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Abstract: guillermo del toro is one of the leading directors of our time. His most renowned film to date is The Shape of Water (2017), which won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score. I would like to explore the reasons for the film's success by first assessing the suitability of a term that has been used in connection with its style—magic or magical realism—and then homing in on the film's central character, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins), a mute cleaning woman in the fictional Occam Aerospace Research Center in Baltimore in 1962. Because Elisa Esposito moves from a position of silent victimization to one of agency, her development can be illuminated through an analogy to ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: public-facing dance media have been widely available for decades. Examples include the dance-heavy movie musicals of the 1930s–50s, competition and reality television shows like So You Think You Can Dance, and games like Dance Dance Revolution. All of these have been the subjects of inquiry for media scholars seeking to understand not only the kinds of meaning-making in which these artifacts engage, but also how dance is involved in the process.1 However, both the general public and media scholars are less familiar with media created by and for "the dance world" itself. These are normally documentary-style moving-image media consisting primarily of rehearsal or performance footage, originally created for a range of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: in recent years, several scholarly works (e.g., Broughton; Johnson et al.; Mitchell) have revisited one of the oldest genres in film history—the Western—to examine its lasting appeal and its ability to reinvent itself through hybridization with other genres. However, when genre hybridization is considered, research often focuses on so-called weird hybrids1 (see Green; Johnson et al.) or "darker" varieties such as noir and crime fiction crossovers (e.g., Mitchell or Monticone). Joe Johnston's Hidalgo (2004) is unusual in this context, and its ambiguous reception at the time of its release highlights some of the problems that arise when genre conventions are taken too much at face value. A closer analysis of the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: the global fight against gender inequality and social injustice has grown steadily, and after many years of dedication, it has become indisputably a priority for global and national development that is reshaping policies and decision-making. The integration of the agenda for gender equality and women's and girls' empowerment with Ghana's national development efforts has yielded some modest progress.1 For example, the enactment of various laws and policies has increased girls' access to education. As a result, there are now more girls than boys in primary schools (Florence Muhanguzi 6), and there is growth in the number of women engaged in the workforce as entrepreneurs (Entsie). Regardless of these gains, new and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Far more unsettling is the way that each [fact-based drama and historical documentary film] compresses the past to a closed world by telling a single, linear story with, essentially, a single interpretation. Such a narrative strategy obviously denies historical alternatives, does away with complexities of motivation or causation, and banishes all subtlety from the world of history.more than thirty years after Robert Rosenstone wrote the preceding words in 1988, the historian and film scholar's critique still describes the contemporary fact-based drama and its subset, the docudrama, a factbased drama about public events, upon which this article will focus. What might be called traditional docudramas include films ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: in the summer of 2019, the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016–present) partnered with Eggo for a marketing campaign in the build-up to the release of its highly anticipated third season. The show, which follows a group of teens and adults in small-town 1980s Indiana as they struggle to keep at bay a succession of supernatural forces unleashed following the opening of a portal to an alternate dimension, was a surprise hit following its 2016 premiere, and it quickly became the streaming service's most recognizable original production. Eggo waffles—a favorite of Eleven, one of the show's teen protagonists—had seen a surge in sales following the show's premiere and gained iconic status within its fandom, so a ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: in the east (2013), actor Brit Marling plays Jane Owen, a young and ambitious private intelligence operative who has infiltrated an underground environmentalist organization that threatens the interests of polluting corporations. As Sarah Moss—the drifter alter ego Jane plays to get access to the eco-activists' hideout—the protagonist will embark on an eye-opening doppelganger experience that shakes her ideological principles. Her ecoutopian conversion can be read under the light of the rising discredit of a "neoliberal rationality" that economized existence and democracy (Brown 10)—a demystification of individualist, exploitative, and competitive "hunter" logics (Bauman, Liquid Times 100–03) that runs parallel to ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: three decades ago, a group of blackdirected films began to appear in theaters, addressing issues of over-policing and social justice. These "hood films," as they came to be called, were directed almost exclusively by young African American men and challenged media discourses about black lives, the inner city, and the causes of poverty and violence. From 1991 to 1995, over twenty films were released as part of the hood-film cycle. The genre focuses on the lived experiences of African Americans in the inner city and emphasizes aspects of black culture. Keith M. Harris grounds the genre as part of a larger shift in black aesthetics, arguing that the films "recode the existing coding of blackness, informing the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-08T00:00:00-05:00
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