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CineAction articles from March 2007
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 2007
The state of the art: film and film criticism today.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... CineAction #72 represents a characteristic cross-section of approaches to and interests in current film studies. We have assembled papers that deal with specific films (Gigi and Once Upon a Time in America), and a British production company...
To our readers.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... The last year and a half has been a difficult time for the CineAction collective as we encountered some unexpected issues regarding our funding. One major result for us has been an inconsistency in our publishing timelines.
However, we are...
The new film studies and the decline of critique.
March 22, 2007... In his elegy for modernism, Farewell to an Idea, the art historian T.J. Clark registers his undying opposition to capitalism, a capitalism which, he argues, has today more than ever entered into the minutiae of everyday life as a determining...
The horror, Piglet, the horror: found footage, mash-ups, AMVs, the avant-garde, and the strange case of Apocalypse Pooh.
March 22, 2007...
The greatest moment in Tigger's screen career is in T. Graham's
presumably illegal short Apocalypse Pooh. soundtrack excerpts from
Apocalypse Now are laid over brilliantly edited excerpts from Disney's
Pooh films, and Tigger's bouncing...
Towards a theory of virtual pornography: a phenomenological introduction to Interactive Sex Simulators in the "naive realist" paradigm.
March 22, 2007...
To prefer the virtual being--at some remove--to the real being-close
up--is to take the shadow for the substance, to prefer the metaphor, the
clone to a substantial being who gets in your way, who is literally on
your hands, a flesh and...
Saving the image: scale and duration in contemporary art cinema.(Cover story)(Reprint)
March 22, 2007... About halfway through Frank Tashlin's 1957 film, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, the title character, played by Tony Randall, stops the action of the film to sarcastically comment on the virtues of television. The widescreen, Technicolor image...
Singing outside the frame: the female voice-off in Gigi (Minnelli, 1958).(movie director Vincente Minnelli)
March 22, 2007... Because of the deviation it offers from the standard rule of synchronization and the opportunity it affords for considering how cinema has made use of its off-screen space, the voice-off (along with the voice-over) tended to figure quite...
The risk of ambiguity: reconsidering Zavattini's film ethics.
March 22, 2007... Italian critic, theorist, and filmmaker Cesare Zavattini is perhaps best known for synthesizing the aims of neo-realism and for championing its everyday aesthetic. This notion of the everyday is for Zavattini a profoundly ethical notion that...
Actor, screenwriter, director, Chinese, American, woman, mother: who is Joan Chen?(Interview)
March 22, 2007... International star Joan Chen is a woman of extraordinary talent. She is a well-respected actress as well as a daring director. Joan started her acting career at the early age of fourteen in 1977, when China was in turmoil during the Cultural...
Notes on a radical tradition: subversive ideological applications in the Hammer horror films.(Hammer Studios)
March 22, 2007... The "Golden Age" of British cinema, which lasted from approximately 1945 to 1975, witnessed the evolution of a radical and subversive cinema focused upon challenging the moral codes and conservative values of the British establishment. This was...
Charles Mudede discusses Police Beat and Zoo.(Interview)
March 22, 2007... Charles Tonderai Mudede was born in Rhodesia--now Zimbabwe--in 1969. He is currently the associate editor of Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger, where he regularly covers crime as part of his Police Beat column, and occasionally writes...
Once Upon a Time in America: Sergio Leone and the construction of myth.
March 22, 2007... Leone's use of genre conventions in Once Upon a Time in America (1984) seems to locate his film well within the confines of the American gangster film genre. The film bombards us with a string of cliches that we readily associate with American...