Cinema journalPub Date : 2018-07-28DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2018.0064
T. Goldman
{"title":"The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism ed. by Jonathan Kahana, and: Essays on the Essay Film eds. by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan (review)","authors":"T. Goldman","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2018.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2018.0064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"33 1","pages":"161 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88434862","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}
Cinema journalPub Date : 2018-07-28DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2018.0058
Simone A. Browne
{"title":"For Maalik, Naz, Brittany, & Alexis; or, On Loving Black People as a Liberatory Practice","authors":"Simone A. Browne","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2018.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2018.0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"69 1","pages":"138 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72908267","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}
Cinema journalPub Date : 2018-07-28DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2018.0057
Julie Reid
{"title":"Decolonizing Education and Research by Countering the Myths We Live By","authors":"Julie Reid","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2018.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2018.0057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"132 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82576681","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}
Cinema journalPub Date : 2018-07-28DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2018.0063
C. Baker
{"title":"Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film by Michael Boyce Gillespie (review)","authors":"C. Baker","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2018.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2018.0063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"26 1 1","pages":"158 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91296242","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}
Cinema journalPub Date : 2018-07-28DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2018.0049
C. Birks
{"title":"Objectivity, Speculative Realism, and the Cinematic Apparatus","authors":"C. Birks","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2018.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2018.0049","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that speculative realism can learn from film theory, especially Jean-Louis Baudry's apparatus theory. Two films—Tectonics (Peter Bo Rappmund, 2012) and Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)—are analyzed as calling attention to a reality beyond the human while simultaneously exposing cinema's limited ability to represent that reality. These self-reflexive gestures suggest that humans, like films, are implicated in a particular way of seeing from which they cannot escape. But this need not condemn us to a hopeless anthropocentrism, as by interrogating the limits of these perspectives we might make contact with the unrepresentable outside of thought.","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"24 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84502633","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}
Cinema journalPub Date : 2018-05-03DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2018.0030
Kaveh Askari
{"title":"Eastern Boys and Failed Heroes: Iranian Cinema in the World’s Orbit","authors":"Kaveh Askari","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2018.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2018.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article revisits the foundational events of 1969, an auspicious year for prerevolutionary Iranian cinema, and the early career of one of its main directors, Masoud Kimiai. It examines two of his orphan projects, a sponsored film for adolescents and a major Iran-Hollywood collaboration, to suggest an alternative historiography of Iranian cinema during a shift toward greater ambition for its commercial films and increased institutional support for its new wave. These forgotten works call for a method, in contrast to the constricting histories of a handful of groundbreaking features, that attends to this period’s creative volatility, its ambivalent collaborations, and its competing models of globalized cinema.","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"29 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85291466","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}
Cinema journalPub Date : 2018-05-03DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2018.0033
Jihoon Kim
{"title":"Expressing Duration with Digital Micromanipulations: Digital Experimental Documentaries of James Benning, Sharon Lockhart, and Thom Andersen","authors":"Jihoon Kim","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2018.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2018.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Countering Babette Mangolte’s and D. N. Rodowick’s assertion that it is difficult to express duration in digital cinema, this article argues that an array of micro-level manipulations of the lens-based image with digital technology—color correction, digital dissolve, and extreme slow motion, all of which I call “digital micromanipulations”—are capable of deepening the presentation and exploration of cinematic duration and temporality. Drawing on the recent digital films of James Benning, Sharon Lockhart, and Thom Andersen, I demonstrate that the directors’ different uses of digital micromanipulations should be viewed as extending their experimental approaches to documentary time and aesthetics in the celluloid-based cinema.","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"101 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91091462","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}