{"title":"American Ethnographic Cinema and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn By Scott Macdonald. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013","authors":"M. Smith","doi":"10.3138/CJFS.23.2.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJFS.23.2.135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41748,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Film Studies-Revue Canadienne d Etudes Cinematographiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90611462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ciné-Forum: Top-Ten Film History","authors":"Blaine Allan","doi":"10.3138/cjfs.23.2.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjfs.23.2.115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41748,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Film Studies-Revue Canadienne d Etudes Cinematographiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82682851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article studies intermedial combinations that characterized Radio-Canada’s early 1950’s television plays, by analyzing the works of three tv writers mostly known for their non-television caree...
{"title":"Le téléthéâtre québécois des premiers temps : croisements médiatiques (Hubert Aquin, Claude Jutra, Marcel Dubé et Louis-Georges Carrier)","authors":"François Harvey","doi":"10.3138/CJFS.23.2.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJFS.23.2.26","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies intermedial combinations that characterized Radio-Canada’s early 1950’s television plays, by analyzing the works of three tv writers mostly known for their non-television caree...","PeriodicalId":41748,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Film Studies-Revue Canadienne d Etudes Cinematographiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69684608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For the last 50 years, it has been common to write about how Quebec cinema was born around the 1960s with cinema direct. To do so, however, is to neglect the 60 preceding years and the important pi...
{"title":"Émergence de la critique de cinéma dans la presse populaire québécoise","authors":"Germain Laçasse, Hubert Sabino","doi":"10.3138/cjfs.23.2.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjfs.23.2.47","url":null,"abstract":"For the last 50 years, it has been common to write about how Quebec cinema was born around the 1960s with cinema direct. To do so, however, is to neglect the 60 preceding years and the important pi...","PeriodicalId":41748,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Film Studies-Revue Canadienne d Etudes Cinematographiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69684678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Canadian Cinema since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World By David L. Pike Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012","authors":"A. Burke","doi":"10.3138/CJFS.23.2.130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJFS.23.2.130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41748,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Film Studies-Revue Canadienne d Etudes Cinematographiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83173341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1979-99: Authorship and Context II By Leighton Grist New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013","authors":"Michael Meneghetti","doi":"10.3138/CJFS.23.2.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/CJFS.23.2.138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41748,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Film Studies-Revue Canadienne d Etudes Cinematographiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80144847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pour Un Cinéma Canadien-Français, Un Vrai : L'aventure Du Studio Gratien Gélinas et De la Dame Aux Camélias","authors":"L. Pelletier","doi":"10.3138/cjfs.23.2.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjfs.23.2.70","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41748,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Film Studies-Revue Canadienne d Etudes Cinematographiques","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86829330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The image of a motionless spectator seated before a fixed screen once formed an unquestioned axiom of most film theory and history, but few today would see this as the only or even dominant model of spectatorship. The proliferation of mobile screens in the digital age, along with several decades of research into early forms of peripatetic spectatorship (the flâneur, the detective, pre-cinematic forms of urban spectacle, etc.), have attuned film scholars to other, more dynamic modalities of film reception. This attention to mobile audiences has been particularly pronounced in research on exhibitions. In part-and particularly in scholarship focused on film and video installations-the meeting of film and exhibition culture might appear as a new phenomenon. Dominique Paini thus famously argued that the migration of experimental film into galleries since the 1980s had liberated cinema audiences from their "frontal captivity," reviving the experience of the 19th-century flâneur and making the spectator-now free to move through the exhibition at his or her own tempo-an active contributor to the filmic experience.1 But while some scholars have insisted on the unprecedented nature of film's recent presence in the museum,2 other film historians have documented a much longer history of the multiple imbrications between film, museums, and exhibitions.' As historians of early cinema have argued, moreover, the cinema itself was no less influenced, in its very emergence, by 19lh-century exhibition culture. While this included popular forms such as vaudeville and wax museums, it also included "higher" forms such as the universal exhibitions which, as Tom Gunning has shown, helped to inculcate a mode of astonished spectatorship that would help to set the stage, alongside variety culture and scientific illustrations, for the cinema of attractions.As showcases for industrial progress, the universal exhibitions, with their emphasis on novelty and their future orientation, clearly differed from the institution of the museum as a safeguard of high culture and heritage. Rather than taking objects out of circulation to imbue them with aesthetic value, universal exhibitions displayed objects as prototypes for capitalist circulation. This futureoriented status helps to explain why, with few exceptions, one finds no avantgarde campaign against trade and technology exhibitions remotely comparable to the modernist critiques of the museum.5 On the contrary, avant-garde artists from Hans Richter to Herbert Bayer to El Lissitzky readily collaborated with exhibitions and industrial fairs, where they found ample opportunities to experiment with new forms of dynamic and kinetic reception.6 On account of this emphasis on novelty and dynamism, technology and trade exhibitions have long functioned as important arenas for the elaboration of more mobile forms of filmic reception. In this article, I want to examine some of the imbrications between film and exhibitions conceived as two t
一个一动不动的观众坐在固定的屏幕前,这一形象曾经是大多数电影理论和历史上不容置疑的公理,但今天很少有人会认为这是唯一的,甚至是占主导地位的观影模式。数字时代移动屏幕的激增,以及几十年来对早期四处观看形式(fl徘徊者、侦探、城市奇观的电影前形式等)的研究,使电影学者适应了其他更动态的电影接受方式。这种对流动观众的关注在展览研究中尤为明显。在某种程度上,尤其是在关注电影和录像装置的学术研究中,电影和展览文化的结合可能会作为一种新现象出现。因此,多米尼克·潘尼(Dominique Paini)提出了一个著名的观点,即自20世纪80年代以来,实验电影向画廊的迁移将电影观众从“正面囚禁”中解放出来,恢复了19世纪fl的体验,并使观众——现在可以自由地按照自己的节奏在展览中移动——成为电影体验的积极贡献者但是,尽管一些学者坚持认为,电影最近在博物馆中的存在是前所未有的,但另外两位电影史学家却记录了电影、博物馆和展览之间多重联系的更悠久的历史。”此外,正如研究早期电影的历史学家所认为的那样,电影本身在其出现之初也同样受到19世纪展览文化的影响。虽然这包括流行的形式,如歌舞杂耍和蜡像馆,它也包括“更高”的形式,如通用展览,如汤姆·甘宁所示,有助于灌输一种惊讶的观众模式,这将有助于为电影的吸引力奠定基础,与各种文化和科学插图一起。作为工业进步的展示,世界性的展览强调新奇和未来的方向,与作为高级文化和遗产保护的博物馆制度明显不同。世界性的展览不是把物品从流通中取出来赋予它们审美价值,而是把物品作为资本主义流通的原型来展示。这种面向未来的地位有助于解释为什么除了少数例外,人们发现没有任何反对贸易和技术展览的前卫运动能与现代主义对博物馆的批评相提并论相反,从汉斯·里希特到赫伯特·拜耳再到埃尔·利西茨基等先锋派艺术家很乐意与展览和工业博览会合作,在那里他们发现了大量的机会来试验新形式的动态和动态接收由于这种对新颖性和活力的强调,技术和贸易展览长期以来一直是制定更具流动性的电影接受形式的重要场所。在这篇文章中,我想研究电影和展览之间的一些联系,这两种技术被认为是诱导和指导观众和消费者的运动。我将把注意力集中在20世纪20年代在德语世界发展起来的一种特定的电影类型:展览广告。我认为,尽管这些电影是作为特定展览的广告,但它们也通过不断变化的广告和广告观众模式进行了主题化和工作。从第一次世界大战之后开始,人们可以在维也纳、柏林和巴塞尔等城市找到许多宣传片,作为贸易和技术展览的广告。著名的例子包括Guido Seeber为1925年Kipho电影和摄影工业展览所做的广告,以及Richter的Die neue Wohnung(1930年),为巴塞尔的Werkbund建筑展览所做的广告。但是当时还有许多著名的动画师所做的广告,如Peter Eng, Hans Fischerkoesen和Walter Ruttmann。虽然这种广告在20世纪20年代的激增证明了展览对实验电影制作人的吸引力,但它们也应该被视为更广泛的制度因素的结果。…
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KIM'S VOYAGE TO ITALYIn September 2008, Mondo Kim's, the most well known of New York City's Kim's Video branches, located downtown on St. Marks Place in the East Village, posted a sign announcing that it would be closing and that it was looking for a new home for its rental collection:Kim's Video is offering a collection of approximately 55,000 films to institutions, schools, business owners, or individuals who can accommodate Kim's full line of film collection. The condition to accept this collection requires 3,000 sq. ft. of space, commitment to give access to Kim's members (charging minimum membership fee), and maintaining the collection. Although Kim's Video plans to close the rental department, the exclusive film collection should still be available to public [sic], especially film students and film lovers. Kim's deeply appreciates the kind support and wishes to maintain our rental department. Unfortunately, financial resources have rapidly declined to uphold Kim's service to Kim's lovers. We hope to find a sponsor who can make this collection available to those who have loved Kim's over the past two decades.1Despite relatively few stipulations and many offers to house the titles, the store's owner, Yongman Kim, had a surprisingly difficult time finding the right host for the store's videos. Mr. Kim approached likely suspects in New York City, such as the Film Forum and New York University's library, but for different reasons, none were willing to house the entire collection or able to meet the conditions requested in the post.As a bizarre and therefore ultimately appropriate ending to Mondo Kim's, an Italian graphic designer, Franca Pauli, drafted a successful proposal to move the collection to Salemi, a small town in Sicily. Much of Salemi was destroyed in an earthquake in 1968, and in recent years the town's mayor, Vittorio Sgarbi, had been trying to revitalize it through efforts to promote tourism. Sgarbi, a former art critic and television talk show host, famously announced his plans for "Project Earthquake" in 2008: earthquake-damaged houses in the ancient quarter could be purchased for one euro, provided the new homeowners renovated them to conform with Sicilian architecture. Obtaining Kim's collection seemed to complement the goals of Project Earthquake and promised to invigorate Salemi's culture and economy.In March 2009, local schoolchildren and artists lined up in Salemi's streets to form a human chain, transporting the videos along narrow roads from shipping containers into their new home in a former Jesuit college. The 55,000 VHS tapes and DVDs became the heart of plans for a major cultural revitalization project supervised by Sgarbi to rebuild the city and create a reputation as an "international city of independent cinema."2 Keeping with Kim's prerequisites, Sgarbi even extended an offer to house any former Kim's member in good standing who wished to visit. When the videos actually arrived in Salemi, however, they ended up sit
KIM的意大利之旅2008年9月,Mondo KIM’s,纽约市最著名的KIM’s Video分店,位于东村市中心的St. Marks Place,张贴了一个告示,宣布它将关闭,并正在为其出租的收藏寻找一个新家:KIM’s Video向机构、学校、企业主或个人提供约55,000部电影的收藏,他们可以容纳KIM的全部电影收藏。接受这些藏品的条件需要3000平方米。他还承诺向Kim的会员开放(收取最低会员费),并维护藏品。虽然Kim's Video计划关闭租赁部,但独家电影收藏仍应向公众开放,特别是电影学生和电影爱好者。Kim’s非常感谢大家的支持,并希望继续维持我们的租赁部门。不幸的是,财政资源迅速减少,无法维持金对他的情人的服务。我们希望找到一个赞助者,可以把这些收藏提供给那些在过去20年里一直爱着金的人。尽管规定相对较少,也有很多人提出要存放这些视频,但这家店的老板金永曼(Yongman Kim,音)却出乎意料地难以为这家店的视频找到合适的主人。金基宗接触了纽约市可能的嫌疑人,比如电影论坛(Film Forum)和纽约大学图书馆(New York University’s library),但出于不同的原因,没有一家愿意收藏全部藏品,也没有一家能够满足帖子中要求的条件。意大利平面设计师弗兰卡·泡利(Franca Pauli)起草了一份成功的提案,将该系列搬到西西里岛的小镇萨莱米(Salemi),作为蒙多·金(Mondo Kim)的怪诞结局,但最终还是恰如其分。萨莱米的大部分地区在1968年的一场地震中被摧毁,近年来,镇长维托里奥·斯加尔比(Vittorio Sgarbi)一直试图通过促进旅游业来振兴它。斯加尔比曾是一名艺术评论家和电视脱口秀主持人,他在2008年宣布了著名的“地震计划”计划:只需一欧元,就可以购买老城区被地震破坏的房屋,前提是新房主将其翻新成符合西西里建筑风格的房屋。获得金的收藏似乎是对“地震计划”目标的补充,并有望振兴萨莱米的文化和经济。2009年3月,当地的学生和艺术家们在萨莱米的街道上排成一排,组成一条人链,沿着狭窄的道路将录像带从集装箱运送到他们在一所前耶稣会学院的新家。这55000盘录像带和dvd成为了一项重大文化复兴计划的核心,该计划由斯加尔比监督,旨在重建这座城市,打造“国际独立电影城市”的声誉。遵照金正日的先决条件,斯加比甚至提出,任何有良好信誉的前金正日成员都可以访问。然而,当这些视频真正到达萨莱米时,它们却在这座历史建筑的盒子里放了好几年。镇上的黑手党成员参与了进来,另一位政治家希望保利将这些收藏品转移到比萨,以便在亚马逊上创建一个流媒体业务,保利拒绝了,退出了,计划似乎受到了阻碍在一次采访中,Pauli告诉我,2012年从政府那里获得了一大笔资助,使这个项目得以重新正式启动,她也得以回归这些视频正在被拆封,Pauli、Sgarbi和其他参与这个项目的人,从2013年开始,重新开始讨论和谈判这些收藏的各种子项目的可能性:数字化、在“永无止境的节日”中放映视频、字幕和在线流媒体。金蒙多的死后引发了一系列相互关联的问题。首先,我们如何理解这一举动的跨大西洋性质?该展览的新地点体现了各国电影文化之间的交流,考虑到意大利与美国战后复杂的文化关系,再考虑到金作为一名韩国移民在纽约开始了这项业务,在他的自助洗衣店里交易盗版的VHS录像带,这种文化交流就变得越来越难以描绘。…
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DADA, SURREALISM, AND THE CINEMATIC EFFECT By R. Bruce Elder Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013, 765 pp.Reviewed by John W. LockeIf you have an interest in any of the following six areas, you should read this book: DADA, Dada films, Surrealism, Surrealist films, Lawrence (Larry) Jordan, or logic and mathematics in relation to developments in early twentieth century art. Many books unfold in expected ways. They often contain scholarship, critical insight, and ideas that advance our understanding of their subjects. A very small number of books also propose positions which truly surprise the reader. Elder's book is an example of the latter type. Why would any Film Studies book contain sections dealing with geometry, logic, and formalist mathematics? How can these discussions illuminate DADA, Surrealism, and the work of Lawrence Jordan? This 700 plus page book answers those questions.A Film Studies reader may be drawn to the book by its title while working on Marcel Duchamp and Anemic cinema (1926). Using the very comprehensive index, a ten-page discussion of the film can be easily found. Beginning to read this, it becomes clear that the treatment of Anemic cinema is located in the chapter "Dadaism and the Disasters of War," which started some sixty pages earlier. This example illustrates one of the valuable aspects of Elder's book: it is about films and filmmakers, but it is also about the intellectual and art world context in which the films were made in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1960s. Just reading the sections about the films would miss the more extensive positions and arguments presented by the book.Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect is carefully constructed to be read from the first page rather than being used as a reference book. There is an introduction in which Elder states his position with such admirable clarity that it would be presumptuous for me to paraphrase it: "In my consideration of the relations between film and the artistic movements known as DADA and Surrealism, I take two approaches. The first is to explore the cinema's role as a model for those movements and to demonstrate that the film medium has had a privileged status for Dadaists and Surrealists, who wanted to reformulate poetry, theatre, music, and painting so that these forms might take on some of the cinema's virtues. The second is to study how the advanced ideas about art and artmaking proposed by the DADA and Surrealist circles, and the advanced artistic practices to which these ideas gave rise, reciprocally influenced the cinema."There are numerous examples of new ideas in the book. For example, some conventional approaches to DADA see the movement as resulting from the First World War being a protest movement centered on nihilism. Elder points out a spiritual side of the movement and emphasizes its constructive aims. He also discusses the close relationship between DADA and Surrealism, particularly in regard to spiritual and occult interests. For me
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