{"title":"'Leviathan' : from sensory ethnography to gallery film","authors":"M. Wåhlberg","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.WAHL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.WAHL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128197801","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":"Shell shock cinema: A discussion with Anton Kaes","authors":"F. Pitassio","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.PITA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.PITA","url":null,"abstract":"Anton Kaes is the Class of 1939 Professor of German and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored a number of fascinating books, placing films and related discourses within a broader frame: the confrontation of German literati with cinema in the early 20 century, the contradictory relationship of German cinema with national history, and the impact of migration on German identity are only some of the many subjects that Kaes has written on. Recently, Kaes published a book on the legacy of the First World War in Weimar cinema: Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War (Princeton University Press, 2009). This book accounts for a complex network of discourses that the war elicited – psychiatric, memorial, racial, mythic, allegorical – and makes the argument that war trauma lies at the center of four masterpieces of Weimar cinema: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920), Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922), Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang, 1924), and Metropolis (Lang, 1927). The following conversation with Kaes comes as NECSUS contemplates the relationship between war and media.","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128581846","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":"The light of God: Notes on the visual economy of drones","authors":"Pasi Valiaho","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.VALI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.VALI","url":null,"abstract":"The frontispiece to the Jesuit priest Guilielmus Gumppenberg’s book Atlas marianus, first published in 1657, illustrates a story of the miraculous transport of the Virgin Mary’s house in Nazareth to Loreto, Italy.[2] Originating from the latter half of the 15th century, the story tells how some 200 years earlier, after the retreat of Christian crusaders from the Holy Land, angels airlifted the building from Palestine and carried it over to the town in the Italian Marches. The engraving shows a team of angels transporting the Virgin Mary’s humble dwelling to its destination. Beams of light emanate from the bottom of the house, which is covered by images of the Madonna with the Christ Child. The Mother of God herself is seated on the roof, holding Baby Jesus in her lap and gesturing toward the pictures on the roof of the house as well as in the heavens. Mediator between the heavens and the earth (mediatrix caeli et terrae), she radiates divine light and casts her presence onto the terrain below through her images.","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128014719","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":"Laughter and collective awareness: The cinema auditorium as public space","authors":"Julian Hanich","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.HANI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.HANI","url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at how the collective experience of laughter in the movie theater is related to the idea of the cinema as a public space. Through the non-verbal expression of laughter the audience ‘constructs’ a public space the viewers may not have been aware of to the same degree prior to the collective public expression. Moreover, the public space created through laughter allows for an expedient type of monitoring: inappropriate laughter may be exposed in front of others. With viewers who laugh approvingly about racist violence or misogynist jokes, we can easily lay bare the ethical implications.","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125435958","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":"The din of gunfire: Rethinking the role of sound in World War II newsreels","authors":"Masha Shpolberg","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.SHPO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.SHPO","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121524218","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":"Film festival management and programming","authors":"Jr Greg de Cuir","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.CUIR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.CUIR","url":null,"abstract":"Dewey, S. ‘”To Do Whatever She Wants”: Miss India, Bollywood and the Gendered Self’ inWomen and the media in Asia: The precarious self, edited by Y. Kim. New York-Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012: 204-219. Dyer, R. Heavenly bodies: Film stars and society. London-New York: Routledge, 2004. Kim, Y (ed.). Women and the media in Asia: The precarious self. New York-Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Mitra, S. ‘From Heroine to “Brand Shilpa”: Reality Television, Transnational Cultural Economics, and the Remaking of the Bollywood Star’ in Transnational stardom: International celebrity in film and popular culture, edited by R. Meeuf and R. Raphael. New York-Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013: 187-206. Weber, B.Makeover TV: Selfhood, citizenship, and celebrity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123282566","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":"Haunted by participatory culture","authors":"Rainer Hillrichs","doi":"10.1557/NECSUS2014.2.HILL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1557/NECSUS2014.2.HILL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130005992","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":"Minds, bodies, and hearts: Flare London LGBT Film Festival 2014","authors":"Rosalind Galt, K. Schoonover","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.GALT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.GALT","url":null,"abstract":"LGBTQ film festivals are engaged in a precarious dance. They cannot live without the identity categories that designate both their mission and their audience and yet they cannot live easily with these identities, which are continually expanded, revised, and contested. The growth of public discourse around previously marginalised identities (including but not limited to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, polyamorous, asexual, and genderqueer) has rapidly shifted the terrain for queer cinematic representation and cultural politics. As much as film festivals need identity categories, in recent years they seem to be involved in a process of establishing their distance from identitarian models in an attempt to remain relevant to people no longer identifying simply as L, G, B, or even Q. This balancing act has played out visibly in the name of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. After 27 years as one of the world’s largest and most international venues for queer film the festival outlived its name and changed it in 2014 to Flare: London LGBT Film Festival. The festival, organised under the auspices of the British Film Institute (BFI), is one of the oldest of its kind and in a sense the most institutionally grounded: it is tied to a wealthy nation’s film institute, renowned not only for its exhibition schedule but for its research library, scholarly activity, and publications. As a result the festival has a history of linking its curatorial practice with educational aims. The film programming is avowedly international and diverse, including cinematic forms from popular features to experimental shorts and activist documentary. The festival regularly includes presentations by researchers and roundtable discussions, and its institutional structures enable outreach efforts such as touring a selection of films around the UK each year and working with LGBT, anti-racist, and feminist organisations to create community links. Despite this strong institutional setting the festival has not always been easy to sustain. As recently as 2011 it was forced to shrink from its normal two-week length to just one week as a result of the British Conservative coalition government’s drastic cuts to arts funding.[2]","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117114110","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":"Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival: Between the national and the global","authors":"Murat Akser","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2013.2.AKSE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2013.2.AKSE","url":null,"abstract":"The first edition of the Antalya Golden Orange International Film Festival was launched fifty years ago in 1964, at a time when the international success of the director Metin Erksan ignited national support for the creation of a Turkish film festival. Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival has primarily been a national film festival, despite occasional claims to internationality. The history of the festival is also tainted by political aspirations. Antalya’s rivalry with the Golden Boll Film Festival in neighboring Adana provides an interesting case study for understanding the ways in which tensions between political parties and municipalities may affect film festival organisation.","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133084434","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}
Lavinia Brydon, A. Strohmaier, Enrico M. Camporesi
{"title":"Re-writing the history of the avant-garde","authors":"Lavinia Brydon, A. Strohmaier, Enrico M. Camporesi","doi":"10.5117/NECSUS2013.2.CAMP","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2013.2.CAMP","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174743,"journal":{"name":"Necsus. European Journal of Media Studies","volume":"68 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120852353","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}