Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of Film Studies:

PUNCHING UP THE STORY: Disability and Film

Apr 01, 2008; Markotic, Nicole ... In many contemporary films, disability may be represented as a moral metaphor (The Straight Story [France/UK/USA, 1999, David Lynch]), as extraordinarily heroic (A Beautiful Mind [USA, 2001, Ron Howard]), or as the punch line of a gag (There's Something About Mary [USA, 1998, Bobby and Peter ...

"HOW DO WE GET ALL THESE DISABILITIES IN HERE?": Disability Film Festivals and the Politics of Atypicality

Apr 01, 2008; Snyder, Sharon L; Mitchell, David T ... Résumé: Qu'est-ce qui change quand les personnes handicapées deviennent le public cible du cinéma plutôt que son objet, et que l'espace des festivals du film sur l'infirmité devient un lieu d'interaction? Le cinéma sur l'infirmité a produit une énorme quantité d'oeuvres et le champ significatif ...

"MOVE! YOU'RE IN THE WAY": Disability and Age Meet on Screen

Apr 01, 2008; Chivers, Sally ... Résumé: Dans l'imaginaire populaire, l'invalidité et la vieillesse sont deux états distincts, et ce même si la seconde n'échappe pas aux stigmas et restrictions imposés à la première. Au cinéma, l'image de la normalité chez les ainés se développe en relation avec l'anormalité de cette partie de ...

THE "VALUABLE DEFORMITY": Calipers and the Failed Trope of Postcolonial Debt in Deepa Mehta's Earth

Apr 01, 2008; Budde, Robert ... Résumé: Dès le début de Earth, la cinéaste Deepa Mehta établit un parallèle entre une assiette fracassée, un pays morcelé et le corps endommagée de la jeune Lenny. Par un décodage idéologique de ce physique infirme, la réalité corporelle vécue de ce corps échappe au regard critique. On ne remet ...

MODERNITY'S RESCUE MISSION: Postcolonial Transactions of Disability and Sexuality

Apr 01, 2008; Kim, Eunjung; Jarman, Michelle ... Résumé: Certains films internationaux portant sur l'infirmité entreprennent un « projet de modernisation » qui veut « secourir » le corps handicapé en le rescapant de son contexte original et en lui offrant un « remède » contre une condition médicale stratégiquement identifiée comme « ...

THE WILD CHILD

Apr 01, 2008; McCance, Dawne ... Résumé: L'Enfant sauvage de François Truffaut expose le privilège que la modernité du dix-neuvième siècle accordait à la connexion entre la parole et l'audition par rapport à la tenue droite. En traçant l'incapacité de l'enfant sauvage d'Aveyron à répondre « au traitement de la parole », le film ...

PROJECTING CANADA: GOVERNMENT POLICY AND DOCUMENTARY FILM AT THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD/FILMING POLITICS: COMMUNISM AND THE PORTRAYAL OF THE WORKING CLASS AT THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, 1939-46

Apr 01, 2008; Baker, Michael Brendan ... PROJECTING CANADA: GOVERNMENT POLICY AND DOCUMENTARY FILM AT THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD ZoëDruick Montréal: McGill-Queens University Press, Arts Insights Series, 2007, 244 pp. FILMING POLITICS: COMMUNISM AND THE PORTRAYAL OF THE WORKING CLASS AT THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, 1939-46 ...

THE SHARPEST POINT: ANIMATION AT THE END OF CINEMA

Apr 01, 2008; Davies, Jon ... THE SHARPEST POINT: ANIMATION AT THE END OF CINEMA Edited by Chris Cehman and Steve Reinke Toronto: YYZ Books and Images Festival/Ottawa: Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2005, 288 pp. In his essay "The World Is a Cartoon: Stray Notes on Animation," video artist Steve Reinke ...

THE CINEMA OF CANADA/FILM IN CANADA

Apr 01, 2008; Burgess, Diane ... THE CINEMA OF CANADA Edited by Jerry White London: Wallflower Press, 24 Frames Series, 2006, 268 pp. FILM IN CANADA Jim Leach Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006, 196 pp. Two new books survey the terrain of Canadian cinema, each striving to present a cohesive, ...

THE ROMANCE OF TRANSGRESSION IN CANADA: QUEERING SEXUALITIES, NATIONS, CINEMAS

Apr 01, 2008; DeRosia, Margaret ... THE ROMANCE OF TRANSGRESSION IN CANADA: QUEERING SEXUALITIES, NATIONS, CINEMAS Thomas Waugh Montréal and Kingston: McCill-Queens University Press, 2006, 606 pp. Reviewed by Margaret DeRosia The Romance of Transgression in Canada's titular inspiration comes from the National Film ...

GANGSTER PRIEST: THE ITALIAN AMERICAN CINEMA OF MARTIN SCORSESE

Apr 01, 2008; Raymond, Marc ... GANGSTER PRIEST: THE ITALIAN AMERICAN CINEMA OF MARTIN SCORSESE Robert Casillo Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 600 pp. Reviewed by Marc Raymond Within the critical literature on Martin Scorsese, there exists a large volume of work on his Italian Catholic background ....

POPULAR FRONT PARIS AND THE POETICS OF CULTURE

Apr 01, 2008; O'Brien, Charles ... POPULAR FRONT PARIS AND THE POETICS OF CULTURE Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2005, 464 pp. Reviewed by Charles O'Brien In Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture co-authors Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar offer a study ...

TAIWAN FILM DIRECTORS: A TREASURE ISLAND

Apr 01, 2008; Jian, Yu-Jyuan ... TAIWAN FILM DIRECTORS: A TREASURE ISLAND Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, 296 pp. Reviewed by Yu-Jyuan Jian Through the study of selected directors and the investigation of social contexts in cultural reproduction, Taiwan ...

GENRE AND CINEMA: IRELAND AND TRANSNATIONALISM

Apr 01, 2008; Macdougall, Heather ... GENRE AND CINEMA: IRELAND AND TRANSNATIONALISM Edited by Brian Mcllroy New York: Routledge, 2007, 284 pp. Reviewed by Heather Macdougall Irish cinema as a subject of study was virtually ignored until the late eighties, but it seems that researchers are now making up for lost ...