...Suzanne Gauch Relating the trajectory of a young Franco-Moroccan woman who returns to her native city of Fez and embraces a mystical form of Islam, Farida Benlyazid's 1988 feature film A Door to the Sky has become a mainstay at international women's film festivals and in classes on gender...

...Moon Charania This article looks at two controversial war films— Eye in the Sky (dir. Gavin Hood, UK/South Africa, 2015) and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (dir. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, US, 2016)—both of which feature white female protagonists as conflicted but central participants in the racialized...

...Janet Bergstrom © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986 Liyirrd Sky (Sl,iv,i Tsukerrnan, 1982) Androids and Androgyny Junet Bergs trom The overwhelming response of the young public to Star Wars in 1977 sparked an unforeseen renaissance in the popularity of science fiction films. Star Wars...

...” emphasizes the predominance of set design over character and plot development in films like Blade Runner and Liquid Sky. In part this emphasis on set design stems from trends in contemporary advertising to control the total perceptual field. The article describes the commodification...

... accompanies our journey out of the living room and into the blue sky, the early moments are optimistic, but they are also fleeting. The sound of a military jet sears the song, and we are grounded once more. Driving along the road, the passenger's view is flanked by the Separation Wall, its cement slabs topped...

... reversal or negative. Each is the same dive, but the colors are complementary (e.g., the blue water is red, the whitish sky is black, etc The editing is complex in that each dive is divided into five-frame sections; dive I (frames 1-5) is cut next to dive 2 (frames I-5...

... to be a blue sky- until the camera pulls back and reveals the sky, and the building juxtaposed against it, to be part of a billboard that forms a background to his conversation. As a technical trope that implies movement, classical perspective as represented by a painting like Piero...

... by the water's edge, and other images whose meanings are quite personal because they cannot be linked through direct association to any of the other scenes-flowers, a lawn chair, horses and a static view of a sky through a window. The sound-track from the wedding (the sermon, church choir...

.... State University of New York Press, 1992. Picture This: A Guide to Over 300 Environmentally, Socially, and Politically Relevant Films and Videos by Sky Hiatt. Noble Press, 1992. $12.95. ...

.... In particular, the small changes at the grass roots level are a gradual but irreversible aspect of any major changes we hope to bring about. The crumbs of reform are not to be scoffed at as long as the pie of revolution remains in the sky. As yet, there are relatively few “Women’s...

... buildings, domes, and art deco sky- scrapers in diminishing shades of gray; street ramps and express- ways suspended stories high; great yawning depths; tiny cars mov- ing on the suspended ramps; biplanes wafting through the upper thoroughfares; and, if you are sharp-eyed, cryptic words on build- ings...

..., the image stilled and ever present, which accompanied her lectures on Up To and Including Her Limits (1971–76): her body is poised and aloft, suspended in a harness on a rope, long hair flung back, arms outstretched, face upturned toward the sky, flying, free, her body become both painter's brush...

... the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, Edward Said states that “since the main features of our present existence [in Palestine] are dispos- session, dispersion, and yet also a kind of power incommensurate with our stateless exile, I believe that essentially unconventional, hybrid, and fragmentary...

... the rest of the film — and the lyrics emphasize her heroic assign- ment (“Are we crazy, deranged to stand up for some change The sequence climaxes as we see the wing of a plane lifting off into the sky. Our feminist heroine, briefed, trained, and ready, is off and bound for Turkey, where she films...

... and individualism with the deployment of the female voice in a technocultural context. Jennifer Nedel- sky glosses the argument connecting liberalism to individual- ism: Liberalism takes atomistic individuals as the basic units of political and legal theory and thus fails to recognize the inherently social nature...

... interior; green-leafed, springlike branches against a blue sky (while birds sing); a golden autumnal tree; the blue way station flag waving brightly against a blue sky; trees budding against a blue sky with cirrus clouds gently dissolving into the blue and the background of the shot (similar...

... unsympathetic, the high angle and medium-long shot of the credit sequence create Jasmin as a lonely and sympathetic charac- ter. The credits end with a shot of Jasmin, turned toward the audi- ence, framed by two light phenomena in the sky, and the direc- tor’s...

.... All of the other material which is presented goes through a deconstruction and questioning process-except for those images (flowers, lawn chairs, a sky view out of a window) which seem to represent your personal memory -the spectator can only second guess MK: I did want there to be an aspect...

... acceptable sign, the shape of the cervix, the neck of the uterus. Yes, in the world of director Jan de Bont and screenwriters Crichton and Martin, the tornado is a big angry cervix in the sky. The storm, meanwhile, is the dangerous but thrilling prelude to conception...

... of the film Raynal, as narratorI director tells us: Youwill see a young girl in a train, then I'll tell you a few little stories, then we'll do the pharmacy sequence. At the end there will be a real fall For the sequence on man we'll see simultaneously an extreme close- up with a sky...