...Sarah Ann Wells Abstract Shifting away from the paradigmatic factory gates, this article examines what comes into view as cinema approaches the port. Through a reading of Aloysio Raulino’s experimental short film Santos Port (Brazil, 1978), it shows how the port film is uniquely poised to view...

.... The representation of diva culture in Luigi Pirandello's 1916 film novel Si gira … ( Shoot! ) and the dynamics of the “test performance” in his play Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore ( Six Characters in Search of an Author , 1921, 1925) enable us to revise our sense of how film interacts with older media...

...S. Shankar This essay harnesses the use of translation as a critical method to explore affect in a comparative mode. By way of readings of ethnography (Margaret Trawick's Notes on Love in a Tamil Family ), film (the Hindi-language masala film Guide ), and fiction (Chinua Achebe's Nigerian novel...

... and White would have been a fascinating film, advancing a cross-racial International committed both to left revolutionary politics and modernist experimentation. I then explain Hughes's dubious account by arguing that it enabled him to distance himself from the Soviet-oriented left on his own terms...

... or inexplicable fictional world. Limbotopia not only reflects the loss of temporality in postmodernism but also responds to very specific historical and political configurations. We analyze the incidence of limbotopia in works by Israeli, American, British, Russian, and South Korean writers and film-makers...

... argue that close readings of three texts—the 1955 Freedom Charter, which formed the basis of the New South African constitution; Phaswane Mpe's 2001 novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow ; and the 2006 film Catch a Fire —shed light on globalization as a political-economic-cultural strategy. I suggest...

... images reach their apogee in 1930s films such as Gone with the Wind (1939), Mississippi (1935), and Showboat (1936), all of which portray a Mythic South that is less a specific geographic location than an ideal — or an idyll — less an actual object than a procession of images that proliferate...

...Chih-Wei Chang This essay attempts to “bring out” Roland Barthes as an unnamable textual figure in the Taiwanese writer Chu T'ien-wen's Huangren shouji ( Notes of a Desolate Man ). Chu's “gay novel” is notorious for its narrator's seemingly inexhaustible references to a legion of writers, film...

... the stage with her twelve maids. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 epic novel theater film network mediation Works Cited “A boy's life: Richard Linklater's 12-year project is an epic coming-of-age film.” Film Journal 3 July 2014 . Web. < http://www.filmjournal.com...

...MORADEWUN ADEJUNMOBI University of Oregon 2008 Adamu, Abdalla Uba. “Loud Bubbles from a Silent Brook: Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary Hausa Writing.” Research in African Literatures 37 . 3 ( 2006 ): 133 -53. Adejunmobi, Moradewun. “Nigerian Video Film as Minor Transnational...

... the figure of Shibata Tsunekichi, one of two Japanese experts who learned to operate the Cinématographe Lumière and who shot local scenes as well as the oldest extant Japanese film title Momijigari (1899). In the Iranian case, Askari proposes “craft labor” to describe work requiring special engineering...

... in the Metamorphoses of Ovid.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 93 ( 1962 ): 1 -21. Bellour, Raymond. “The Film Stilled.” Trans. Alison Rowe with Elizabeth Lyon. Camera Obscura 24 ( 1990 ): 99 -123. ____. “Ideal Hadaly.” Camera Obscura 15 ( 1986 ): 111 -34. Benjamin, Walter...

... era. The filmmakers of the “Barcelona school” of the late 1960s and 1970s were especially marked by the kind of anarchic spirit and vague libertinism of films like Accattone (1961) or Mamma Roma (1962). But the subtitles for these films were actually written by the poet José Agustín Goytisolo...

.... Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin. New York: Routledge, 1993 . 307 -20. Deleuze, Gilles. Essays: Critical and Clinical . Trans. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997 . Fire . Dir. Deepa Mehta. Trial by Fire Films, 1998...

... that emerged during three distinct moments, or phase transitions, during China’s transformation from a Communist state (that experi- mented with a capitalist alterity) to a global capitalist superpower and the world’s second largest economy. In each section Li takes two chapters to explore films from...

.... The rise and fall of the famed biennial Tashkent Film Festival (1968–88) as the key platform of Soviet engagement with third-world cinema is explored in chapter 4. Drawing on ample photographical evidence, copious archival research, journalistic reports, and personal accounts, the chapter recreates...

...-wing flat kite reddens the film’s muted palette of grime and haze with a bright splash of colorful saturation, as if to puncture the black-and-white visual idiom associated with the port’s industrialization. A lyrical voice-over, scripted and recited in Dutch by the poet Gerrit Kouwenaar, commands...