W e set out on this In Focus section with the general intent of bringing together scholars working in contemporary youth media studies. This is our own background, as Louisa has written extensively on teen television shows and the youth fan cultures that surround them, and Tim has examined youth in American movies going back to early Hollywood. As we began considering established scholars in the fi eld to solicit for contributions, we soon found evidence of the increasing attention to youth concerns beyond traditional fi lm and television texts, as much recent scholarship has focused on children and young adults using and creating social media. This increased attention to youth digital cultures should not have been a surprise given the state of the academy and, more so, the preoccupations of young people today. The youth population is indeed spending less time watching TV and going to movies and more time doing something—anything—on the Internet. When they are watching fi lms and TV programs, they’re often consuming that media online and then transforming their media engagement into authorship in digital venues, creating fan art and fan fi ction, or off ering reviews and critiques through social media networks. Increasingly, youth media engagement is also becoming more mobile because, for a variety of
{"title":"\"Against a Sharp White Background\": Toward Race-Based Intersectional Research in Youth Media Studies","authors":"M. Kearney","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0060","url":null,"abstract":"W e set out on this In Focus section with the general intent of bringing together scholars working in contemporary youth media studies. This is our own background, as Louisa has written extensively on teen television shows and the youth fan cultures that surround them, and Tim has examined youth in American movies going back to early Hollywood. As we began considering established scholars in the fi eld to solicit for contributions, we soon found evidence of the increasing attention to youth concerns beyond traditional fi lm and television texts, as much recent scholarship has focused on children and young adults using and creating social media. This increased attention to youth digital cultures should not have been a surprise given the state of the academy and, more so, the preoccupations of young people today. The youth population is indeed spending less time watching TV and going to movies and more time doing something—anything—on the Internet. When they are watching fi lms and TV programs, they’re often consuming that media online and then transforming their media engagement into authorship in digital venues, creating fan art and fan fi ction, or off ering reviews and critiques through social media networks. Increasingly, youth media engagement is also becoming more mobile because, for a variety of","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"63 1","pages":"119 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79875891","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:Hollywood's war mobilization efforts in support of the Liberty Loan Bond Drives (1917–1918) were critical to shifting government officials' perceptions of the value of commercial cinema as a tool of propaganda and cultural policy during wartime. By tracing the industry's efforts in the bond drives, and the narrative production and distribution of the Liberty Loan propaganda films in particular, this article shows how the patriotic film star testimonial became an expedient ideological mechanism. The propaganda films reinforced perceptions held by some political elites of commercial film as lowbrow as they also signaled a new manner of effectively linking popular culture with state power to promote unified national identity during crisis.
{"title":"Star Testimonials and Trailers: Mobilizing during World War I","authors":"S. Collins","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0055","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Hollywood's war mobilization efforts in support of the Liberty Loan Bond Drives (1917–1918) were critical to shifting government officials' perceptions of the value of commercial cinema as a tool of propaganda and cultural policy during wartime. By tracing the industry's efforts in the bond drives, and the narrative production and distribution of the Liberty Loan propaganda films in particular, this article shows how the patriotic film star testimonial became an expedient ideological mechanism. The propaganda films reinforced perceptions held by some political elites of commercial film as lowbrow as they also signaled a new manner of effectively linking popular culture with state power to promote unified national identity during crisis.","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"46 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79826191","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:Remediation is a noted phenomenon in cinema studies. How it operates in African films has been less parsed. This article examines Abderrahmane Sissako's La vie sur Terre (1998) and Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé (2004), two films with distinct approaches to the remediation of radio. I argue that postcolonial African media contexts, where national cinemas struggle (Nollywood excepted) and radio thrives, compel us to read remediation's tensions as locally rendered and politically charged. As these media interact on film they pose questions about visuality, sound, and broadcasting that fortify the film narratives and challenge media ideologies of the continent.
摘要:补救是电影研究中一个值得注意的现象。它是如何在非洲电影中运作的却很少被分析。本文考察了Abderrahmane Sissako的La vie sur Terre(1998)和Ousmane semb的moolaad(2004),这两部电影采用了不同的方法来修复广播。我认为,后殖民时代的非洲媒体背景下,国家影院(诺莱坞除外)举步维艰,广播蓬勃发展,这迫使我们把补救措施的紧张局势解读为当地渲染的、带有政治色彩的紧张局势。当这些媒体在电影上互动时,它们提出了关于视觉、声音和广播的问题,这些问题强化了电影叙事,并挑战了非洲大陆的媒体意识形态。
{"title":"Radio Remediated: Sissako's Life on Earth and Sembène's Moolaadé","authors":"Marissa J. Moorman","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Remediation is a noted phenomenon in cinema studies. How it operates in African films has been less parsed. This article examines Abderrahmane Sissako's La vie sur Terre (1998) and Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé (2004), two films with distinct approaches to the remediation of radio. I argue that postcolonial African media contexts, where national cinemas struggle (Nollywood excepted) and radio thrives, compel us to read remediation's tensions as locally rendered and politically charged. As these media interact on film they pose questions about visuality, sound, and broadcasting that fortify the film narratives and challenge media ideologies of the continent.","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"116 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83185286","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":"MTV and Teen Pregnancy: Critical Essays on 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom ed. by Letizia Guglielmo (review)","authors":"L. Giggey","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"177 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72758421","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:Spike Jonze's Her (2013) is a film about a romantic relationship between a man and an operating system. Using a Lacanian and Žižekian psychoanalytic framework, we interpret this film in the context of what the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher has called "capitalist realism." Referring to the Lacanian thesis that "there is no sexual relationship," we discuss the film's unique treatment of our enjoyment of digital technology and how it deals with the parallel deadlocks of the sexual relationship and the work relationship. We address these topics by looking at how Her deals with the sexual relationship, love, work, and fantasy. The premise of the film is original—suited to the zeitgeist of the digital present—and we claim that it reveals important insights about processes of subjectivization.
{"title":"Love and Sex in the Age of Capitalist Realism: On Spike Jonze's Her","authors":"Matthew Flisfeder, C. Burnham","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0054","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Spike Jonze's Her (2013) is a film about a romantic relationship between a man and an operating system. Using a Lacanian and Žižekian psychoanalytic framework, we interpret this film in the context of what the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher has called \"capitalist realism.\" Referring to the Lacanian thesis that \"there is no sexual relationship,\" we discuss the film's unique treatment of our enjoyment of digital technology and how it deals with the parallel deadlocks of the sexual relationship and the work relationship. We address these topics by looking at how Her deals with the sexual relationship, love, work, and fantasy. The premise of the film is original—suited to the zeitgeist of the digital present—and we claim that it reveals important insights about processes of subjectivization.","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"46 36 1","pages":"25 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73302958","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":"Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer (review)","authors":"Alexander Cho","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"72 1","pages":"182 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74834071","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":"Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film by Casey Ryan Kelly (review)","authors":"M. Rogers","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"167 1","pages":"172 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88812114","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":"Mediated Youth Cultures: The Internet, Belonging and New Cultural Configurations eds. by Andy Bennett and Brady Robards (review)","authors":"L. Stein, S. Ross","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"53 3 1","pages":"164 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91064003","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":"Youth Audiences and the Media in the Digital Era: The Intensification of Multimedia Engagement and Interaction","authors":"Valerie Wee","doi":"10.1353/CJ.2017.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CJ.2017.0064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92490,"journal":{"name":"Cinema journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"133 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72932283","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}