{"title":"Her (Spike Jonze, 2013): Digital Romance and Post-cinema","authors":"C. Gelly","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.22.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.22.3","url":null,"abstract":"Spike Jonze's film stages our contemporary relation to the digital through a love story between Theodore Twombly, the film's main character, and an AI named Samantha, appearing as an operating system on a digital interface but devoid of any physical incarnation. This story explores how the digital realm, because it eludes filmic representation, comes to question the very ontology of cinema as rooted in outer reality. As such it opens the possibility of post-cinema, and calls for a renewal of conceptions of spectatorship in relation to this possibility, but without defining this new relation to the filmic medium that digital revolution makes necessary.","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79553526","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":"“I tell, therefore you are”: Identity in The Handmaid’s Tale. A comparison between the novel and the series","authors":"Saartje Gobyn","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.22.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.22.5","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares the narrative representation, and more specifically the identity (de-) construction, of the main character in the novel The Handmaid's Tale and in the first season of the eponymous series. To do so, I draw on the concepts of transmedial narratology as elaborated by Thon (2015, 2016) and Ryan (2014), that stresses that some narratological concepts originally applied to literary texts (as for example storyworlds, characters, the distinction story/discourse) are useful to analyze narrative representations in other media as well. One of the principal means in literature to represent the inner world of a character is the interior monologue. How is the interior monologue used in both the novel and the series? How does this use influence the plot in both media? And does the medium in any way determine the use of the interior monologue? Furthermore, I connect the narrative representation of the main character to the principle of remediation and demonstrate that her portrayal is inextricably linked to the medium in both series and novel.","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75473515","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":"Harry Potter and the Battle of Adaptation","authors":"David Goldie","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.22.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.22.7","url":null,"abstract":"At the beginning of her 2007 article, \"Adapting Children's Literature\", Deborah Cartmell encouraged us to remember the complementarity and mutual admiration that should exist between cinema and literature as two narrative arts. At this time, adaptation theorists such as Brian McFarlane and Linda Hutcheon had done much to temper an oppositional point of view when comparing film and literature. Seeking to find other ways of studying adaptations than merely by the question of fidelity, they had argued strongly for intertextual analysis. Cartmell thus supported this approach to adaptation studies at the beginning of the article, but she quickly recognized that there still was a degree of tension between cinema and literature, especially from the point of view of the audience. Framing her own case studies in the metaphorical context of a 'battle' between the arts, she stated that the winner was the one which appeared dominant on screen. Cartmell seemed to argue that children's literature was a particular field in this respect since fidelity remained especially important to this audience. Among her examples she quoted the case of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), deciding that, here, literature had won. This may not be so sure. This contribution aims to reconsider Cartmell's evaluation of this film, as well as to examine how the discussion of fidelity discourse has developed in recent years. We will ask if the Harry Potter (2001-11) series invites us to think about adaptation differently. We will also question the validity of the 'battle' notion in this case and consider what developments Henry Jenkins' 2006 concept of 'transmedia storytelling' has brought to the debate since.","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"2 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87512871","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 Late Films of Jiří Menzel: The Broken Spell of Nostalgia and Melancholy Heroes in I Served the English King (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále, 2006) and Skirt Chasers (Donšajni, 2013)","authors":"Lubomír Ptáček","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75928123","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 Melancholy of Desire in Buñuel’s ‘That Obscure Object of Desire’ and Fassbinder’s ‘I Only Want You to Love Me’","authors":"D. Sebin","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76854175","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":"Melancholy, between Medical Science and Cinematography","authors":"Lucia Lupea","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84772679","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":"Depression and Desynchronization of Temporal Relation in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and Melancholia","authors":"Justin Kao","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73005772","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":"Melancholia as Destinerrance. On Resolution in Discontinuity and an Art That Could Come After Evil","authors":"Aura Poenar","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91147635","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":"Melancholic Memory and Mourning Images: Death’s Resistance to Representation in Abbas Kiarostami’s Films","authors":"Ana-Sânziana Ghelase","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"24 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91294838","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}