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Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
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ISSN (Print) 0360-3695 - ISSN (Online) 1548-9922
Published by Project MUSE

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Spectral Politics in Emir Kusturica's Underground
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  Abstract: The film Underground (Dir. Emir Kusturica, 1995) examines the history of the former Yugoslavia—in a state of war from the 1940s to the 1990s—as a palimpsest of catastrophes. The film won the 1995 Palme d' Or in Cannes around the time that the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and later Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRFY) ceased to exist, having been divided into six independent countries. Framed by a prologue and an epilogue, the narrative of the film proceeds in three parts, each signaled by an intertitle. "Part 1—War" begins with the Nazi bombing of Belgrade on 6 April 1941 and shows the beginning of the Partisan resistance until the Allies bomb the remains of Belgrade in 1944; "Part 2—Cold War" ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00
Picturing Israel: A Study of Cinema and Politics
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  Abstract: In 1933, a Zionist film crew produced a cornerstone Israeli film, Oded Hanoded, depicting a child's adventures in the Jezreel Valley, at the forefront of Jewish civilization amidst Arab Bedouins.1 This film embodied the Zionist struggle for an ethno-religious homeland by presenting strong European-Jewish characters engaged in a life-and-death battle for survival against hostile land and backwards tribes.2 These sentiments dominated early 20th century settler politics and culminated in the successful creation the state of Israel in 1948. Early immigrants to Israel between 1880-1940 came from diverse ethnic and national backgrounds within Europe; Zionists actively overcame those differences by creating a modern ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00
"This is How You See Me'": Collisions of Influence and Feminocentric
Canon Building in Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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  Abstract: Celine Sciamma's 2019 film Portrait of a Lady on Fire depicts a nineteenth-century romance between women as a looming marriage plot which threatens to overturn passion in favor of tradition. Portrait of a Lady on Fire is an original work, though it is filled with echoes of and allusions to classic romance novels and marriage plots from the time of its setting—something made clear immediately from its title's evocation of Henry James's classic novel The Portrait of a Lady. The original French title of the film is Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu, translating directly to "Portrait of an Unmarried Young Woman on Fire," as opposed to "femme," the literal translation of "lady." Despite this, Sciamma, in "No Man's Land: ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00
Gender and [Re-]Casting in Steve McQueen's Hunger: Selectively Culling
Bobby Sands's Writings from Prison
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  Abstract: Ireland's 1981 Maze hunger strike may seem a distant memory, especially since following the Belfast Agreement of 1998 there has been peace and stability in Northern Ireland. The acclaimed film inspired by the Maze strike, Hunger, released in 2008, may thus seem immaterial today. Yet Irish nationalism continues to be of international import. In 2016, a documentary film featuring the Bobby Sands-led strike, 66 Days, was released; nominated for several awards, it was the winner of the Galway Film Fleadh. Moreover, with Brexit, the Economist states that "vexed questions that the Good Friday Agreement had carefully put aside—on borders, identity and to whom Northern Ireland really belongs—are dangerously back in play."1 ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00
Visual Reasoning: 2001: a space odyssey as Film Pedagogy
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  Abstract: Historian and film theorist Robert Rosenstone has reminded teachers that even a deeply empirical art form like a documentary or historical film will "create its own standards, appropriate to possibilities and practices of the medium" (33-34)—a cautionary note requiring that each film be taught as a medium, a set of instruments and materials, operating inside a specific moment of personhood, technique, genre, history, and pattern of meaning. Art creates many of its own terms for how it should be understood. It teaches us (we hope in a significant and compelling way) how to learn. It isn't merely a historical artifact. Students can learn some history from Judgment at Nuremberg (Kramer 1961), for example, but they can ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00
Detecting the South in Fiction, Film & Television by Deborah E. Barker
and Theresa Starkey (review)
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  Abstract: In Detecting the South in Fiction, Film & Television, an edited volume included in LSU Press's Southern Literary Studies series, editors Deborah E. Barker and Theresa Starkey combine essays from literary, film, and television scholars with several from Southern crime fiction authors such as Ace Atkins and Megan Abbott. Although literary fiction is the main focus of this volume, many essays also touch on film and television, making this collection valuable for anyone interested in the televised American South, detective films, or simply scholarly debates on the South and Southern exceptionalism. Composed of four parts ("Detecting Southern Noir," "Privately Detecting the South," "Detecting Southern Cops," and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00
Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970 as
American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smuckler (review)
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  Abstract: In 2015, Hollywood studios made headlines as the as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accepted a request made by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California to investigate systemic discrimination in the hiring of women film directors. While mainstream media reported the inquiry as a potential watershed moment for gendered labor equality in the industry, little was made of the fact that the EEOC had been down this road with Hollywood before. Thankfully, Maya Montañez Smuckler's Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970as American Cinema painstakingly narrates the lesser-known history of the intersection between employment oversight, Hollywood guilds ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00
Resetting the Scene: Classic Hollywood Revisited ed. by Philippa Gates and
Katherine Spring (review)
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  Abstract: Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, edited by Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring, showcases the major developments made in the field of classical Hollywood since the publication of David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson's landmark study, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 which defined the field over 30 years ago. Indeed, the editors and contributors openly acknowledge their indebtedness to The Classical Hollywood Cinema throughout the volume, beginning with Spring, who avers in the introduction that it "established standards for methodologically rigorous archival research and laid the foundation for a research program—historical poetics—that ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T00:00:00-05:00