New CinemasPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1386/NCIN.15.1.81_1
K. Munro
{"title":"The essay film as address: The epistle as relational act","authors":"K. Munro","doi":"10.1386/NCIN.15.1.81_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NCIN.15.1.81_1","url":null,"abstract":"The epistle has long associations with the essay film not only through the notable filmmakers who have used the form, but also in how it addresses an audience. This tendency reflects the lineage of the development of the Montaignian literary essay from private letter to public audience. In this article I explore the use of the epistolary address, both formally within the text, and as part of the filmmaking process in the construction of a subjectivity that is always relational and contingent. Framed by a number of essayistic works that make use of the epistle - the filmed correspondences of Jose Luis Guerin, Jonas Mekas, Fernando Eimbcke and So Yong Kim (2009-11), Chantal Akerman's News from Home (1977) and Ross McElwee's The Photographic Memory (2012) - this article discusses the process of making my film, Closer Than They Appear (Munro, 2016). I also draw on theories of epistolary transcendence of time and space (Naficy) and collective subjectivity (Braidotti). Through these films I propose the letter film to be a transformative process that shifts the filmmaker's subjectivity towards a more collective and relational position through the act of address.","PeriodicalId":38663,"journal":{"name":"New Cinemas","volume":"15 1","pages":"81-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/NCIN.15.1.81_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46002523","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}
New CinemasPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1386/NCIN.15.1.63_1
Fátima Chinita
{"title":"Varda’s recycling of life in Les plages d’Agnès: Self-representational metacinema as a discourse on creatorship","authors":"Fátima Chinita","doi":"10.1386/NCIN.15.1.63_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NCIN.15.1.63_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38663,"journal":{"name":"New Cinemas","volume":"15 1","pages":"63-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44298081","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}
New CinemasPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1386/NCIN.15.1.97_1
Igor Krstić
{"title":"A foreigner in one’s own tongue: Jonas Mekas, minor cinema and the philosophy of autobiographical documentary","authors":"Igor Krstić","doi":"10.1386/NCIN.15.1.97_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NCIN.15.1.97_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38663,"journal":{"name":"New Cinemas","volume":"15 1","pages":"97-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/NCIN.15.1.97_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49323178","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}
New CinemasPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1386/NCIN.15.1.33_1
R. Cavallini
{"title":"Staging thought: The essay film and the consciousness of cinema","authors":"R. Cavallini","doi":"10.1386/NCIN.15.1.33_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NCIN.15.1.33_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38663,"journal":{"name":"New Cinemas","volume":"15 1","pages":"33-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/NCIN.15.1.33_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43576197","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}
New CinemasPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1386/NCIN.15.1.49_1
Patrick Tarrant
{"title":"The Serial Portrait and Coeval Time on the Cable Car Up Manakamana Mountain","authors":"Patrick Tarrant","doi":"10.1386/NCIN.15.1.49_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NCIN.15.1.49_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that by framing Manakamana (Spray and Velez, 2013) as a serial portrait, we illuminate the ways that the film situates its Nepalese cable car riders, its American filmmakers and its largely western spectators in an emergent and shared time, and that the sequencing of human subjects that is central to this serial portrait posits an alternative to that once ubiquitous tendency to cast non-western subjects into a time that is past. In 1983’s Time And The Other, Johannes Fabian decried the discursive and ideological effects of denying ethnographic subjects their coevalness, but in Manakamana’s formal experimentation and its strategic deployment of cinematic homologies and spiritual allegories, a reflexivity emerges to reframe the way representations of people can be organized in time.","PeriodicalId":38663,"journal":{"name":"New Cinemas","volume":"15 1","pages":"49-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45486915","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}
New CinemasPub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1386/ncin.14.2.143_1
Samantha Colling
{"title":"The pleasures of muscular bonding in Bring It On and Pitch Perfect","authors":"Samantha Colling","doi":"10.1386/ncin.14.2.143_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin.14.2.143_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38663,"journal":{"name":"New Cinemas","volume":"58 3 1","pages":"143-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66739947","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}
New CinemasPub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1386/ncin.14.2.157_1
María Seijo-Richart
{"title":"The pleasure of repetition: The Bombay cinema and the South American telenovela","authors":"María Seijo-Richart","doi":"10.1386/ncin.14.2.157_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin.14.2.157_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38663,"journal":{"name":"New Cinemas","volume":"14 1","pages":"157-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66740254","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}