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The Western through a Monocle: Fritz Lang's Examination of Western Mythology 单片镜下的西部片:弗里茨·朗对西方神话的考察
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910939
Justin J. Roberts
abstract: In his Westerns The Return of Frank James (1940), Western Union (1941), and Rancho Notorious (1952), director Fritz Lang interrogated Western genre tropes. By examining the theatricality of Westerns, the presentation of Native Americans in Westerns, and the frames used by Western storytellers, Lang questioned the nature of Hollywood Westerns. Later filmmakers, particularly Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, have shown their debt to Lang's films by alluding to them in their own films.
导演弗里茨·朗在他的西部片《弗兰克·詹姆斯归来》(1940年)、《西部联合汇款》(1941年)和《臭名昭著的牧场》(1952年)中,对西部片的类型隐喻进行了质疑。通过研究西部片的戏剧性、西部片中印第安人的表现以及西部片讲述者使用的框架,朗质疑了好莱坞西部片的本质。后来的电影人,尤其是塞尔吉奥·莱昂内(Sergio Leone)和克林特·伊斯特伍德(Clint Eastwood),通过在自己的电影中暗指朗的作品,来表达他们对朗电影的感激之情。
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Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay by Samhita Sunya (review) 《现代性的塞壬:孟买的世界电影》作者:萨姆希塔·苏亚
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910945
Reviewed by: Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay by Samhita Sunya Rakesh Sengupta (bio) Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay by Samhita Sunya University of California Press. 2022. 270 pages. $34.95 paper; also available in open access e-book. The globality of Hindi cinema is often an anecdotal entry point into alternative internationalisms. When Indians based in cosmopolitan spaces of the Global North strike up a conversation with fellow emigrants from Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, or the Middle East, the discussion is likely to revolve around their mutual fondness for Hindi cinema, its stars, and its songs. Oral and anecdotal histories of Hindi cinema's popularity in non-Anglophone parts of the world abound in such multicultural encounters in the West. Nonetheless, these auto-ethnographic accounts rarely inform the theoretical basis for research in film studies where the influence of Holly-wood, European arthouse, and international festival cinema largely continues to obscure other transnational flows and fandoms. Samhita Sunya's recent book, Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay, addresses this lacuna, one sustained by archival challenges as well as scholarly disdain for Hindi cinema's formal, capital, and libidinal excesses.1 Understandably, Sunya's book returns to some of the foundational concepts and theories of film studies to reorient our understanding of how ideas of world cinema, cinephilia, gender, excess, and circulation might operate and interrelate outside of a bipolar world order. At the very outset, Sunya deploys an eccentric Hindi song called "Akira Kurosawa" to tease out broader [End Page 190] questions about Hindi cinema's contemporaneity with postwar art cinema in the 1960s while also inquiring into its political accountability as a mass cultural form.2 The transnational and the regional are mutually constitutive vectors operating in the backdrop of Cold War–era worldmaking as well as secessionist movements in postcolonial India. Sunya also discusses the traffic of ideas across the Bombay and Madras film industries in that decade, which anticipates the rest of the book's investment in the underexplored traffic of personnel, capital, and technology across these regional industries. In chapter 1, Sunya opens the discussion of world cinema through "problems and possibilities of distribution in translation," with a critical emphasis on how the category of world cinema excluded commercial Indian films despite their extensive circulation in "not only the Indian Ocean regions of East Africa, the Persian Gulf, and Southeast Asia but also Fiji, the Caribbean, Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and East Asia."3 The constricted geography of world cinema, Sunya argues, was a result of "auteur-derived nationality and unity" as well as "racialized, (neo)colonial hierarchies" of spectatorship.4 The idealization of film spectators as literate and cosmopolitan was adopted in reformist state di
《现代性的警笛:通过孟买的世界电影》,作者:Samhita Sunya Rakesh Sengupta(传记)。《现代性的警笛:通过孟买的世界电影》,作者:Samhita Sunya加州大学出版社,2022。270页。34.95美元纸;也可在开放获取电子书。印度电影的全球化往往是进入另类国际主义的一个轶事切入点。当居住在全球北方大都会空间的印度人与来自非洲、中亚、东欧或中东的移民同伴交谈时,讨论可能围绕着他们对印度电影、印度明星和印度歌曲的共同喜爱。关于印度电影在世界非英语国家流行的口述和轶事历史,在西方的这种多元文化遭遇中比比皆是。尽管如此,这些自我民族志的描述很少为电影研究提供理论基础,因为好莱坞、欧洲艺术电影和国际电影节的影响在很大程度上继续掩盖着其他跨国流动和狂热。Samhita Sunya的新书《现代性的警笛:从孟买看世界电影》(Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay)解决了这一空白,这一空白是由档案挑战以及学者对印度电影的形式、资本和性欲过度的蔑视所维持的可以理解的是,苏亚的书回归了电影研究的一些基本概念和理论,以重新定位我们对世界电影、电影癖、性别、过剩和循环等概念如何在两极世界秩序之外运作和相互联系的理解。从一开始,Sunya就使用了一首古怪的印地语歌曲《黑泽明》(Akira Kurosawa),以梳理出有关印度电影与20世纪60年代战后艺术电影的当代性的更广泛的问题,同时也探讨了它作为一种大众文化形式的政治责任在冷战时期的世界格局以及后殖民时期印度的分离主义运动的背景下,跨国和地区是相互构成的载体。苏亚还讨论了那十年中孟买和马德拉斯电影产业之间的思想交流,这预示着本书的其余部分将投资于这些地区产业之间未被充分探索的人员、资本和技术交流。在第一章中,Sunya通过“翻译发行的问题和可能性”开启了对世界电影的讨论,并批判性地强调了世界电影的范畴是如何排除商业印度电影的,尽管它们不仅在东非、波斯湾和东南亚的印度洋地区广泛流通,而且在斐济、加勒比海、中亚、西亚、北非、东欧和东亚。苏亚认为,世界电影的狭窄地理是“导演衍生的民族性和统一性”以及观众“种族化的(新)殖民等级”的结果将电影观众理想化为有文化的、世界主义的观点也被改良主义国家的“电影欣赏”话语所采纳此外,Sunya发掘了1963年印度电影出口公司(IMPEC)成立的有趣历史,该公司旨在将海外发行国有化,并以国家形象规范商业电影的流通电影歌曲被指责为印度电影中最无法出口的元素,但恰恰相反,Sunya展示了它如何成为海外观众最喜爱的电影组成部分。作者通过对印度电影文本的细致研究,为这种文明话语提供了急需的纠正,印度电影文本没有作者或民族的统一。她还为“心甘情愿被引诱的观众”辩护,他们的“电影互惠”创造了一种对商业电影观众更具代理性的理解第二章对孟买电影歌曲中关于“爱之城”的主题进行了历史分析,这些歌曲的反种姓乌托邦起源源于15世纪的卡比尔和18世纪的布勒·沙阿等圣神秘主义者的民歌和诗歌。作者对印地语电影歌词的百科全书式知识和对其文本谱系的仔细关注表明,孟买电影中prem nagar的抒情比喻如何揭示了一种独特的乌托邦主义-à-vis,它的后殖民可能性和资本主义过度,有助于“参与性电影参与所带来的进步的另一种形式”。“爱如影迷”的概念,尽管看起来很朴素,却试图探索……
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Manifest Documentary 清单的纪录片
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910938
Rijuta Mehta
abstract: This article argues that the symbolic and material power of Manifest Destiny inhered in the norms of documentary photography at Life magazine, particularly in preexisting shooting scripts. An analysis of visual re-takes and narrative fixity in the 1947 photo-essay on the Indian Partition, "The Great Migration," reveals how tropes of US settler colonialism were projected onto distressed refugees in South Asia. The norm of having photographed subjects enact script-image correlation was a revenue-minded colonial action; it absorbed a range of racial differences—South Asian, Black American, and Native American—into the fantasy of postwar US hegemony.
摘要:本文认为,《昭昭天命》的象征力量和物质力量根植于《生活》杂志纪实摄影的规范中,尤其是存在于已有的拍摄脚本中。1947年,一篇关于印度分治的摄影文章《大迁徙》(the Great Migration)对视觉再现和叙事固定性进行了分析,揭示了美国殖民主义的隐喻是如何投射到南亚痛苦的难民身上的。让拍摄对象制定脚本-图像相关性的规范是一种注重收入的殖民行为;它将一系列种族差异——南亚人、美国黑人和美洲原住民——吸收到战后美国霸权的幻想中。
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Spotlight: Gender and Feminisms Caucus 焦点:性别和女权主义核心小组
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910935
Rebecca Harrison, Morgan Bimm
Spotlight:Gender and Feminisms Caucus Rebecca Harrison (bio) and Morgan Bimm (bio) We write this article during a period of crisis for people marginalized by gender around the world. Women and their allies in Iran face state-sanctioned violence in protests that respond to the killing of Mahsa Amini by morality police.1 In Afghanistan, the Taliban has banned women and girls from accessing high school and university education.2 Last year, scores of Indigenous women activists, including Sandra Liliana Peña Chocué, were murdered by political opponents in South and Central America.3 The Supreme Court of the United States has overturned the federal right to access medical abortion. In the UK, police officers commit gender-based violence with impunity, refugees are denied safe passage, and a quarter of women live in poverty.4 The fierce backlash against the #MeToo movement—#WoYeShi in China, #ArewaMeToo in Nigeria—has been felt around the globe. [End Page 1] Moreover, as scholars and practitioners of media, it's impossible for us to ignore the intersectional oppressions that erase women's voices in the industries that we study, the texts that we analyze, and the places that we work. Shabana, a journalism student in Afghanistan, described how her "heart was shattered" on being denied a career as a newscaster.5 India Willoughby has spoken about the threats she faces as the UK's first publicly trans newscaster.6 Heads of department in India's film industry are 90 percent male.7 Only 24 percent of creatives in major roles in Hollywood are women.8 Of the 22,000 professors in UK universities, only forty-one are Black women; 68 percent of researchers are on fixed-term contracts.9 These are the outcomes of divisive and cruel systems. These are not conditions in which solidarity is meant to thrive between people of different gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, disability, age, immigration status, language, or culture. Yet across our scholarly and industry networks, solidarity persists. Within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), many of us have found a home in the Gender and Feminisms Caucus (formerly the Women's Caucus), which fosters community and encourages us to enact care. As one of the first SCMS caucuses, it has played a significant role in supporting members marginalized by gender. At a critical moment in our collective fight for a more just world, we reflect on the caucus's past achievements and look to its future. the women's caucus: building a foundation The caucus was originally founded in 1994 "to promote parity for women's intellectual and practical work in film, TV, and video."10 Over the years, the Women's Caucus made many achievements. Co-chairs set up an innovative mentorship program that provided graduate students and early career faculty with opportunities to learn from more experienced colleagues. It was (as far as we can tell) the first caucus to offer an annual graduate student writing prize, established in 2015 by Shell
聚焦:性别与女权主义核心小组丽贝卡·哈里森(传记)和摩根·比姆(传记)我们在世界各地因性别而被边缘化的人们的危机时期撰写这篇文章。伊朗妇女及其盟友在抗议马哈萨·阿米尼(Mahsa Amini)被道德警察杀害后,面临国家批准的暴力在阿富汗,塔利班禁止妇女和女孩接受高中和大学教育去年,包括Sandra Liliana Peña chocu在内的数十名土著妇女活动家在南美和中美洲被政治对手谋杀。3美国最高法院推翻了联邦政府获得药物堕胎的权利。在英国,警察实施性别暴力而不受惩罚,难民无法安全通过,四分之一的妇女生活在贫困中对“我也是”运动的强烈抵制——中国的“我也是”,尼日利亚的“我也是”——已经波及全球。此外,作为媒体的学者和从业者,我们不可能忽视在我们研究的行业、我们分析的文本和我们工作的场所中抹去女性声音的交叉压迫。Shabana是阿富汗的一名新闻系学生,她描述了自己被拒绝成为一名新闻播音员时“心碎了”英迪亚·威洛比谈到了她作为英国首位公开跨性别新闻播音员所面临的威胁印度电影业的部门主管90%是男性在好莱坞的主要角色中,只有24%的创意人员是女性在英国大学的2.2万名教授中,只有41名黑人女性;68%的研究人员签订的是定期合同这些都是分裂和残酷制度的结果。在这些条件下,不同性别、种族、民族、性取向、阶级、残疾、年龄、移民身份、语言或文化的人之间的团结不可能茁壮成长。然而,在我们的学术和行业网络中,团结始终存在。在电影和媒体研究协会(SCMS),我们中的许多人都在性别和女权主义核心小组(以前的妇女核心小组)中找到了一个家,这个小组促进了社区的发展,鼓励我们制定关怀措施。作为首批SCMS党团会议之一,它在支持被性别边缘化的成员方面发挥了重要作用。在我们为一个更公正的世界而集体斗争的关键时刻,我们回顾核心小组过去的成就并展望其未来。女性核心小组成立于1994年,旨在“促进女性在电影、电视和视频领域的智力和实际工作方面的平等”。多年来,妇女核心小组取得了许多成就。联合主席设立了一个创新的导师计划,为研究生和早期职业教师提供向更有经验的同事学习的机会。据我们所知,这是第一个设立年度研究生写作奖的党团会议,该奖项于2015年由女权主义媒体史的雪莱·斯坦普(Shelley Stamp)和詹妮弗·宾(Jennifer Bean)设立,旨在表彰该领域的新兴声音。由于Chris Holmlund的努力,Grrrls' Night Out成为了一个长期的社交和网络活动,将成员聚集在一起,超越了SCMS年会的正式讨论。核心小组试图[欢迎]人们,[创造]支持性的空间,在那里人们可以见面并与他人联系,特别是在[SCMS]本身,在一个很容易让人感到压倒性或非个人的环境中。在年度党团会议期间举行的一系列小组讨论中,成员们在校园内外的行动主义也得到了支持。迄今为止的撰稿人包括詹妮弗·摩尔曼、克里斯汀·阿查姆和菲拉娜·佩顿。对劳动公平的长期承诺也引发了一些举措,比如在核心小组委员会中引入初级教师代表的职位,以及优先考虑早期职业研究人员、研究生和就业不足的教师的会议费用减免抽奖活动。在其他形式的公平中,我个人对核心小组对劳动公平的承诺感到非常鼓舞,我认为青年教师代表的成立是在这方面迈出的有力的第一步。- j……
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Atmosphere: Mexican Extras and the Production of Race in Silent Hollywood 气氛:墨西哥临时演员和无声好莱坞的种族制作
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910940
Laura Isabel Serna
abstract: This essay focuses on Mexican extras in silent era Hollywood. Rather than attempting to write an authoritative history of their work, I use accounts of Mexican extra work to explore how silent era Hollywood's production practices made race. Mexican extras, I explain, were perceived as another amenity offered by the industry's new home in Southern California, important for producing certain types of narratives but materially and discursively relegated to the margins of the industry. Their presence, on-screen and in the trade press, however, was central to the production of racial difference in on-screen narratives and in social life.
本文以默片时代好莱坞的墨西哥临时演员为研究对象。我并没有试图为他们的工作写一部权威的历史,而是用墨西哥人的额外工作来探索沉默时代好莱坞的制作实践是如何制造种族的。我解释说,墨西哥临时演员被认为是该行业在南加州的新家提供的另一种便利,对制作某些类型的叙事很重要,但在物质上和话语上却被贬到了该行业的边缘。然而,他们的存在,无论是在银幕上还是在商业媒体上,都是银幕叙事和社会生活中种族差异产生的核心。
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"Reading Too Much into It": Affective Excess, Extrapolative Reading, and Queer Temporalities in MCU Fanfiction “读得太多”:漫威漫威同人小说中的情感过剩、外推式阅读和酷儿时间性
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910958
Maghan Molloy Jackson
abstract: This article engages José Esteban Muñoz's concept of queer utopian temporality through the heuristic of fanfiction. Beginning with a discussion of accusations of "excessive reading" as a normalizing disciplinary tactic of media viewership, I problematize representations of LGBT+ experience in mainstream television and cinema through Muñoz's figuration of "straight time." I then turn to close readings of several fannish texts created in conversation with the 2014 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo) to demonstrate fanfiction's utility in imagining queer utopian temporalities through the practice of "reading too much into" extant narrative media texts.
本文通过对同人小说的启发,探讨jos Esteban Muñoz关于酷儿乌托邦时间性的概念。首先,我讨论了对“过度阅读”的指责,认为这是媒体观众的一种常态化的纪律策略,我通过Muñoz对“直时间”的塑造,对主流电视和电影中LGBT+经历的表现提出了问题。然后,我仔细阅读了与2014年漫威电影宇宙电影《美国队长:冬日战士》(安东尼·罗素和乔·罗素)的对话中创作的几个同人文本,以证明同人小说在通过对现有叙事媒体文本“过度解读”来想象酷儿乌托邦暂时性方面的效用。
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Homecoming, Border-Crossing, and Conjuncture Film: Hsia Moon, Hong Kong New Wave, and the Bluebird Trilogy, 1982–1984 电影:夏月、香港新浪潮与蓝鸟三部曲,1982-1984
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910942
Ying Xiao
abstract: This article examines Hsia Moon and her momentous transition from a celebrated movie star emblematic of the Hong Kong leftist cinema in the 1950s and 1960s to a prescient and resourceful producer who returned to the film circle and founded Bluebird Movie Enterprises to produce three important pieces in 1982 to 1984: Touben nvhai ( Boat People , Ann Hui), Zigu yingxiong chu shaonian ( Little Heroes , Mou Dunfu), and Sishui liunian ( Homecoming , Yim Ho). Through a close analysis of the film texts and production background alongside an original research of the historical documents and interviews with the filmmaker, I argue that Hsia Moon's Bluebird productions, ephemeral but highly influential, serve as conjuncture films at the crossroads of the post–Cold War and Sino-British negotiation era.
摘要:本文考察了夏雯从20世纪五六十年代香港左派电影的代表人物,到一位有先见之明、足智多谋的制片人,并于1982年至1984年创办蓝鸟电影公司,制作了三部重要作品:《船民》(许鞍华)、《小英雄》(Mou Dunfu)和《四水流年》(林浩)。通过对电影文本和制作背景的仔细分析,以及对历史文献的原始研究和对电影制作人的采访,我认为夏文的《青鸟》作品虽然短暂,但影响力很大,是后冷战和中英谈判时代的十字路口上的关键电影。
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Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran by Blake Atwood (review) 《地下:伊朗录像带的秘密生活》布莱克·阿特伍德著(书评)
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910959
Reviewed by: Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran by Blake Atwood Hatim El-Hibri (bio) Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran by Blake Atwood The MIT Press. 2021. 264 pages. $35.00 paper; also available in e-book. Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran examines how videocassettes wound their way through everyday life in Iran, making a profound impact on the media landscape. The book shows how the official ban on the medium, enacted in 1983 during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) and unevenly enforced until it was lifted in 1994, led to the flourishing of informal video distribution. Author Blake Atwood presents a compelling account of the lived textures of video's clandestine-yet-ubiquitous presence through oral history—interviews with former video dealers, filmmakers, former government employees, and people from many walks of life who fondly remember video's heyday. Underground expands current debates in the study of media distribution, infrastructure studies, and the material culture of media by analyzing how this technological format negotiated, circumvented, and repurposed state policy and the affordances of the medium. Beyond the novelty of its topic—this is the first scholarly monograph on the subject in English—the book's methodological approach and conceptual framing also result in an original contribution to the literature on Iranian and Middle Eastern media. The book takes the reader into Iran's underground network through five chapters that examine a facet of its operation. Rather than a chronological ordering, the first four chapters examine a different dimension of the long decade of 1983 to 1994 (when the ban was officially in place). While each [End Page 181] chapter reflects on the contemporary moment, the final chapter is more fully focused on how this period continues to inform the present. This structure allows for in-depth consideration of how state regulations (including the lead up to the 1983 ban) impacted existing media institutions and the nascent video industry (chapter 1), the material and human working of the distribution network (chapter 2), the labor and aspirations of video dealers (chapter 3), and the effect of evolving relations between public and private spaces on home viewing and the place of the VCR and videocassettes in mediating the relationship between them (chapter 4). This is followed by a sustained examination of how the memory of the underground manifests in the cultural afterlife of videocassettes in the 2010s and is directly thematized in contemporary culture (chapter 5). These chapters are bracketed by a teachable introduction and a coda, which ruminates on the role that a non-Iranian researcher can play in entering into a dialogue with people whose lives were and continue to be directly impacted by the videocassette ban. Underground's contribution rests in its weaving together of more than forty interviews with archival sources and extensive fieldwork, s
审查:地下:录像带在伊朗的秘密生活由布莱克·阿特伍德哈蒂姆·埃尔-希布里(传记)地下:录像带在伊朗的秘密生活由布莱克·阿特伍德麻省理工学院出版社。2021。264页。35.00美元纸;也有电子书版本。《地下:伊朗录像带的秘密生活》探讨了录像带如何在伊朗的日常生活中缠绕,对媒体格局产生深远影响。这本书展示了1983年两伊战争(1980-1988)期间官方对媒体的禁令是如何导致非正式视频传播的蓬勃发展的,直到1994年禁令被解除,禁令的执行并不均衡。作者布莱克·阿特伍德通过对前视频经销商、电影制作人、前政府雇员和各行各业的人的口述历史,对视频秘密而又无处不在的存在的生活质感进行了令人信服的描述,他们对视频的鼎盛时期充满了怀念。《地下》通过分析这种技术形式如何协商、规避和改变国家政策和媒介的功能,扩展了当前关于媒介分布、基础设施研究和媒介物质文化研究的辩论。这是英语中第一本关于这一主题的学术专著,除了其主题的新颖性之外,本书的方法方法和概念框架也对伊朗和中东媒体的文献做出了原创贡献。这本书通过五个章节考察其运作的一个方面,将读者带入伊朗的地下网络。本书的前四章并没有按时间顺序排列,而是从不同的角度考察了1983年至1994年(禁令正式实施之时)这十年的历史。虽然每一章都反映了当代的时刻,但最后一章更全面地关注了这一时期如何继续影响着现在。这种结构允许深入考虑国家法规(包括导致1983年禁令)如何影响现有的媒体机构和新兴的视频行业(第1章),分销网络的材料和人力工作(第2章),视频经销商的劳动和愿望(第3章),以及公共和私人空间之间不断演变的关系对家庭观看的影响,以及VCR和录像带在调解它们之间关系中的地位(第4章)。接下来是对地下记忆如何在2010年代的录像带文化来世中表现出来的持续研究,并直接在当代文化中被主题化(第5章)。这些章节由一个易教的介绍和结尾所涵盖。这篇文章思考了一个非伊朗研究人员可以扮演的角色,与那些生活曾经和现在都直接受到录像带禁令影响的人对话。《地下》的贡献在于它将四十多份档案资料的采访和广泛的实地考察结合在一起,将这项研究历史地置于伊朗媒体景观的跨国框架中。第1章到第4章并行进行,使本书生动地传达了这种正常但非正式,常见但合法的媒体领域的生活矛盾。阿特伍德通过自我反思的口述历史,将伊朗革命后全能国家的固有观念复杂化,考察了受访者如何利用各种叙事策略来表达他们的经历。这让我们能够更细致地理解,正式的媒体监管是如何创造了一个超越官方目标的非正式空间,甚至影响了政府机构的运作。阿特伍德强调,以海盗问题为中心的分析框架不足以解释由此产生的非正式经济和文化。正如第一章所探讨的那样,1983年的禁令是对大量进口视频租赁市场的爆炸性流行的回应,这种市场被视为与国家资助的电影和电视竞争。然而,地下网络也成为一名政府雇员传播伊朗老电影档案的途径,否则这些老电影可能就不会被广泛传播了。随着两伊战争的爆发,这个后革命国家培养新文化公民的议程变得更加紧迫,地下视频成为许多人重新协商公共和私人生活关系的场所。这本书的核心论点是……
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Netflix Recommends: Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste by Mattias Frey, and: Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand by Amanda D. Lotz (review) Netflix推荐:马蒂亚斯·弗雷的《算法、电影选择和品味的历史》,以及阿曼达·d·洛茨的《Netflix和流媒体视频:用户资助的视频点播业务》(评论)
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910946
Reviewed by: Netflix Recommends: Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste by Mattias Frey, and: Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand by Amanda D. Lotz Ethan Tussey (bio) Netflix Recommends: Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste by Mattias Frey University of California Press. 2021. 282 pages. $85.00 hardcover; $29.95 paper; also available in e-book. Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand by Amanda D. Lotz Polity Press. 2022. 224 pages. $64.95 hardcover; $22.95 paper; also available in e-book. The schadenfreude that accompanied the news of Netflix missing its quarterly subscriber projections in the spring of 2022 represented an unusually boisterous public reaction to a stockholder meeting.1 For many observers, this served as a landmark moment in the streaming wars (the nickname for the perceived competition between subscription streaming platforms), a sign that [End Page 194] Netflix's meteoric rise could decelerate. It has been a decade since Netflix disrupted the status quo in the media industries by transitioning its video-rental company into a streaming media platform. In that time, anxious industry onlookers and internet utopians have wondered what the new normal would mean. Fueled by financial speculation, subscriber growth had been the metric of success for Netflix, but the drop in stock valuation shifted Netflix's focus to revenue and the launching of an advertising-supported tier.2 Netflix promised to revolutionize the entertainment industry, but subscription tiers and advertising breaks feel eerily familiar to those of us who remember a time before streaming. Has Netflix really changed the media industries? Answering that question are two new books on the streaming company that can help us assess the effects of the first decade of the streaming era. The more recent of the two, Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand, comes from one of the key voices on the subject, Amanda Lotz. Throughout her career, Lotz has demonstrated a keen ability to make the murky waters of streaming clearer by providing terminology, schemas, and resources for analyzing digital disruption, the global proliferation of services, and the historic antecedents for these platforms.3 Her latest work strives to correct several assumptions including two opposing points of view: that everything or nothing has fundamentally changed in the streaming era. Instead, Lotz convincingly contends that streaming media platforms, and Netflix especially, have distinct characteristics that must be considered when cataloging continuity and change. These distinctions become clear when one stops applying what Lotz calls the "hegemony of linear norms" to evaluations of Netflix.4 These norms have been carried over from the broadcast television era, such as the belief that the goal of programming is to gain the largest audience/ratings, that programming
由:Netflix推荐:算法,电影选择,和口味的历史由马蒂亚斯·弗雷,和:Netflix和流媒体视频:业务订阅资助的视频点播由阿曼达·d·洛茨伊森·塔西(传记)Netflix推荐:算法,电影选择,和口味的历史由马蒂亚斯·弗雷加州大学出版社。2021。282页。85.00美元的精装书;29.95美元纸;也有电子书版本。Netflix和流媒体视频:订户资助的视频点播业务,Amanda D. Lotz著,Polity出版社,2022。224页。64.95美元的精装书;22.95美元纸;也有电子书版本。2022年春季,Netflix未能实现季度订户预测,随之而来的幸灾乐祸代表了公众对股东大会的异常热烈的反应对于许多观察人士来说,这是流媒体战争(流媒体是订阅流媒体平台之间的竞争的昵称)的一个里程碑式的时刻,这标志着Netflix的迅速崛起可能会减速。十年前,Netflix将其视频租赁公司转型为流媒体平台,打破了媒体行业的现状。在此期间,焦虑的行业旁观者和互联网乌托邦主义者一直想知道新常态意味着什么。在金融投机的推动下,用户增长一直是Netflix成功的衡量标准,但股票估值的下跌使Netflix的重点转向了收入和推出广告支持的二级市场Netflix曾承诺要彻底改变娱乐行业,但对于我们这些还记得流媒体出现之前的时代的人来说,订阅等级和广告中断却出奇地熟悉。Netflix真的改变了媒体行业吗?回答这个问题的是两本关于流媒体公司的新书,它们可以帮助我们评估流媒体时代头十年的影响。最近出版的《Netflix和流媒体视频:用户资助的视频点播业务》一书出自该领域的关键人物之一阿曼达•洛茨之手。在她的职业生涯中,Lotz展示了一种敏锐的能力,通过提供术语、模式和资源来分析数字颠覆、服务的全球扩散以及这些平台的历史先例,使流媒体的浑浊之水变得更加清晰她的最新作品试图纠正几个假设,包括两种相反的观点:在流媒体时代,一切都发生了根本性的变化。相反,洛茨令人信服地认为,流媒体平台,尤其是Netflix,在对连续性和变化进行分类时,必须考虑到其独特的特征。当人们不再将洛茨所说的“线性规范的霸权”应用于netflix的评价时,这些区别就变得清晰起来。4这些规范是从广播电视时代延续下来的,比如认为节目的目标是获得最大的观众/收视率,节目应该促进定期的观看,媒体公司正试图引导观众收看公司有经济利益的特别喜欢的节目。这些规范的持续存在,让人们无法理解Netflix是与传统电视和电影行业并驾齐驱的服务。作为这些规范的替代方案,Lotz提供了一个由地理区域、图书馆特殊性、图书馆所有权和给定服务的公司所有权定义的分类法,当应用时,它揭示了这些平台制定其订阅主张的方式通过考虑这些因素,Lotz展示了订阅平台是如何设计来创造内容,以促进无数理想的存在状态,如多任务观看或舒适观看,这与线性电视有相似之处,但在数字平台上很有前景,并成为可靠的体验产品,确保用户流失率保持在低水平。洛茨认为,当我们关注流媒体订阅服务时,我们关注的是那些看似熟悉但运作方式独特的娱乐产品。洛茨的工作与马蒂亚斯·弗雷的新书《Netflix推荐:算法、电影选择和品味的历史》非常吻合。乍一看,弗雷关于“数字时代的连续性可能比变化更多”的说法似乎与洛茨所反对的那种二元预测相一致,但弗雷并没有被“……
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Spotlight: Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz 重点报道:玛丽莎·希克斯-阿尔卡拉兹
2区 艺术学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.a910936
Angela J. Aguayo
Spotlight:Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz Angela J. Aguayo Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 5] Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz is a distinguished post-doctoral research associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As a transdisciplinary scholar, she brings together digital race and ethnic studies, media arts practice and curation, liberationist political thought, US Latin American and Caribbean diasporic studies, intersectional feminism, and grassroots archival praxis. Her research aims to decenter Western ways of knowing and challenges extractivist and neoliberal practices by adopting a relational framework for publicly engaged scholarship. Her most recent projects focus on partnerships that support the remixing of personal archives to reclaim our stories and the recovery of independent filmmaking created by US-based Latinas in the Latina Film Recovery Project. Marisa received her PhD in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University and MA in Cinema Studies from New York University. Interview by Angela J. Aguayo, an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Angela J. Aguayo: Your current research is an innovative program of scholarship and community archiving focused on digital preservation and challenging the assumptions of its capitalist-colonial worldview. This scholarship involves an engaged practice of collaborating with communities on digital preservation of undocumented histories, foregrounding the stories and archives of underrepresented and misrepresented people. In using this framework, how do we avoid replicating the power dynamics we aim to dismantle? Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz: To do this, we need to keep looking critically at our own interventions. It's important to recognize that in navigating and negotiating dominant knowledge systems, we may inevitably reproduce the very parts of colonialism and capitalism that we have already identified as violent and in need of change. A part of this process is acknowledging the significant power differentials between ourselves and community partners and surrendering our power to work effectively and ethically. To me, this means showing humility and vulnerability. It means being conscious of my actions, owning up to my mistakes, and making plans to prevent future mistakes. And it means committing to nourishing the kinds of skills that involve consistent and repeated actions of respect, trust, and honest communication to form meaningful and flourishing relationships. This may not necessarily be a solution, but it can be a step forward. Aguayo: Your writing has appeared in the International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion; Feminist Media Histories; Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities; and Reviews in Digital Humanities. The research questions you propose in these projects are essential to media and cinema studies: How does a critical analysis of power provide an understanding
玛丽莎·希克斯-阿尔卡拉兹安吉拉·阿瓜约点击查看大图查看全分辨率[结束页5]玛丽莎·希克斯-阿尔卡拉兹是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的杰出博士后研究员。作为一名跨学科学者,她汇集了数字种族和民族研究,媒体艺术实践和策展,解放主义政治思想,美国拉丁美洲和加勒比流散研究,交叉女权主义和基层档案实践。她的研究旨在通过采用公共参与学术的关系框架来分散西方的认识方式并挑战采掘主义者和新自由主义实践。她最近的项目集中在合作伙伴关系上,支持个人档案的重新混合,以收回我们的故事,并在拉丁电影恢复项目中恢复由美国拉丁裔创造的独立电影制作。玛丽莎获得克莱蒙特研究生大学文化研究博士学位和纽约大学电影研究硕士学位。采访作者安吉拉·j·阿瓜约,伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校媒体与电影研究系副教授。安吉拉·j·阿瓜约:你目前的研究是一个创新的学术和社区档案项目,专注于数字保存,并挑战其资本主义殖民世界观的假设。该奖学金涉及与社区合作,以数字方式保存未记录的历史,突出未被充分代表和被歪曲的人的故事和档案。在使用这个框架时,我们如何避免复制我们想要拆除的权力动态?玛丽莎·希克斯-阿尔卡拉兹:要做到这一点,我们需要不断批判地审视我们自己的干预措施。重要的是要认识到,在主导知识体系的导航和谈判中,我们可能不可避免地再现殖民主义和资本主义的某些部分,这些部分我们已经认为是暴力的,需要改变。这个过程的一部分是承认我们和社区伙伴之间的巨大权力差异,并放弃我们有效和道德地工作的权力。对我来说,这意味着表现出谦卑和脆弱。它意味着意识到我的行为,承认我的错误,并制定计划以防止未来的错误。这意味着致力于培养各种技能,包括持续和重复的尊重、信任和诚实沟通的行为,以形成有意义和繁荣的关系。这可能不一定是一个解决方案,但它可以是向前迈出的一步。阿瓜约:你的文章发表在《国际信息、多样性和包容性杂志》上;女性主义媒体史;艺术与人文学科的跨学科数字参与和数字人文评论。你在这些项目中提出的研究问题对媒体和电影研究至关重要:对权力的批判性分析如何提供对资本主义殖民主义如何支撑占主导地位的数字保存系统的理解?档案工作者和研究人员将以关系为中心的框架应用于数字保存活动和方法的一些实际方法是什么?你能告诉我你在工作中发现了什么吗?希克斯-阿尔卡拉兹:质疑我们所参与的系统,是对我们社区中团结和尊重他人的承诺。我自己对社区环境中数字保存原则和实践的批判性分析揭示了根植于殖民和新自由主义制度的访问和所有权的潜在假设。以“后保管”模式为例。后保管主义被广泛理解为一种非提取的、互惠的方法,通过管理其档案材料的数字化副本,与创作者共享控制权,而无需获得它们的物理保管(所有权)。虽然后保管主义干预了保管的档案原则,但档案机构对社区记录的管理或管理可能会加剧不平等,因为创作者往往需要在没有持续同意、撤回权或经济补偿的情况下,对其记录的数字副本的使用、展示和分发授予永久控制权。诸如此类的机制,无论其意图如何,都会导致历史上被排斥的社区丧失权力和贬值。另外,以关系为中心的数字保存方法挑战了档案保管员/研究人员和社区之间的同质权力动态,并响应了对深刻责任感和与他人联系的日益紧迫的需求。以下协议取自我目前与ImaginX en Movimiento (IXeM)成员、平面设计师Aldo puicon一起开发的工具包。
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