{"title":"Modi vs. Wild: Celebritized Politics and the Mediations of a Spiritual Strongman","authors":"Swapnil Rai","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"4 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140516525","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":"As (Un)Seen from Space: Soviet Collapse and the Unwatchable in Andrei Ujică's Out of the Present","authors":"Daniel P. Schwartz","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919192","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: Andrei Ujică's 1995 documentary Out of the Present tells the story of Sergei Krikalev, the last Soviet cosmonaut, who was stranded aboard the Mir space station from May 18, 1991, to March 25, 1992. He was thus one of two former Soviet citizens to watch the collapse of the USSR from space. Through a comparison of Out of the Present with Theo Anthony's 2021 documentary All Light, Everywhere , this article examines the conditions, processes, and contradictions of recording and observing the present from a cosmic perspective. This analysis is performed through the critical frameworks of the unwatchable, which explore the limits of visibility in visual media. My interpretation of Out of the Present contributes to the discourse on the unwatchable by introducing the problem of the political subject and the way in which the political determining of the eye governs the field of watchability.","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140522663","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":"\"Look at My African American\": On Authoritarian Populism, Blackness, and Celebrity","authors":"Brandy Monk-Payton","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919198","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"8 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140525780","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":"Watching News in Public: The Rituals and Responses of Newsreel Theater Audiences","authors":"Michael Stamm","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919193","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: From roughly 1930 to 1950, newsreel theaters played important roles in urban and film cultures. These small (200- to 600-seat) theaters showed hour-long loops of news that patrons could drop into from morning to midnight. Some aspects of the newsreel theater experience extended the rituals of nickelodeon spectatorship of earlier decades, and others predated the post–World War II development of television news consumption. Newsreel theaters allowed patrons to pass the time watching motion picture news, and they became politically charged spaces offering ways for people to watch and react vocally to the news in public as members of groups.","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"63 3-4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140523726","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":"Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II by Denise Khor (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140522139","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":"Playing at a Distance: Borderlands of Video Game Aesthetic by Sonia Fizek (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"26 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140525507","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":"Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address by Matthew H. Brown (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cj.2024.a919204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a919204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511410,"journal":{"name":"JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140519745","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}