Recently added articles from CineAction:
Slumdog comprador: coming to terms with the Slumdog phenomenon.(GLOBAL CINEMA)
Dec 22, 2009; ... Every time a film made by a Western director about India gains critical acclaim in the West, two related phenomena seem to also occur: the greatest hits of negative stereotypes are brought out and served up in the film (think poverty, squalor and general backwardness), even as the 'usual ...
Free films made freely: Paolo Gioli and experimental filmmaking in Italy.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2009; ... As a premise for my way of making films and working with film, the most important thing is the movie-camera understood almost as a laboratory (for the shooting and printing of films) ... I express my love for the cinema through the movie-camera; in terms of time requirements and production ...
Screening the borderland: transsexualism as cinematic metaphor.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2009; ... Transsexuals are individuals born with the physiological and chromosomal identity of one gender, but who mentally and emotionally believe they belong to the opposite gender. They consider their condition a mistake of nature, a congenital anomaly. The medical term for transsexualism is ...
Torture porn and bodies politic: post-Cold War American perspectives in Eli Roth's Hostel and Hostel: Part II.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2009; ... During the press tour for his directorial debut, Cabin Fever (2003), American horror filmmaker Eli Roth compared his $1.5 million independent film to the 1980s American horror films of his youth: "By the end of the decade, horror had literally become a joke. The term I often use to ...
The new James Bond: and globalization theory, inside and out.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2009; ... As almost every magazine, newspaper, radio, and television film critic has noticed, the new James Bond is different from the old James Bond; he is more serious, more muscular, and less witty. (1) But beyond such cosmetic character traits that came with the style and physique of the new ...