Search Results for New French Extremism

...Mauro Resmini This article examines a recent tendency in contemporary art cinema—the New French Extremity (NFE)—and focuses specifically on a critique of the scholarly discourse that has flourished around it in recent years. The fundamental argument of this discourse can be summarized as follows...

...Ora Gelley The French director Catherine Breillat has in recent years become a kind of figurehead for what has been perceived by many as a new trend in contemporary European cinema toward extreme representations of violence and graphic sexuality. As a consequence of the controversy provoked...

... Linda Liu Occult Anxieties and the Recessionary Imaginary in the Paranormal Activity Franchise. No. 90: pp. 61 – 91 Diana Adesola Mafe Race and the First-Person Shooter: Challenging the Video Gamer in BioShock Infinite. No. 89: pp. 89 – 123 Mauro Resmini Reframing the New French...

... and others and about issues that are not frequently explored or addressed in academic writing. My interest in questions of female spectatorship was shaped in the early-to-mid-1970s by three perspectives: those of film studies, French literary theory and feminism. These three “new...

... Sea beach outside.8 In many ways, what was shown on the screens of the festi- val was as excessive as the pandemonium in the casino hall. The new tendency in experimental lmmaking pointed toward the extreme: on the one hand, psychedelic, hallucinating works with soft-focus images...

...Ros Murray This article assesses the impact and import of 1970s French feminist video collectives, focusing on the relationship between technology, subjectivity, and embodiment. It investigates how early portable video technology provided the tools for an exploration of subjectivity as collective...

... Language," was a pioneering work in the evolution of China's new cinema when it was published in 1979. In 1981, she directed her first film, The Drive to Win, about the life of a woman basketball player. After another period teaching in the Academy, she completed her second film, Sacrificed Youth...

...),2 which mapped the field of cinema semiotics into the study of codes and the study of textual systems. Metz’s early work was disseminated in English primarily by the British journal Sc~een,~which in 1971 experienced an editorial rupture resulting in a sustained engagement with new...

... The Camera Obscura Collective French Feminism Syntactical hesitation: Ywelthey. The third person plural signifies dis- tance, taking French feminists as the object of a discourse. The first person plural signifies solidarity, describing the women I have loved and with whom I have worked over...

...Jane Weinstock Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) Out of Her Mind: Fantasies of the 26th New York Film Festival by Jane Weinstock You could say it was the Year of the Other at the New...

... in the world of American and French film scholarship. The founding assumptions about history and the body in Italian cinema can be better understood if we turn, for a moment, away from the two models generally used to discuss identification and narrative -the Lacanian...

... for The Handmaiden 's depictions of colonial fetish. In pink and ero film, we find a kind of proliferation that echoes Kouzuki's library of imitations: for example, the French New Wave erotic film Emmanuelle (dir. Just Jaeckin, France, 1974) inspired both the Japanese production Tokyo Emmanuelle (dir. Akira...

... is a French film not really French? . . . When it’s La Femme Nikita. —Caryn James, “Word from Nikita: Hold the Subtitles,” New York Times (5 May 1991) Europe is trying to make movies like Hollywood, heaven help us all. Style over substance, technology over artistry, box office over everything. —Bill...

... in translation), The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller,2 announced the arrival of a compelling new voice in contemporary history-writing and historical reflection. Using the court records of Menocchio, a miller tried for heresy for having evolved an entire and elaborate...

.... Like Braunberger and Dauman, Beauregard produced small-scale films and generally eschewed corporate finance in favor of a mix of loans, inheritances, and state aid. Out of this low-budget model came many landmark films of the French New Wave, including The 400 Blows ( Les quatre cents coups , dir...

... openly rebels against the unreasonable patriarchal rigidity of her father and her religion. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library The Americanization of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, and the New Woman Sara Ross The film career of Tsuru Aoki in the teens and twenties...

..., on the Feminar Conference held at Northwestern University in November, 1980, and a Book Review, of New French Feminisms, an important, extremely relevant, and somewhat controversial collection of essays. Both these sections will become regular features with the purpose of providing coverage of public...

... aristocrats wearing their court finery, Coppola creates a new image, one based on the pastel palate of brightly colored French pastries from the renowned gourmet cake boutique Ladu- rée. Referring to the finished film metaphorically as both a painting and a photograph, Barrett declares...

... Enfants was the most widely read and loved of the nineteenth-century “reading books” or primers used in French schools. Madame Alfred Jules Emile Fouilke, writing under the pseudonym “G. Bruno,” tells the story of two orphan boys who travel through every province and major city of France...

... that such a book-the most explicit record of a long-running encounter between two of the most important figures in contemporary French thought-will hold for anyone interested in the development of the French intellectual scene in recent years, Deleuze's book is one of the most explicit and thorough...