Issue 41
Modernity and the Film Exhibition Industry in Gippsland: The Glover Family Business 1926-1973
Marshall Berman claims that modernity “pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal” (1). This article contends that successful exhibition in country
Dziga Vertov: The Idiot
The Austrian Film Museum’s excellent DVD of Vertov’s Entuziazm affords the occasion for an insightful essay on the work of this legendary Soviet filmmaker
From Colonial Film Commissioner to Political Pariah: Joris Ivens and the Making of Indonesia Calling
Appointed Film Commissioner of The Netherlands East Indies on 28 September 1944, in September and October of the following year Joris Ivens directed Indonesia Calling
Mapping Catalonia in 1967: The Barcelona School in Global Context
A comprehensive overview of the regional and global imperatives that shaped the historically fascinating 1960s avant-garde movement known as the Barcelona School
“The Illusion of Magnitude”: Adapting the Epic from Film to Television
When Giuseppe de Liguoro’s Homer’s Odyssey (1910) was released in the U.S. in 1912, a review in The Moving Picture World praised it for beginning
Rethinking Transnational Cinema: The Case of Tamil Cinema
In a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, Steven Vertovec suggests that, while there have been a variety of uptakes on transnationalism,
Working Together: Two Cultures, One Film, Many Canoes
An examination of director Rolf de Heer’s unique collaboration with the Yolngu people of Ramingining of Northern Australia on Ten Canoes and the behind-the-scenes documentary
Clearly, Clearly, Dark-Eyed Donna: Time and A Scanner Darkly
A discussion of Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel in relation to the broader context of the filmmaker’s œuvre and his obsession with
“Caught Between Poetry and Censorship”: The Influence of State Regulation and Sufi Poeticism on Contemporary Iranian Cinema
Since the early 1990s, contemporary Iranian cinema, with its culture of auteurism and poetic consciousness, has continued to inspire lively critical discourse and popular acclaim.
Memories are Made of This: Bill Morrison’s The Film of Her
An essay on one of Morrison’s classic found-footage documentaries. A story of ‘forgotten films’ and ‘forgotten careers’, and the dynamics of remembering