{"title":"The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973), by Daniel Fairfax","authors":"M. Grosoli","doi":"10.33178/alpha.22.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.22.07","url":null,"abstract":"Right in the middle of Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996), a VCR excerpt from Classe de lutte (Medvedkin group, 1969) is shown during a dinner party. In the context of postmodernist Paris, those militant, raw, politically engaged images look like footage from another planet, a veritable foreign body. As recently as 2012, in Something in the Air (Après mai), the same director would zoom into the aftermath of 1968, thoroughly reconstructing the historical fabric of those years.","PeriodicalId":113407,"journal":{"name":"On the Cultural Circulation of Contemporary European Crime Cinema","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127499970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ride the Frontier: Exploring the Myth of the American West on Screen, by Flavia Brizio-Skov","authors":"Andrew Corsini","doi":"10.33178/alpha.22.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.22.10","url":null,"abstract":"Flavia Brizio-Skov’s Ride the Frontier: Exploring the Myth of the American West on Screen comes at a crucial time for the western. It is no secret that the genre has suffered a loss in popularity in recent years, compared to its ubiquity in the Hollywood golden era—also due, for instance, to high-profile critical and commercial failures such as Cowboys and Aliens (Jon Favreau, 2011) and The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski, 2013), the latter of which is examined in this book’s final chapter. The conventions of classical westerns have been reappraised many times before. Cahiers du cinéma critics like André Bazin had high regard for the films of Howard Hawks, whereas Laura Mulvey, writing from a psychoanalytic perspective, discussed how the western hero was often split between nostalgic narcissism and social integration. More recent trends in academic studies demonstrate a progressive approach by proposing new ways of looking at old material. Ryan W. McMaken sees anti-capitalist traits in the cowboy genre, arguing for “The Gunfight Vs. Capitalism”. Douglas Brode infers a “New Deal Western”, while Lee Broughton offers positive alternative Euro-Westerns, in comparison to their American counterparts, noting progressive representation of women, Native Americans and African Americans.","PeriodicalId":113407,"journal":{"name":"On the Cultural Circulation of Contemporary European Crime Cinema","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133033129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not Your Average Zombie: Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks, \u0000by Chera Kee","authors":"Lea Espinoza Garrido","doi":"10.33178/alpha.22.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.22.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113407,"journal":{"name":"On the Cultural Circulation of Contemporary European Crime Cinema","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123749448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}