Recently added articles from Film International:
Editorial Issue 36
Nov 01, 2008; ... During early March 2007, we were preparing a handout, the purpose of which was to solicit essays for what eventually has become this present issue of Film International. Our aim was to bring along the handout for distribution at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference which was about ...
Presumed Effects of Erotica: Some Notes on the Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Nov 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, Obscenity Law, MPAA, MPAA Film rating system, Jack Valenti, Richard Nixon, film with adult themes In his 1965 State of the Union address, President Johnson outlined the 'Great Society'. It was as ambitious a social programme as the New ...
Breaking the Swedish Sex Barrier: Painful Lustfulness in Ingmar Bergman's The Silence
Nov 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Ingmar Bergman, The Silence (1963), breaking the sex barrier, painful lustfulness, explicit sex, film censorship It is well known that Ingmar Bergman, along with August Strindberg, has been the most highly regarded artist in Sweden during the twentieth century.1 Bergman's ...
Eros and Civilization: Sexuality and the Contemporary International Art Cinema
Nov 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Eros (2004), Michelangelo Antonioni, Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh, eroticism in film, anthology films, nudity, national cinema (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) In our age of globalization, it is often assumed that the distinctive thematic and ...
'What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas': Sexual Subcultures and Forensic Science in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Nov 01, 2008; ... Keywords: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-), TV series, sexual subcultures, forensic science, Las Vegas, TV censorship, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) In recent years, the crime genre has showed many signs of an increased interest in forensic science as a crime-solving ...
Raw Exposure: Portrayals of Youth Sexuality in Contemporary US Documentary
Nov 01, 2008; ... Keywords: documentary, adolescent sexuality, female youth, confession, sexually transmitted disease, female adolescent desire, sex education, taboo In 1996 a news story about an epidemic of syphilis among American teenagers from the Atlanta suburb of Conyers received national attention ....
Head-on, Head-off: How the Media Covered a Former Porn Actress's Rise to Stardom
Nov 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Head-On (2004), Sibel Kekilli, Fatih Akin, German cinema, Turkish cinema, Turkish porn, media scandals, transnationality, Turkish diaspora life After Fatih Akin's film Head-On/Gegen die Wand (2004) won the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival, the German ...
Maximizing Visibility
Nov 01, 2008; ... Keywords: alternative pornography, female ejaculation, maximum visibility, identity politics, feminism, Linda Williams, lesbian pornography Questions of alternative pornography - often discussed under labels such as feminist, lesbian, queer and post - are currently gaining a lot of ...
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
Nov 01, 2008; ... I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006) South Korea Directed by Chan-Wook Park Screenplay by Seo-Gyeong Jeong, Chan-Wook Park Produced by Chun-Yeong Lee Cinematography by Jeong-hun Jeong Film Editing by Jae-beom Kim, Sang-Beom Kim Original music by ...
The World
Nov 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes text missing in the original.) The World (2004) China Written and Directed by Jia Zhangke Cinematographer Yu Likwai Art Director Wu Lizhong Sound Zhang Yang Editor Kong Jiniei Music Lim Gong With Zhao Tao ...
Aamir at the multiplex Aamir
Nov 01, 2008; ... Aamir at the multiplex Aamir (2008) India Written and Directed by Raj Kumar Gupta Music Amit Trivedi Cinematography by Alphanso Roy Film Editing by Aarti Bajaj Production Company UTV Spotboy With Rajeev Khandelwal (Aamir Ali), Gajraj Rao (Chief) ...
Diary of the Dead
Nov 01, 2008; ... Diary of the Dead (2007) USA Director George A. Romero Screenplay George A. Romero Producer Peter Grunwald, Art Spiegel, Sam Englebardt, Ara Katz, Dan Fireman Director of Photography Adam Swica Art Director Jon P. Goulding Costumes Alex ...
Toronto Film Seminar Inaugural Meeting, 27 March 2008
Nov 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Toronto Film Seminar, Dana Polan, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, pedagogy, taste Profile The inaugural meeting of the Toronto Film Seminar (TFS) was held at Innis College at the University of Toronto on 27 March 2008. Modelled on forums in New York (Columbia Film ...
Editorial Issue 35
Sep 01, 2008; ... There has been a general feeling that the Scandinavian film industry has experienced a revival over the last decade, after a long period of relative obscurity. The exception to this obscurity was the many screenings all over the world of art-house classics, especially the films of Ingmar Bergman ...
A New Deal in European Film? Notes on the Swedish Regional Production Turn
Sep 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Film Production, European Film Production, Swedish Film Production, Runaway Production, Regional Film Production, Contemporary Film, Support for the Audio-Visual Industry A fundamental change in Swedish film during the last decade is that feature films are shot, in the majority ...
The Black Pimpernel: The Biopic as a Mediator of the Past
Sep 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Audio-visual History, Biopic, Harald Edelstam, International Co-production, Michael Nyqvist, Star Persona, Sweden As a 'travelling ambassador for the free Chile', former Swedish ambassador to Chile, Harald Edelstam, made hundreds of appearances together with a cluster of ...
Cinematic Sex Education in the Twenty-First Century: Narration, Reflexivity and Sexuality in Kärlekens Språk (2004)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Sex Education Film, Contemporary Swedish Cinema, Language of Love, Regina Lund, Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan, Disastrous Box Office Introduction In 1969, the Swedish sex education film Language of Love/Ur kärlekens språk (1969) became a huge box-office success in Sweden ....
Marcimainstream? History in two contemporary Swedish TV series
Sep 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Mikael Marcimain, Public Service Television, History, Archive, Palimpsest Introduction In December 2007, Sweden's largest morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter nominated the young director Mikael Marcimain for its prestigious Arts Prize: 'He is the best Swedish film-maker ...
Hollywood in Sweden: Cinematic references imagining America
Sep 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Swedish Film, Americanization, Hollywood Icons, Male Identity, Stereotypes, Conceptions about the USA Americanization Since at least the beginning of the nineteenth century, Sweden, like most of Europe, has suffered from a fear of Americanization. Often, American movies ...
Can Anyone Help These Men? A Portrait of Men in Successful Contemporary Scandinavian Cinema
Sep 01, 2008; ... Keywords: Scandinavian Cinema, Men, Masculinity, 1998-2008, Popular Cinema, Modern Society, Community, Family Introduction In many ways, cinema in Scandinavia has seen good development over the past ten years, and the year 1998 is as good as any to use as a starting point to make ...