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Editor's Introduction
Jul 01, 2008; ... With this issue (38.2), we complete our two-part volume on "The Documentary Tradition." Whereas 38.1 emphasized aesthetic and epistemologie al concerns about documentary -sty Ie films, this issue emphasizes historiographie al concerns about their production and reception. How was the film made? ...
Making Anti-Fascism into Fascism: The Political Transformation of Tiro al Piccione (1961)1
Jul 01, 2008; ... On rare occasions a single political event can grossly alter, even subvert, a film's public reception. In 1 961 , the distortion of Giuliano Montaldo's Tiro ed Piccione "Pigeon Shoot" makes this film a vital historical artifact for an exploration of Italy's memory of fascism and bears the ...
Character Assassination?: Empire Building and Cultural Pathology in Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin
Jul 01, 2008; ... Based on a 1st- century -B. C. E. historical text, The Emperor and the Assassin depicts the Chinese empire at its "originary" moment. ' It is 225 B.C. Ying Zheng, King of Qin, is obsessed with uniting six other kingdoms under his control. To justify the invasion of the Yan kingdom, Ying Zheng ...
Hollywood's India: The Meaning of RKO's Gunga Din
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE "You have sworn as soldiers, if need be, to die for y our country, your England. Well, India is my country and my faith, and I can die for my faith and my country as readily as you for yours."1 These are the words, not of an Indian nationalist hero, but of the ...
Say Who Made Her So: Breaker Morant and British Empire
Jul 01, 2008; ... In the early morning of February 27, 1902, on a windy, barren hill in the Transvaal region of South Africa, Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter J. Handcock, serving in what is now known as the South African War,1 were shot by a British firing squad. The third convict, Lieutenant George ...