Existing academic discourse surrounding pioneering Blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971), regularly frames the titular character as the forerunner of an eventual collection of aggressive, hypersexual, and macho Black heroes. These texts accordingly examine Sweetback’s characterization with limited nuance, and therefore overlook the film’s more complex contentual and formal engagement with masculinity and power. Via close analysis of the film and marketing materials, I propose that Sweetback’s macho behavior can be re-contextualized via attention to his repeated displays of passivity, which jointly signal the film’s engagement with notions of “ideal” Black masculinity, generational oppression, and trauma.
现有的学术讨论围绕着黑人剥削的先驱电影，Sweet Sweetback 's baadasssass Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)，经常把这个名义上的角色塑造成最终集合了一群好斗的、性欲过剩的、有男子气概的黑人英雄的先驱。这些文本相应地以有限的细微差别审视了Sweetback的性格特征，因此忽略了电影更复杂的内容和对男性气质和权力的正式参与。通过对电影和营销材料的仔细分析，我提出Sweetback的男子气概行为可以通过关注他反复表现的被动来重新语境化，这共同表明了电影与“理想”黑人男子气概、代际压迫和创伤的概念的接触。
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Review of: Ode to Valley Girl (1983) Valley Girl (1983) USA Director Martha Coolidge Runtime 99 minutes
回顾:《山谷女孩颂》(1983)《山谷女孩》(1983)美国导演玛莎·柯立芝时长99分钟
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This article explores how representation of psychosis may perpetuate stereotypes that negatively affect society’s attitude toward mental health. To investigate this premise an extensive range of secondary research from the fields of film, psychiatry, and psychology is applied to a textual film analysis of Joker (2019). The broader themes in Joker mimic many real-life concerns; for example, gun laws serve as a reminder of how dangerous inaccurate representation might be when mass shootings are dismissed as deeds of the “mad” rather than the “bad.”
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Review of: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: Life Through Googly Eyes Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) USA Director Dean Fleischer Camp Runtime 90 minutes
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Review of: The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century After The World Viewed, David LaRocca, ed. (2020) New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 336 pp., ISBN: 9781501349164 (hbk), $150.00, ISBN: 9781501384073 (pbk), $39.95
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Review of: The Plague Dogs (1982) UK & USA Director Martin Rosen Runtime 85 minutes theatrical/103 minutes extended Blu-ray USA, 2019 Distributed by Shout Factory (region A/1)
{"title":"Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge, Joseph McBride (2021)","authors":"Zoe Garden","doi":"10.1386/fm_00261_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00261_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge, Joseph McBride (2021)\u0000 New York: Columbia University Press, 680 pp.,\u0000 ISBN: 9780231201469 (hbk), $40.00","PeriodicalId":272564,"journal":{"name":"Film Matters","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122532431","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}
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