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Changes in Women’s Representations in Turkish Cinema from the 1980s to the Early 1990s CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Fatma Özen
This article focuses on the representations of women alongside the social and historical background of Turkish cinema from the 1980s through the early 1990s. In the following section, I articulate the political events in the 1980s - the early1990s and its impacts on Turkish society and cinema. I delve into the modernist representations of women in the 1980s cinema to analyze women’s gender codes (based
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Real, Reel and the Anthropocene: Eco-trauma Testimonies in the Film Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Bibin Thomas,Reju George Mathew
The paper attempts to read the Endosulfan disaster in Kerala as an instance of the Anthropocene wherein the unscientific use of a pesticide resulted in the persistent misery of a population and the ecology in which they struggle to survive. The suffering is further presented to a larger audience through the film Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal (2015, Dir. Dr Biju) by assimilating the reel and the real
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Some Problems with Gendered Subjectivity and Representation: Baise Moi and Hard-Core Pornography CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
Based on a framework developed by the works of critical theorists Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, this article focuses on a reconceptualization of the relationship between representation on screen and the production of sexualities in order to examine the discourse around the film Baise Moi (Despentes and Trinh Thi, 2000). There have been criticisms about the film’s pornographic and violent elements
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Reading the Simultaneous Motion and Reality Bending Concepts through Doctor Strange CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Gülşah Uner,Ebru Erdogan
In order to exemplify the interaction between architecture and science fiction films, Doctor Strange (2016), one of today's cinema examples, was chosen because of that the special effects created in computer environment by transferring the dreams to the film have a surrealist effect on the film; of the fantastic spaces that arise with the deformation of real places become the main character of the
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Mapping Yeşilçam: A relational approach to the Turkish film industry CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Serkan Savk,Burak Dogu
Turkey’s Yeşilçam film industry produced more than 5500 films during its lifetime of 40 years. The industry had a unique narrative approach shaped around its economic model, Turkey’s ambivalent connection with modernization and the country’s domestic culture. Yet, particular characteristic qualities of the industry remained rather limited up until the last decade, in which vast databases were built
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Yilmaz Güney’s The Fields of Yuréghir and Arkadaş: From Despair to Hope CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Stephen Carruthers
This article discusses two relatively unknown works of Yilmaz Güney in the English-speaking world: Boynu Bükük Öldüler (They Bowed their Heads in Shame),1 a semi-autobiographical novel, which in 1972 won the Orhan Kémel prize, and Arkadaş (The Friend), a film released in Turkey by Güney Film in 1974. More than ten years separate these two works. The Fields of Yuréghir was written during Güney’s imprisonment
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Coming of Age in the Diaspora: Bollywood and the Representation of Second Generation British Indian Diaspora CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Utsa Mukherjee,Anil Pradhan,Ravinder Barn
Bollywood films are a unique visual repository of India’s public imaginings, and they can, therefore, serve as guides to how India sees its past, present, and aspirational future (Dwyer, 2010). Through close intertextual readings of three key popular films depicting British Indian youth, this article explores the ways in which the UK-born/raised second-generation Indian diaspora has come to be represented
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Post-Coloniality: Projection of Ghana In Video-Films CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Augustine Danso
The rise of the mainstream video industry has been significant towards socio-cultural and economic development in Ghana; however, this study will not focus on the impacts of the video industry of Ghana. This article primarily examines the image construction of Ghana in video-films. Over the past few years, videofilms in Post-colonial Ghana have often been critiqued by film scholars and critics for
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Locating the Storyteller in Silent Waters: Sabiha Sumar’s Cinematic Tale of Shared Histories and Divided Identities CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Rahat Imran
In her multi award-winning feature film Silent Waters (2003), Pakistani woman filmmaker Sabiha Sumar connects the socio-political traumas of the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan (1947) with the onset of military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamization period (1977-1988) in Pakistan. Presenting a story based on real-life events, the film focuses on the impact of religious fundamentalism
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Rocky Balboa: The Innocent and the Invincible Hero of Low Income Class CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Yildirim Uysal
This study is aiming to scrutinize that how American low income class is represented in Rocky Balboa film series in regards of Rocky Balboa character. It will try to understand the mission which is given to Rocky along the film series by examining the concepts such as the values which Rocky represents, class standing, moving up in social ladder, etc. in the scripts of Rocky movies. The life line of
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The world of Assamese celluloid: ‘yesterday and today’ CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Violet Barman Deka
The study explores the entire journey of the Assamese cinema, which means a journey that will narrate many stories from its past and present, furthermore also will try to analyze its future potential. This paper deals with the trends emerging in genres, technical advancement, and visual representation along with a cult that emphasized the commercial success of cinema by toeing the style of Bollywood
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“not conducive for sobriety”: Sex Addiction and Neoliberal Masculinity in Don Jon and Thanks for Sharing CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Joel Gwynne
Thanks for Sharing (2012) and Don Jon (2013), share similarities in their representation of the lives of unmarried men who are all approaching midlife, and who are all struggling to build meaningful, monogamous, long term attachments with women. In Thanks for Sharing, Adam (Mark Ruffalo) is addicted to brief encounters with numerous partners in contexts devoid of emotional intimacy, while a fellow
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The Millennial Antinostalgic: Yoav in Nadav Lapid’s Synonymes CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Jora Vaso
In contemporary, transnational exilic cinema exile an artist is made in an exilic journey. The 21st century journey departs from entirely opposite premises than those of the ancient journey, namely with the desire to escape one’s birthplace. The aim of the exile has also transformed: from a necessary step to secure one’s livelihood or even life, it has become one of exploration. Rather than the desire
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Diversity and Inclusion in Film, Television and Media Sector: Policy Alternatives for an Inclusive Film Industry and Training CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Murat Akser
This issue of CINEJ Cinema Journal observed the slow recovery from the destructive effects of COVID-19 global pandemic on filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, and teaching film at HE institutions. One development that is on the agenda is diversity and inclusion in film industry, film education and film studies/criticism as institution. The diversity of film sets has been voiced and is gaining
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Review of Shoe Reels: The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Nilay Ulusoy
Ezra, E. (2020). Shoe Reels: The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. xi + 293 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4744-5140-6
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I’ll be back? The Deconstruction of the 1980s and the 1990s Hard Body Movies CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Moshe Machlev
The following essay discusses the cultural factors that inspired the “hard body” movies of the 1980’s and 1990’s, but it also describes the changes that occurred, later on, that contributed to the deconstruction of those movies. The hard body movies were characterized by having a reoccurring set of actors (Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Van Damme) and themes (facing adversaries in a forceful manner)
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Baudrillard, Hyperreality, and the Evil in Othello and The Hateful Eight CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Pouria Torkamaneh,Farhad Poordakan,Pedram Lalbakhsh
Shakespeare’s tragedies and Quentin Tarantino’s aesthetically violent films bear striking similarities in the problematization of both villainy and reality. Such concerns reverberate the most in Othello (1604) and The Hateful Eight (2015). Although critical scholarship about both works abounds, this essay offers an alternative approach by consulting the thoughts of Jean Baudrillard on the issues of
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Review of A Christian Approach to Cinema: Tarkovsky. Film as Prayer CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Ioan Buteanu
Elena Dulgheru. Tarkovsky. Film as Prayer (A Poetic of the Sacred in the Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky)/Romanian: Filmul ca rugăciune (O poetică a sacrului în cinematogaful lui Andrei Tarkovski)/, second edition, Arca Învierii Publishing House, 2020.
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Formation Of The Ambiguous Heroic Archetype: Three Jewish-American Film Actors And The United States’ Film System, 1929-1948 CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 John Thomas McGuire
As Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell note, archetypes, or general ideas of human types, strongly influence societies, particularly the heroic archetype. Since the 1890s mainstream cinema has facilitated the heroic archetype for worldwide audiences. This article argues that Paul Muni (1895-1967), Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973), and John Garfield (1913-1952) became the first important Jewish-American film
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Cinema: Not Frames But Veils CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Maria del Carmen Molina Barea
The aim of this paper is to rethink the metaphors of the cinema as window and frame. The first one addresses the cinema as a transparent, open window that faithfully reproduces the world, taking the spectator’s view beyond the screen guided by realism and indexicality. The second one takes the screen as a rectangular surface that focuses the audience’s eye on the images that are produced inside its
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Female Representation in Select Films of Frank Rajah Arase: Evidence of Male Chauvinist Tendencies in the Ghanaian Film Culture CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Osakue S. Omoera,Charles C. Okwuowulu
There has been constant resonance of feminine image misrepresentation in most narratives since the (re)invention of video-films in Nigeria, Ghana, and indeed across the African continent. In spite of the binary struggle between the (presumed) chauvinist filmmakers and their feminist counterparts, masculinity always (re)emerges in new forms or topoi to dominate femininity. Consequently, there seems
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Review of Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Melanie Wilmink
J. Murphy and L. Rascaroli (Eds.). Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art Expanding Cinema. 302 pp. ISBN: 9789462989467
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Review of Towards A Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Marco Poloni
Lie, S. (2020). Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film. Amsterdam University Press.
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Disgraced of the West, Deserted of the East: Men in the Films Shame and Issız Adam (Alone) CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Selen Gökçem Akyıldız
Apart from being shot in almost the same decades, Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011) and Issız Adam (Çağan Irmak, 2008) have other analogies that require to study on. Even though both men live in different cultures and have different relationship models, they struggle in life concurrently. While Steve McQueen’s Shame focuses on uncompromising sex addiction that overthrows a man’s life, Çağan Irmak’s Issız
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The reception of Cameroon Films and home videos in student residential areas: the case of Bambili – Cameroon CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Paul Animbom Ngong
Film as a medium of communication uses visual and auditory signs between senders and receivers. It is considered as one of the most influential areas of media. The art form in Cameroon is valorised more through the home video system caused principally by the closure of theatre halls and the advent of cable TV channels dedicated to the broadcasting of movies for home consumption and the emergence of
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Waking (Dreaming): A Vedantic Reflection on Richard Linklater’s Waking Life CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Jaya Upadhyay
This is a reading of the film Waking Life (2001) in the framework of the Indic philosophy of ‘Vedanta,’ more specifically the ‘Advaita’ or the non-dual school of Vedanta. The film’s narrative is constructed out of the protagonist’s dreamscapes. The itinerant protagonist moves through conversations within his dreams, trying to make sense of his ‘wake walking’ situation. These conversations take the
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“About Miracles”: Seeing the “real thing” in Hong Sang-soo’s Woman on the Beach and Éric Rohmer’s Le Rayon vert CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Jacob Hovind
Hong Sang-soo’s cinema is one in which his characters consistently avoid reality, whether by constructing explanatory narratives and patterns or by turning other people into emotionally projected images. Woman on the Beach (2007), I argue, openly diagnoses this tendency and finds instead what one of its characters calls “the real thing.” Placing this film in the context of Hong’s oeuvre as a whole
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Portrayal of Women in Contemporary Nollywood Films: Isoken and King of Boys in Focus CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Emwinromwankhoe Osakpolor
This study investigates the portrayal of women in contemporary Nollywood films, using Isoken (2017) and King of Boys (2018) as case studies. The objective was to highlight the various ways in which women in the films are portrayed to viewers and ascertain whether contemporary Nollywood movies are an improvement on the issues of gender stereotypes and sexism which are hitherto prevalent in the industry
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The Social Implications of Metaphor in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Alireza Farahbakhsh,Ramtin Ebrahimi
The purpose of the present article is to study the social implications of repetitive metaphors in the film and of the word Parasite (2019) and to observe what makes the life of a lower-class family parasitic within a typical capitalistic society. In the mainstream discussion, the metaphorical functions of such words as ‘smell,’ ‘insects,’ ‘the rock,’ and ‘the party’ are assessed within the context
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Review of Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Negar Taymoorzadeh
Michelle Langford, Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. xiii + 278 pp. ISBN 9781780762982
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Review of The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Sebastián Francisco Maydana
Basil Glynn, The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema. International Library of the Moving Image. Bloomsbury, 2019. 216 pp. ISBN 9781788314084 (hardcover). $115.00.
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Review of The Supernatural Sublime: The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Shannon Skelton
Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer, The Supernatural Sublime: The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xii + 304 pp. ISBN 9781496214249, $55.00 (hbk)
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A Reading of Bhabendra Nath Saikia's Films from Feminist Lens CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Minakshi Dutta
Feminist movement deconstructs the constructed images of women on the screen as well. The gap between real and reel woman is a vibrant topic of discussion for the feminist scholars. As a regional genre of Indian film industry Assamese film flourished during the third decades of twentieth century. Like the films of other parts of the world, Assamese films also constructing the image of woman, particularly
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“Billions in Debt and Still Surviving”: Curing the Female Shopper in Confessions of a Shopaholic CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Meghna Sapui
This paper analyses P.J. Hogan’s Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) in three sections. In the first section, it studies how the film maps shopping as an illness that needs to be cured onto the body of its female heroine. It does so, as is argued here, by portraying her as a patient suffering from Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD). In the second part, it traces how Confessions necessitates the cure of
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Review of Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Nick Poulakis
Michel Chion, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xxvi + 270 pp. ISBN 9780231185899, $30.00 (pbk)
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Antiochia As A Cinematic Space and Semir Aslanyürek as a Film Director From Antiochia CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Selma Köksal Çekiç
This study will look at cinematic representation of Antiochia, a city with multiple identities, with a multi-cultural, long and deep historical background in Turkish director Semir Aslanyürek’s films. The article will focus on Aslanyürek’s visual storytelling through his beloved city, his main characters and his main conflicts and themes in his films Şellale (2001), Pathto House (2006), 7 Yards (2009)
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The Study of Rubaiyat attributed to Khayyam in Movies CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Milad Minakar,Amir Hossein Chitsazian
Among the literati and men of culture of Iran, it is not exaggerated to call Khayyam one of the vaguest figures. One might recognize him certainly and resolutely through his philosophical and scientific works; however, it was his Rubaiyat attributed to him which created many arguments. This paper studies Hakim Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat in English and Persian language feature and non-biographical movies;
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Transformation of Love in the Digital Age: The film Her and Reaching God through the love in the Perspective of Sufism CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Aybike Serttaş
In this research, two forms of love; digital love and the love for God are the chosen themes to analyse the movie Her with the method of semiotic analysis. Mentioning the differences between love simulacrums created in social media and love in real life, the semiotic analysis of the movie Her is carried out with the indicators that match the criteria to find God through love in Sufism. As a result
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Transformation of Comedy with Streaming Services: The Case of Bartu Ben CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Nisa Yıldırım
Comedy has always been one of the most popular genres in Turkish cinema and television series. As the distinction between film and series has begun to blur in the post-television era, narratives are transforming according to the characteristics of the new medium. Streaming services targeting niche audience offer more freedom to creators of their content. This article aims to study the comedy series
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Emerging Discourses, Changing Perspectives: Iraq in Oscar Documentary Films CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Abida Ashraf
Documentary film has become an important tool to seek information. This study shows how documentaries are projecting skepticism and sarcasm of Iraqi people due to volatile, uncertain complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions. The fims discussed in this study consists of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary films from 2003 to 2011 with a total of 45 films. The year 2003 is selected for its demarcation
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“Youtuber Movies” From New Media to the Cinema CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Barış Tolga Ekinci
Today, the new media has become an inseparable part of the daily life. Since the internet and the social media have become widely available, the new media has been effective in socio-cultural changes and transformations. On the other hand, this process, which is also called as digitalization, is not only effective in the new media. The relation between the traditional media and the new media has also
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The Effects of Film Illumination Hues – An Exploration Study CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Mustafa Mahmoud Yousry Matbouly
This study is an attempt to investigate the ability of different colors used in cinematic lighting designs to affect audience’s impressions towards the appearance and mood of film characters. The study critically appraised existing cinematic lighting techniques and identified the two basic color groups (i.e., warm and cold colors) that should be examined in order to answer the research questions and
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A Moebial Ride through Polanski’s Repulsion CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Defne Tüzün
This article examines Roman Polanski’s film Repulsion from a psychoanalytic perspective by attending Julia Kristeva’s notion of abjection. This paper deals primarily with two main focal points. First, it focuses on the film’s portrayal of the protagonist, Carole’s abjection, her problem of non-differentiation, as evidenced by her relation to the maternal body and to corporeality. Secondly, the article
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Evaluation of Neurocinema as An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Science CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Abdorreza Naser Moghadasi
Neurocinema is considered as one of the emerging interdisciplinary sciences and relies on neuroscience discoveries to explore various aspects of the movie effect on the viewer’s brain. The mentioned science not only investigates this effect but also seeks to answer how a good movie takes control of the neural pathways. Another part of neurocinema investigates movies that their content includes patients’
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The Urbanization of Labor and Its Struggle for Unionism in Turkish Cinema CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Hasan Yüksel
The main purpose of the study is to investigate the emergence of labor and its struggle for unionism in Turkey in parallel to the process of urbanization on the basis of a particular Turkish employee film named after The Blood Money (Diyet). What I am trying to argue is that labor has become a labor and unionism has converted into a professional and institutional background in the aftermath of the
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Crushing Life in the Anthropocene? Destroying Simulated "Nature" in The Cabin in the Woods CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Michael Fuchs
The Cabin in the Woods (2011) is a highly self-reflexive movie that is aware of its generic roots. In particular, the film struggles with the meaning of “the woods” in the horror genre. Cabin ’s central twist in this respect is that the titular “woods” are not untamed nature, but rather a place of artifice. Cabin ’s woods are not uncanny because they are far removed from “civilization,” but rather
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Cinema, Life and Other Viruses: The Future of Filmmaking, Film Education and Film Studies in the Age of Covid-19 Pandemic CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Murat Akser
This issue of CINEJ Cinema Journal witnessed the devastating effects of COVID-19 global pandemic on filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, and teaching film at HE institutions. Global shifts in production and distribution gave rise to new stars, streaming services. The diversity of film sets was gaining momentum as film productions were halted. Ne reports and new investment for the future of
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Wild Pear Trees, Patrimonial Legacies: Father-Son Relationship in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's The Wild Pear Tree CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Coşkun Liktor
This article analyzes the father-son relationship in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film The Wild Pear Tree (2018), which tells the story of a son who desires a life as unlike his father’s narrow, provincial life as possible, only to find himself following in his father’s footsteps almost against his will. Drawing upon Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this article examines the film as an oedipal drama
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Shattered Identity of Immigrant Artist and Creation of Art in a Hybridized Space: The Case Study of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Hoda Shabrang
In this article, first the “paradox of assimilation and difference” and its consequences will be discussed and next the movie A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by Ana Lily Amirpour who is an immigrant IranianAmerican director will be analyzed. The aim is to show how her shattered identity as an immigrant is represented in her art. Her movie is an amalgamation of different signs from both cultures. These
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An analytical study of the ritual ceremonies in Iranian performing arts, a case study of Travellers CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Shiva Khalili Kolahian
Rites and myths are important parts of the identity and the culture of every nation. Iranian rites and performing arts, as a part of Iranian art and culture, which has always got attention throughout history, can help us recognize ancient Iranian culture and history. Cinema, among other interactive arts, has sometimes been able to portray ritual arts well. Travellers, made by Bahram Beyzai, is one
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review of Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Negar Taymoorzadeh
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From Box office to memory: Telling stories is not an innocent act CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-04-16 Ayla Kanbur
Throughout human history to narrate have had crucial function to construct a society with meanings culturally binding its members and to sustain them for generations in society. Epic stories, proverbs, historical tales are such narratives which, in particular, form patterns for the “shared conceptual framework” of members of a culture. Thus, narratives, in a broadest sense circulate within a society
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Review of The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Dorian Bowen
Review of Patrick Keating, The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xi + 349 pp. ISBN 9780231190510, $35.00 (pbk).
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Cinema And Society In The Light Of Emile Zola’s Naturalism CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Hossein Shahin Karbalaeetaher
This study will seek to discuss the essential impact of Emile Zola’s naturalism regarding the role of cinema in projecting social issues. To be clear on how cinema has got involved with social issues and has become an effective art form for distributing social messages and encouraging social changes, this study first will give a detailed historical background on the relationship between cinema itself
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Politics of Succession in Nollywood Films, Saworoide and Ikoka CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Osakue S. Omoera, Chukwuma Anyanwu
Employing the media representation theory, this article uses the historical-analytic, key informant interview (KII) and observation methods to interrogate the issue of politics of succession in Nigeria as portrayed in Saworoide (1999, dir. Tunde Kelani) and Ikoka (2004, dir. Peddie Okao). Apart from highlighting the kind of challenges which politics evokes in the country and the possible ways of remediating
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Performing Heteronormativity: The Discourse of the College Hook up Culture and Sexuality CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Ziya Toprak
This paper focuses on the college hook up culture and slut discourse. I analyze the documentary feature ‘‘Spitting Game: The College Hook Up Culture’’ that present a provocative sense of the hook up culture. Drawing from the narratives of students presented in the documentary, I argue that the college hook up culture is bounded with heteronormativity, where participants of the culture are performing
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Remembering Thomas Elsaesser and Peter Wollen CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Murat Akser
Late in 2019 film studies lost two of its founding members that help define the field as a discipline with their work in the last 50 years. Thomas Elsaesser was one of the founding members of the editorial board of CINEJ Cinema Journal . His contribution to the study of German Cinema, founding of Amsterdam School of Cultural Studies and training of countless PhD students in the field will be a long-lasting
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Cinema, Human Rights And Development: The Cinema As A Pedagogical Practice CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Leilane Serratine Grubba
This article seeks to rethink the importance of the cinema as a teaching and learning methodology of Law. Much is said about the importance of different methodologies to the teaching and learning of Law, such as cinema, music and literature. But there is not much said about why it is important. In this sense, the question to be solved is: why cinema can be used as an important pedagogical practice
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Deglamming as Estrangement: Ugly in Monster, The Hours, and Cake CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Sharrona Pearl
In this paper, I explore female actresses undergoing radical or seemingly radical physical transformation in service of a broader kind of career transformation. I problematize the simple calculation of deglamming, thinking more closely about the ways that celebrity structure raises challenges to actors and especially actresses attempting to engage with against-type characters. I turn specifically to
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Review of Cinema/Politics/Philosophy CINEJ Cinema Journal Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Anthony James Ballas
Review of Nico Baumbach, Cinema/Politics/Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 248 pp. ISBN 9780231184236, $28.00 (pbk)