...Olivia Landry Abstract The 2020 Netflix drama series Unorthodox draws on tropes from a vexed archive of transcultural cinema, in particular Turkish German cinema. Through the frame of the captivity narrative, this essay examines how the series about a young Hasidic Jewish woman who escapes her...

... 2002 Books Received Adams, Rachel. Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Aitken, Ian. European Film Theory and Cinema: A Critical Introduction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Cheng...

...Raya Morag The remarkable gendered renaissance of post–Khmer Rouge (KR) New Cambodian Cinema is evidenced in recent years through first- and second- generation post-traumatic films. This article analyzes one prominent example—Lida Chan and Guillaume P. Suon’s Noces Rouges ( Red Wedding , Cambodia...

... in interesting ways here. On the one hand, his vision of Palestinian femininity appears to offer a realm of connectivity and of transcultural gendered alliance that effectively dissolves Contested Visions of Palestinian Cinema  •  13 the power structures between oppressor...

... with the Young German Cinema filmmakers of the 1960s and continuing with the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s, works by the most celebrated German directors such as Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder have all explicitly engaged in the task of critical...

...Nadia Sophia Sanko The story of Carmen (Mérimée 1845, Bizet 1875), the (in)famous Gypsy from Spain, is the second most adapted narrative in the history of world cinema with more than eighty global versions officially recognized to date; however, one significant and critical version has been...

... Halle Translation by Sabine Czylwik European cinema is in transformation. The geopolitical changes of the European map as well as the new transnational economy have altered the politics of film. To provide reflections...

...Angelica Fenner Camera Obscura 2000 Angelica Fenner is a lecturer in cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She recently completed a dissertation on the representation of Afro-Germans in early West German cinema and has published several...

... propose “evocative” or autobiographical narration on the part of the ethnographer as a postmodern strategy for challenging real- ist notions of empirical evidence, self-­present voice, and coherent subjectivity.13 This paradigm of the “self as journey” — ­also adopted recently by the cinema scholar...

...), the late 1990s industry downturn, and the burgeoning international cult of Hong Kong cinema. Hollywood began poaching Hong Kong talent in 1993 when John Woo was hired to direct Hard Tar- get, but a number of other prominent Hong Kongers have fol- lowed, including Tsui Hark, Chow-yun Fat, Jackie Chan...

... in 1980s cinema to television roles of surpris- ing depth (The West Wing [NBC, 1999 – 2006], Brothers and Sisters [ABC, 2006 – 11]) and comic charm (Parks and Recreation [NBC, 2009 – 15 In another such instance, Jay’s voice- over apparently informs viewers of an episode’s deeper meaning...

...” The Intimacies of Globalization  •  35 of community, labour and capital; new are the awareness of global ecological dangers and the corresponding arenas of action; new is the inescapable perception of transcultural Others in one’s life, with all the contradictory certainties resulting from it; new...

... and mechanical production that supports this techno-historical link, a much longer, transcultural, and pan-regional history of carpet and textile weaving outside Europe is getting overlooked in these imperial techno-accounts. More crucially, the carpet as the computer's predecessor technology is a reminder...