is very significant as it becomes the reflection of the zeitgeist and the mindset of the era in which the film is shot