{"title":"Of fleas and Parasite: unpacking class and space in Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite","authors":"Bonnie Tilland, Beth Tsai","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2246349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2246349","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that amidst the hype of Parasite fever, it is instructive to revisit Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) in order to better understand the director’s aesthetic and signatures. Not on...","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diegetic existence: transmedia instauration in artists’ cinema","authors":"Jade de Cock de Rameyen","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2252306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2252306","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages with differences of experiences generated by transmedia migration of filmic content in artist-filmmaker Albert Serra’s two-channel installation Personalien and feature film Lib...","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Throwing shows against the wall and hoping for the best”: NBC, quality, and the Emmy race for Outstanding Drama Series in the 2010s","authors":"Elizabeth Walters","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2257819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2257819","url":null,"abstract":"In 1999, The Sopranos (HBO, 1999–2007) was the first-ever nominee from premium or basic cable in the Primetime Emmys’ Outstanding Drama Series category, a slate annually dominated by broadcast dram...","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The limitation of the bottle episode: Hegel in Community","authors":"Ryan Engley","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2246348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2246348","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, television has undergone an artistic and critical reevaluation. This essay aims to add to the study of television aesthetics by examining a form particular to American television: the bottle episode. The bottle episode first arose as a solution to the budgeting ‘bottlenecks’ experienced by U.S. television series in the 1950s and 60s. I find that this form presents a logic of the limit, establishing a formal, narrative, and existential aesthetic that is unique to television. Far from simply being cheap TV, a close study of the bottle episode shows that what began as a financially necessary production format works through the dialectical method of thought that unfurls in G.W.F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. I turn to NBC’s Community (2009–15), a series replete with bottle episodes, to show that by pushing through bottled confinement, the new and transformative take place. Ultimately, I argue that bottle episodes show how dynamic collectivity forms through isolation.","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47704127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconsidering remarriage: Stanley Cavell and the vicissitudes of genre","authors":"Kyle Barrowman","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2246350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2246350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, Stanley Cavell has become one of the canonical reference points for film scholars. In particular, his work on ‘comedies of remarriage’ has become one of the most fertile arenas of contemporary scholarship in film studies. However, Cavell’s work on remarriage comedy has rarely been subjected to criticism. For the most part, scholars interested in Cavell’s work on remarriage comedy have either sought to elaborate on his readings of the seven principal films which for him make up the core of the genre, or they have sought to expand the genre by incorporating additional classical or contemporary Hollywood romantic comedies. In this article, I reconsider Cavell’s canonical work on the subject, and critique and provide alternatives to what are to my mind the most pressing problems in Cavell’s conception of remarriage comedy, problems which fall into three broad categories: theoretical problems, historical problems, and critical problems. In so doing, I hope to provide better theoretical models, broader historical understanding, and more nuanced criticism vis-à-vis the genre of remarriage comedy in and beyond classical Hollywood cinema.","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48107482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George Miller’s “old-fashioned Hollywood studio”: corporate authorship at Kennedy Miller, 1981–1991","authors":"James Douglas","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2246351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2246351","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Australia’s George Miller, director of the Mad Max films and others, has an international reputation as a singular creative force. But this reputation overlooks key facts about Miller’s career and working methods, including his co-founding and stewardship of the production company Kennedy Miller (now Kennedy Miller Mitchell), which organized production along collaborative and collective lines. In this article, I undertake an organizational analysis of Kennedy Miller from 1981 to 1991, the period that led Australian film scholars to describe the firm as akin to a classical Hollywood studio operation. I argue that just as we recognize classical Hollywood studios as possessing a collective ‘genius’ that delimits individual claims to authorship, so should we understand Kennedy Miller in this period as possessing a corporate authorship over its film and television production. I locate this strong ‘house’ identity in the firm’s organizational structure, its distinctive culture of ‘comprehensivism’, its collaborative creative procedures, and in the discourses of publicity and critical reception that surrounded its output. I conclude by contending that this understanding of Kennedy Miller’s corporate authorship requires that we reframe our understanding of Miller’s practice to account for his role in this collaborative structure.","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49330156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Film bleu: the development of cinematic aesthetics and disavowal of cultural traditions in Hong Kong crime cinema","authors":"Yi Sun","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2246353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2246353","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay revisits a period (from the early 1980s to early 2000s) in the history of Hong Kong film through the perspective of ‘film bleu’ and traces a brief and roughly chronological history of Hong Kong film bleu. In the early stages of the development of the film bleu aesthetic in local cinema, red was nearly as prominent as blue, whereas the blue–red scheme has largely been replaced by a monochromatic blue tone in more recent ‘bluish’ films. This essay reveals how a blue–red color and lighting scheme gradually gave way to a blue-dominated one and how blue was developed as a generic and cinematic convention in Hong Kong crime films. It propounds that, in addition to efforts to develop idiosyncratic generic conventions, the film bleu aesthetic in post-Handover Hong Kong cinema reflects a detached attitude toward and even a disavowal of both contemporary and traditional Chinese cultures.","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43099749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hollywood’s embassies: how movie theaters projected American power around the world","authors":"M. Gibson","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2239517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2239517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45318182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perplexing plots: popular storytelling and the poetics of murder","authors":"Harrison Whitaker","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2239514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2239514","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45146142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Have you got any soul?’: reinterpreting High Fidelity’s relationship to Black cultural production","authors":"A. Vesey","doi":"10.1080/17400309.2023.2220635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2023.2220635","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article uses textual and discourse analysis to examine the interpersonal dynamic between Rob and Cherise in High Fidelity (Hulu 2020), two Black female characters at the center of a gender- and race-flipped TV remake of Nick Hornby’s (1995) novel and Stephen Frears’s (2000) film. It centers Cherise in the frame by examining how she opposes her secondary status as a supporting character with her undervalued critical and creative acumen, traits she shares with her white male literary and cinematic counterparts but activates differently as a Black woman. It situates Cherise and actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s interpretation of the source material through the practice of cover singing. Though covers are often dismissed as unoriginal, reinterpretation is particularly useful for Black female performers who transform other peoples’ songs as a tactic against artistic marginalization, one that allows them to critique institutional racism and sexism. This acuity implicates the media industries’ limited imagination for Black female characters and the performers who bring them to life. Thus, Cherise and Randolph reveal the work ahead to bring Black female characters into focus by embellishing the margins of a story and challenging an adaptation process that was not designed to center them.","PeriodicalId":43549,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Film and Television Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43732521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}