Recently added articles from Journal of Film and Video:
The Living Body and the Corpse-Israeli Documentary Cinema and the Intifadah
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction: Bodies That Do Not Matter A CONSIDERATION OF ISRAELI NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL FILMS produced since the outbreak of the al-Aqsa, or second, Intifadah (2000-2004)' reveals a perplexing phenomenon. Although the majority of Israeli filmmakers identify with the Left, which generally ...
Making Light of the Dark: Understanding the World of His Girl Friday
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Meaning of Worlds IN THE FINAL SENTENCE OF A STUDY OF PERFORMANCE in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Andrew Klevan makes claim for a particular achievement of the film's cast, whereby "they embrace [the plot's] linearity to create other dimensions, seamlessly, so that ...
The Seductive and Subversive Meta-Narrative of Unforgiven
Oct 01, 2008; ... So You Like Westerns? RESPONSES TO CLINT EASTWOOD'S UNFORGIVEN (1992) divide into those that align it with the traditional Western and those that group it with what has been variously described as the "alternative Western," "new Western," and the "revisionist Western." Revisionist ...
"You CAN Play Mathematical Equations on the Violin!": Quantifying Artistic Learning Outcomes for Assessment Purposes
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) once said, "You cannot play mathematical equations on the violin." By that he meant simply that there was a decided difference between the sciences and the arts. Yet in today's academy, internal effectiveness reviews and ...
By a Thread: Civilization in Fritz Lang's Fury
Oct 01, 2008; ... JOE: THE LAW DOESN'T KNOW that a lot of things that were very important to me-silly things maybe, like a belief in justice, and an idea that men were civilized, and a feeling of pride that this country of mine was different from all others-the law doesn't know that those things were burned to ...
New Immigrant, Old Story: Framing Russians on the Israeli Screen
Oct 01, 2008; ... FOLLOWING THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION, nearly two million people escaped the former empire to pursue new lives in Israel, the United States, Germany, and other countries. By the mid-1990s, the "new Russian immigrant" had begun to emerge as a character in both commercial and art-house cinema ...
Mapping Beur Cinema in the New Millennium
Oct 01, 2008; ... RECENT EVENTS IN FRANCE have drawn international attention to the difficulties facing the nation's young people in an extremely tight labor market. In November 2005, riots on the outskirts of many major cities caused over 200 million euros of property damage and one death. The rioters were ...
Small Media, Global Media: Kino and the Microcinema Movement
Oct 01, 2008; ... AT A 1991 CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE of the media in Québec, journalism professor Florian Sauvageau cited a prediction made a decade earlier by Gérard Barbin, president of Radio-Québec: "In the future, there will be very big media and very small media" (9).1 More than twenty-five years later, ...
THE DEATH OF CLASSICAL CINEMA: HITCHCOCK, LANG, MINNELLI
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE DEATH OF CLASSICAL CINEMA: HITCHCOCK, LANG, MINNELLI Joe McElhaney. Albany: New York Press, 2006, 255 pp. THE DEATH OF CLASSICAL CINEMA is by far the most comprehensive look at three distinct filmmakers and their approach between classical and modernist cinema. Author joe McElhaney ...