{"title":"Toward a Feminist Montage: Reading for the Cut in Ana Mendieta's Sweating Blood","authors":"Carrie Reese","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919191","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: This article develops an alternate concept of the filmic cut with influences from both montage theory and feminist film history. Deriving this alternate concept of the cut from Ana Mendieta's moving image work, I examine Sweating Blood (1973) as it couples the cut with an aesthetic violence, producing a version of the cut that contributes to a feminist discourse on filmic manipulation, intermedia, and montage. This theory of the cut is informed not only by Mendieta but also by those who have inspired alternate ways of thinking about \"the cut,\" including Yoko Ono, Maggie Nelson, Sergei Eisenstein, and Luis Buñuel.","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140515846","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":"Populist Iconicity: The Contradictions of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a Political Celebrity","authors":"Julia Sonnevend","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"58 5-6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140517258","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":"Populist Fandoms and Anti-fandoms: Politics, Polarization, and Celebritization in Turkey","authors":"Şebnem Baran","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"139 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140525247","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":"Baked In: Cooking and Cannabis in Viceland","authors":"Tasha Oren","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919190","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: This article examines Viceland's rise and fall through its pot-friendly food programming. Vice's wielding of cooking and cannabis as ideal expressions of its masculine, countercultural brand is analyzed here through intersecting histories of the evolving cultural status of cannabis, food television's generic conventions, and Vice Media's own problematic corporate history. This situated reading demonstrates how TV can weave emerging politics into the fabric of popular culture precisely through its most procedurally familiar forms. Yet Viceland's history and contrived TV environment also produce a generative ambiguity that complicates the programs' political engagement.","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"48 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140517233","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":"In Focus Introduction: The Celebritization of Politics in Global Media Culture","authors":"Swapnil Rai, Brandy Monk-Payton","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"29 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140517618","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":"Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940–1960) by Salma Siddique (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"265 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140521212","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":"From Military Prestige to Fragmented Prestige: Jair Bolsonaro and Authoritarian Populism in Brazil","authors":"Joseph Straubhaar","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140516735","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":"\"He Is a Total Sweetheart\": UK Reality TV and Technologies of Populist Publicity","authors":"Francesca Sobande","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"27 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140518440","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 Manchukuo Film Association and Its Afterlives: Animated Filmmaking in Wartime and Postwar Peking","authors":"Daisy Yan Du","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919194","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: Scholarship on the Manchukuo Film Association (Manying) has largely attended to documentaries, newsreels, and live-action films featuring Li Xianglan, neglecting animation. This article examines the animated film-making activities of the North China Film Company, a branch of Manying located in wartime Peking, by focusing on Chinese animator Liang Jin and a few Japanese animators such as Asada Isamu and Onozawa Wataru. With an animated filmmaking philosophy of territorialization and localization, Manying nonetheless created a de-territorialized world that enabled it to live multiple afterlives in socialist cinema, despite the institutional efforts to erase it from the history of Chinese cinema.","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"87 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140525430","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":"Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry by Chihab El Khachab (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"17 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140524667","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}