Asako I & II portrays the internal conflict of letting the demands of the Other dictate one’s own decisions. This article focuses on the film’s representation of two psychoanalytic concepts: superego, the part of the psyche that enforces adherence to the social order, and desire, a fundamental state of lack where an indescribable lost object is supplemented by empirical objects. This article analyzes certain sequences to reveal how Asako, the film’s protagonist, lets herself be dominated by the demands of the Other. Ultimately, the quest to either obey her superego or realize her desire proves unfulfilling.
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Review of: Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD, D. A. Miller (2021)New York: Columbia University Press, 264 pp., ISBN: 9780231195591 (pbk), $25.00, ISBN: 9780231195584 (hbk), $95.00, ISBN: 9780231551397 (ebk), $24.99
{"title":"Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD, D. A. Miller (2021)","authors":"Nathan Trieste","doi":"10.1386/fm_00236_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00236_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD, D. A. Miller (2021)New York: Columbia University Press, 264 pp., ISBN: 9780231195591 (pbk), $25.00, ISBN: 9780231195584 (hbk), $95.00, ISBN: 9780231551397 (ebk), $24.99","PeriodicalId":272564,"journal":{"name":"Film Matters","volume":"88 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120886075","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}
Connor David Holland, Peyton Holland, Kayleigh Penny, Dan Verley, Logan Wells
Do the Right Thing (1989)USADirected by Spike Lee Runtime 120 minutes Blu-ray USA, 2019Produced and Distributed by The Criterion Collection (region A/1)
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This video essay explores Tarkovsky’s 1979 sci-fi classic, Stalker, through the lens of the philosophical concept of hauntology. Hauntology refers to the potential for dead or dying ideals to return and haunt the cultural ethos of subsequent generations. This essay intersperses scenes from the film with Soviet-era propaganda footage to highlight the visual discord between Stalker’s post-apocalyptic, alternate reality, and the illusory, utopian future the USSR failed to manifest. By melding the two forms of media together, the essay draws a causal line from past to future, and from aspiration to intergenerational trauma.
{"title":"Ghosts of Past/Graves of Future","authors":"Ben Dowd","doi":"10.1386/fm_00232_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00232_7","url":null,"abstract":"This video essay explores Tarkovsky’s 1979 sci-fi classic, Stalker, through the lens of the philosophical concept of hauntology. Hauntology refers to the potential for dead or dying ideals to return and haunt the cultural ethos of subsequent generations. This essay intersperses\u0000 scenes from the film with Soviet-era propaganda footage to highlight the visual discord between Stalker’s post-apocalyptic, alternate reality, and the illusory, utopian future the USSR failed to manifest. By melding the two forms of media together, the essay draws a causal line\u0000 from past to future, and from aspiration to intergenerational trauma.","PeriodicalId":272564,"journal":{"name":"Film Matters","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130058840","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}
Raoul Peck’s film I Am Not Your Negro is based on a book that James Baldwin never got the chance to finish before his death in 1987. Subsequent to the release of I Am Not Your Negro in 2017, multiple critics claimed to experience a connection to or understanding of Baldwin after watching the film, even though he did not actively participate in its creation. This article aims to explain this reception through the examination of the psychological process of projection and the evocation of empathy through art.
{"title":"Empathizing with James Baldwin in I Am Not Your Negro","authors":"Emily Heiser","doi":"10.1386/fm_00228_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00228_7","url":null,"abstract":"Raoul Peck’s film I Am Not Your Negro is based on a book that James Baldwin never got the chance to finish before his death in 1987. Subsequent to the release of I Am Not Your Negro in 2017, multiple critics claimed to experience a connection to or understanding\u0000 of Baldwin after watching the film, even though he did not actively participate in its creation. This article aims to explain this reception through the examination of the psychological process of projection and the evocation of empathy through art.","PeriodicalId":272564,"journal":{"name":"Film Matters","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122103016","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}
This article uses Brechtian film theory to argue that The Journals of Knud Rasmussen achieves a degree of cinematic orality borne from Inuit oral culture. Directors Cohn and Kunuk use Brechtian techniques to create a distance between the viewer and the film that allows us to understand The Journals as a story being told to us, a cultural expression borne from a specific context. The continued reflexive telling of stories within the film means that viewers are invited into the story circle; the film is no longer a singularly immersive experience, but rather a dynamic expression of culture, with the filmmaker acting as storyteller.
{"title":"Brechtian Orality in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen","authors":"S. Amicucci","doi":"10.1386/fm_00226_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00226_7","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses Brechtian film theory to argue that The Journals of Knud Rasmussen achieves a degree of cinematic orality borne from Inuit oral culture. Directors Cohn and Kunuk use Brechtian techniques to create a distance between the viewer and the film that allows us to\u0000 understand The Journals as a story being told to us, a cultural expression borne from a specific context. The continued reflexive telling of stories within the film means that viewers are invited into the story circle; the film is no longer a singularly immersive experience, but rather\u0000 a dynamic expression of culture, with the filmmaker acting as storyteller.","PeriodicalId":272564,"journal":{"name":"Film Matters","volume":"329 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123705785","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}
The Princess Bride (1987)USADirected by Rob Reiner Runtime 98 minutes Blu-ray USA, 2018Produced and Distributed by The Criterion Collection (region A/1)
{"title":"The Princess Bride in Four Frames","authors":"K. Baker, M. Beane, Georgia Boggs","doi":"10.1386/fm_00241_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00241_4","url":null,"abstract":"The Princess Bride (1987)USADirected by Rob Reiner Runtime 98 minutes Blu-ray USA, 2018Produced and Distributed by The Criterion Collection (region A/1)","PeriodicalId":272564,"journal":{"name":"Film Matters","volume":"os-53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127791679","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}
This article discusses the Australian television drama, Cleverman, a show that blends together science fiction, conventions of the superhero genre, and influences from Indigenous storytelling to yield an honest critique of modern Australian politics. Tackling Australia’s documented history of Indigenous maltreatment while weaving in elements of the Dreaming, the article dissects how Cleverman depicts the legacy of intercultural and intergenerational trauma inflicted upon Indigenous populations, provoking a discourse on how government initiatives continue to have serious, negative repercussions on marginalized communities.
{"title":"Two Worlds Combined: How Cleverman (2016-2017) Reimagines Indigenous Storytelling","authors":"Jade Courchesne","doi":"10.1386/fm_00227_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00227_7","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the Australian television drama, Cleverman, a show that blends together science fiction, conventions of the superhero genre, and influences from Indigenous storytelling to yield an honest critique of modern Australian politics. Tackling Australia’s\u0000 documented history of Indigenous maltreatment while weaving in elements of the Dreaming, the article dissects how Cleverman depicts the legacy of intercultural and intergenerational trauma inflicted upon Indigenous populations, provoking a discourse on how government initiatives continue\u0000 to have serious, negative repercussions on marginalized communities.","PeriodicalId":272564,"journal":{"name":"Film Matters","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131824650","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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