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CineAction articles from March 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 March 2001
STAR IMAGE ICON.
March 22, 2001... We have a longstanding interest in and commitment to the study of star images STAR and the construction of a persona both on and off screen. With Richard Dyer's Stars (bfi, London, 1979) a serious contemplation of stars was initiated, but the...
HAWKE ASCENDING.(actor Ethan Hawke)
March 22, 2001... Icon, image, star: Ethan Hawke refuses to slip naturally into any of these categories. Certainly not an icon, which suggests something fixed and permanent, graven in stone or metal, and Hawke, although he is 'always the same' (as a friend one...
FRANK AND FEARLESS.(photographing actress Joan Crawford by photojournalist Eve Arnold)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... THE EVE ARNOLD-JOAN CRAWFORD SESSIONS
'...love and eternal trust always'
-from Joan to Eve, Eve Arnold: In Retrospect
Eve Arnold photographed Joan Crawford in 1959 in Los Angles and New York City, and the results were intended to...
THE CLASSICAL APPEAL OF ANTHONY HOPKINS.(actor)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... PLAYING FATHERS AND MONSTERS
Anthony Hopkins is now sixty-three years old and has for the last decade enjoyed a cult popularity and iconic status transcending age and gender. Given his remarkable screen charisma, it is worth considering...
HIGH CLASS WHORE.(actress Hedy Lamarr)
March 22, 2001... HEDY LAMARR'S STAR IMAGE IN HOLLYWOOD
Although I have spent over twenty years writing about German-speaking film emigres who went to Hollywood after 1933, due to the anti-Semitic campaigns of the Nazis, Hedy Lamarr was for me not much more...
I WONDER WHATEVER BECAME OF ME?(examination of the Marx Brothers and their work)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... A NOTE ON THE MARX BROTHERS
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the...
JIM CARREY.(actor)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... THE KING OF EMBARRASSMENT
Fun houses are sociologically provocative because they are not necessarily funny. Halls of distorting mirrors are methodologically appealing sites for an inquiry into emotional process. What does it take to make...
THE MAN IN THE PINK SHIRT.(actor Hugh Grant and British masculinity)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... HUGH GRANT AND THE DILEMMA OF BRITISH MASCULINITY
"The New Gary Grant?" First, a little Hugh-speak:
CHARLES: "Ehm, look. Sorry, sorry. I just, ehm, well, this is a very stupid question and-particularly in view of our recent shopping...
JOAN FONTAINE'S HEIRESS.(actress, interpretation of "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt")(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2001... STAR IN TRANSITION
The following is taken from an essay on Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (tentatively titled "Vindication of an Heiress") which examines the film in terms of (among other things) its use of Brechtian narrative strategies...
LETTERS.
March 22, 2001... NATIONALISM AND THE ZIZEK SYNDROME: MORE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
While I mostly agree with Robin Wood's praise of Beautiful People (Jasmin Dizdar, 1999), which I also find to be a very rich and complex, yet oddly refreshing comedy about the...