{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
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.
摘要:思辨现实主义可以借鉴电影理论,尤其是让-路易·鲍德里的装置理论。两部电影——《构造》(Peter Bo Rappmund, 2012)和《Jauja》(Lisandro Alonso, 2014)——被分析为唤起人们对超越人类的现实的关注,同时暴露了电影表现现实的有限能力。这些自我反射的姿态表明,人类就像电影一样,有一种特定的观看方式,他们无法逃脱。但这并不意味着我们要陷入一种无望的人类中心主义,因为通过质疑这些观点的局限性,我们可能会接触到思想之外的不可表征的东西。
{"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}
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.
{"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}
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.
摘要:本文反驳了Babette Mangolte和D. N. Rodowick关于在数字电影中难以表达持续时间的主张,认为通过数字技术对基于镜头的图像进行一系列微观层面的处理——色彩校正、数字溶解和极端慢动作,我称之为“数字微处理”——能够深化对电影持续时间和时间性的呈现和探索。借鉴詹姆斯·本宁、莎伦·洛克哈特和汤姆·安德森最近的数字电影,我证明了导演对数字微操作的不同使用应该被视为扩展了他们在胶片电影中记录时间和美学的实验方法。
{"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}