Recently added articles from CineAction:
Documentary and superheroes: from the margins to the mainstream.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Last summer, when I began to think about a theme for this issue, I happened to glance at the daily newspaper listings of movies currently showing in Toronto. What struck me was that there seemed to be a preponderance, not just of comic-book-hero based films but also of documentaries, two ...
Evita in wonderland: Pulqui and the workshop of underdevelopment.(DOCUMENTARY)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In their film The Take (2004), Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein identify Argentina's 2001 economic collapse and the factory takeover movement that followed as a precursor to the type of disaster capitalism that the United States and developed countries are experiencing today. The film ends with ...
Sounds like Canada: a reexamination of the development of Canadian cinema-verite.(DOCUMENTARY)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... It is well known that within the kingdom of nonfiction film, the order of "direct documentary", regardless of genus (cinema-verite, Direct Cinema, Free Cinema, Candid Eye), did not emerge fully formed from the brow of any of its progenitors no matter how organic its evolution may appear in ...
The war on film: reanimating the post-9/11 Viewer in the prisoner, Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair.(DOCUMENTARY)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... "We have done nothing. ... Yes, you see that in the camera." --Yunis Khatayer Abbas The war in Iraq, officially launched in March 2003, has become the most filmed war in cinema's 114-year history. In its first six years, there have been news photos and footage, ...
The dialogical documentary: Jennifer fox on finding a new film language in flying: confessions of a Free Woman (2007).(DOCUMENTARY)(Interview)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Originally co-produced for Danish television, the six-hour autobiographical series, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman has gained international acclaim since entering the film festival circuit in early 2007. American filmmaker Jennifer Fox is no stranger to the longitudinal documentary ...
Secret identities: the superhero simulacrum and the nation.(DOCUMENTARY)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... There is a sequence early on in Matthew Ogens' 2007 documentary Confessions of a Superhero in which one of its principle subjects, Christopher Dennis, sitting on a worn couch in a Superman costume, says, "I like to consider myself to be a historian of Superman and the keeper of artifacts." ...
Convergence culture and the Caped Crusader: Batman and the environment of new media.(Superheroes)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Henry Jenkins' Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2006) has already cast a wide-ranging shadow of influence over New Media studies, prompting many critics to identify certain texts as harbingers of our current state of media convergence. Such projects, in legitimizing ...
On the Obama-ization of Will Smith.(Superheroes)(Barack Obama)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In Hancock, Will Smith's superhero film of the summer '08 blockbuster season, he plays John Hancock, a superhero who, in spite of his unsightly characteristics, nevertheless uses his super powers to uphold justice in the streets of America. While this is no extraordinary story in itself, ...
Lost in translation: on Frank Miller's the Spirit.(Superheroes)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... My wife and I attended an evening screening of The Spirit (2008) the day after the film premiered at our local multiplex. Despite the fact that the theater was mostly empty (a fact not uncommon during Christmas break in our small college town, but one which I may also attribute to a ...
"Tone down the boobs, please!" reading the special effect body in superhero movies (1).(Superheroes)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Superheroes have overcome their lowly pulp comic book beginnings to become an intrinsic part of North American pop culture. They have become iconic symbols to be reiterated and recycled in popular culture to mobilize and reflect themes, tensions, and anxieties of American ideology in terms ...
Of depth and surfaces; notes on Watchmen and other (non)reflections on phenomenological film experience.(Superheroes)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... A Mirror That Holds No Reflection While attending school some years ago I came across an "art piece" occupying a large portion of an exposed brown brick wall in the main lobby of the building where most of my studying was conducted. In fact, I had literally crossed this "art ...