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CineAction articles from June 2001
An academic journal that examines film from a variety of viewpoints, with each issue focused on a central theme. Publishes scholarly articles on film theory, plus interviews with filmmakers, film reviews, book reviews, and reports from international film
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CineAction archives from June 2001
SHIFTING NARRATIVES.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... When Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan were released in 1998, the popular response was overwhelmingly in favor of the latter film over the former. Much of the enthusiastic discussion was directed at the...
"SO WHERE ARE YOU?".(analysis of the film "Memento")(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... On Memento, Memory, and the Sincerity of Self-Deception
"So where are you?"
Leonard Shelby/Guy Pearce says as he begins his voice-over narration in the first of many black and white sequences in Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000). This...
FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI.(analysis of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's film)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Flowers of Shanghai has been widely acclaimed as Hou Hsiao-Hsien's masterpiece to date; it appeared in the majority of critics' lists of the "Ten Best Films of the '90s", frequently in top place; along with Hou's other dozen-or-so films, it...
DVD the Shift to Film's New Modernity.
June 22, 2001... In December 2000, the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts (GCPA), a research and development centre at the University of Wales, Bangor, began a research project in local schools using a set of DVD players. Not personal-computer based DVD...
Narration and Focalisation in Wings of Desire.
June 22, 2001... Edward Branigan's book Narrative Comprehension and Film (1992) illustrates in its very title a major development that has taken place in the study of narrative film over the last two decades: a move away from a text-based structural analysis...
Narrative and Spectacle in Gladiator.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Does Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) provide a critique of spectacle? Such a question may appear odd insofar as the film's most engaging moments are undoubtedly those which are spectacular--the opening battle scene and the scenes of...
THEY KILL FOR LOVE.(erotic thriller as a film genre)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Defining the Erotic Thriller as a Film Genre
Within the last decade or so, a number of films have appeared in which desire and death interpenetrate, as is often indicated by two-word titles linking a sexy adjective with a deadly noun, or...
LAKE EFFECTS.(actress Veronica Lake)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... A "Slowly Turning Narrative"
SULLIVAN: I want this picture to be a document. I want to hold a mirror up to life. I want this to be a picture of dignity--a true canvas of the suffering of humanity.
LEBRAND: But with a little sex.
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