Open ScreensPub Date : 2022-05-10DOI: 10.16995/os.8958
Stuart Bell
{"title":"Book Review: John Baxter, Charles Boyer: The French Lover","authors":"Stuart Bell","doi":"10.16995/os.8958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8958","url":null,"abstract":"JohnBaxter, Charles Boyer: The French Lover (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2021), pp. vii-254, ISBN978-0813155524 (hb), $33","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121734755","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}
Open ScreensPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.16995/os.8012
Ekin Pinar
{"title":"The Place of Women’s Filmmaking in an Interdisciplinary Architecture Course","authors":"Ekin Pinar","doi":"10.16995/os.8012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8012","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the rich pedagogical potential of women’s filmmaking for interdisciplinary courses that explore the relations between cinema, architecture, and urbanism. While many courses on this subject tend to focus on white male filmmakers (e.g., Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Tati, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang), in constructing a new version of this elective, I aimed to extensively incorporate women’s filmmaking to the curriculum, especially opting for exemplary films that provide a rich basis to discuss the construction of gender and cinematic space in relation to one other. The course pays sustained, rigorous attention to women as filmmakers, textual subjects, and spectators while discussing topics including domesticity; borders and movement; screening space and spectatorship; cine-museology; national and transnational spaces; animated worldmaking; and digital realisms. Taking the classroom discussions on The Babadook (dir. Jennifer Kent, Australia, 2014) and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour, US, 2015) as its case studies, this paper considers how the use of women’s filmmaking in an interdisciplinary course allows students to explore diverse strategies of cinematic representation that deconstruct and reshape gender in connection to the cinematic fabrications of space.","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127958574","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}
Open ScreensPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.16995/os.8014
K. Bird
{"title":"Young (Woman) Filmmaker(s)","authors":"K. Bird","doi":"10.16995/os.8014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8014","url":null,"abstract":"This 9 minute and 28 second video essay, prepared for the conference ‘Teaching Women’s Filmmaking,’ takes a literal approach to the conference theme. Using the film The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019) as an inspiration, the video essay explores the unexpected generational overlaps between learning to become a filmmaker as a young woman and then later teaching young women filmmakers in the university classroom. This personal video essay explores the process of becoming a film director through learning and teaching by valuing a pedagogy of, in Hogg’s words, ‘one’s own breath.’","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131565144","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}
Open ScreensPub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.16995/os.8020
Georgia Brown
{"title":"Book Review: James Buhler and Hannah Lewis (eds), Voicing the Cinema: Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2020)","authors":"Georgia Brown","doi":"10.16995/os.8020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8020","url":null,"abstract":"James Buhler and Hannah Lewis (eds), Voicing the Cinema: Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2020), pp. 309, ISBN: 9780252043000 (pb), $30; ISBN: 9780252051869 $19.95 (ebook ePub).","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117023650","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}
Open ScreensPub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.16995/os.8021
Louise Coopey
{"title":"Book Review: Martin Barker, Clarissa Smith and Feona Attwood, Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage with Dark Television (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021)","authors":"Louise Coopey","doi":"10.16995/os.8021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8021","url":null,"abstract":"Martin Barker, Clarissa Smith and Feona Attwood, Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage with Dark Television (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021), pp. vii – 200, ISBN: 9781526152176 (hb), £80.00.","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123612167","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}
Open ScreensPub Date : 2021-12-31DOI: 10.16995/os.8019
Maya Nedyalkova
{"title":"Rhetoric of Belonging and Transnational Appropriation in the Development and Marketing of the Bulgarian Popular Feature Love.net","authors":"Maya Nedyalkova","doi":"10.16995/os.8019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8019","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on issues of representation and belonging, in an attempt to uncover how popular cinema in Bulgaria caters to national sensitivities while at the same time making the link with the global film industries. The Bulgarian popular feature Love.net (Ilian Djevelekov, 2011) is an example of the shift towards treating filmmaking in Bulgaria as a business as much as a cultural venture. It emerged as part of broader European trends, which put an emphasis on film development, marketing and stars, with the aim to counter Hollywood’s dominant market position. Love.net focuses on the role of the Internet as facilitating love, relations and communication in the contemporary world. On a textual level, and similarly to Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003), it explores the six degrees of separation theory, implicitly advocating for a world of interconnectedness. Contextually, Love.net created a sense of virtual belonging among the local online community, allowing them to participate in the film’s development and engage with its interactive marketing. Transnational stars provided a further point of contact and involvement. Through its mixed cast featuring home-grown and locally popular foreign actors, Love.net both channelled and challenged Hollywood, positioning European cinema as similar in glamour and attraction but different in identity.","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124865416","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}
Open ScreensPub Date : 2021-10-31DOI: 10.16995/os.8009
Jamie Chambers, W. Higbee
{"title":"Utopian Montage: exploring transnational folk cinemas online during the Covid-19 pandemic as part of the 2020 Folk Film Gathering film festival","authors":"Jamie Chambers, W. Higbee","doi":"10.16995/os.8009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8009","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores some of the simultaneous limitations and affordances the Covid-19 pandemic has created for emergent perspectives upon a transnational folk cinema. Merging aspects of more traditional scholarly enquiry with the research-by-practice embodied within Scotland's Folk Film Gathering film festival, we position two case studies - of Nadir Bouhmouch's Amussu (2020) and the Amber Collective's Like Father (2001) respectively - within some of the broader question underlying attempts to bring the conviviality of community-focussed filmmaking and cinema-going online during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124202641","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}
Open ScreensPub Date : 2021-10-29DOI: 10.16995/os.8017
Ilia Ryzhenko
{"title":"Book Review: Laura Sava, Theatre Through the Camera Eye: The Poetics of an Intermedial Encounter, (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)","authors":"Ilia Ryzhenko","doi":"10.16995/os.8017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8017","url":null,"abstract":"Laura Sava, Theatre Through the Camera Eye: The Poetics of an Intermedial Encounter, (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 256, ISBN: 9781474484282 (pb), £19.99; ISBN: 9780748697472 (hb), £80.00; ISBN: 9781474445900 (ePub), £80.00; ISBN: 9780748697489 (PDF), £80.00.","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124670581","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}
Open ScreensPub Date : 2021-10-29DOI: 10.16995/os.8016
Jonny Smith
{"title":"Book Review: Brian McFarlane (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of British Film, 5th edition (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021)","authors":"Jonny Smith","doi":"10.16995/os.8016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8016","url":null,"abstract":"Brian McFarlane (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of British Film, 5th edition (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021), pp. 968, ISBN: 978-1526159267, £133.20","PeriodicalId":320521,"journal":{"name":"Open Screens","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127085585","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}