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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 304–326.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Rob Coley The formerly dissident status of the essay film has, in recent years, been exchanged for a great deal of favorable attention both inside and outside academia. In the more overly moralistic commentary on the form, the contemporary essay film is submitted as a tactical response to a surfeit...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Rebecca Dyer; François Mulot Focusing on two films by Jean-Luc Godard that feature the work of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, this essay analyzes the rhetorical effects of Godard’s choice to subtitle, translate, or speak over Arabic speech and highlights Godard’s decades-long working...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 263–278.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., from his early shorts to the four feature-length films produced so far, sit somewhat uncomfortably between documentary and fiction, embedding at once the argumentative quality of the essay, the erudite precision of the travelogue, and the lyrical suspension of the poem. If it is true, as Theodor...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., and perspective. It explores the compression of time through the acceleration of movement and measures the velocity of a counterculture that has “hopped up” the machinery of repression as it approaches final impact. This essay discusses the film in the context of issues surrounding individual liberty and national...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 375–390.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Steven Morrison Filmed in Shepperton by a director from New York, shaped by a novel by a British author at its inception and influenced by the work of a British cast and crew during its production, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove is explored in this essay as a British–American hybrid. Kubrick’s...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Ian Buchanan This essay argues that the 2006 Ray Lawrence film Jindabyne can be read as a national allegory (in Fredric Jameson's sense of the word) for the cultural politics of the national apology to the indigenous people of Australia made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. It argues that the film...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 358–371.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Sarah Hamblin This essay argues that the conditions of contemporary finance capitalism have exhausted the revolutionary potential of political modernist aesthetics. The global ’68 conjuncture generated many of the fundamental concepts that continue to underscore how contemporary radical film...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 148–158.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Hayley Singer Abstract This essay is a broken elemental thing composed of cuts, by which is meant outtakes. Outtakes are scenes or sequences that never make it into a film. The scenes collected here have been retrieved from the cutting floor of the editing suite in its author's mind and reassembled...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... failed early and caught on late to the need for a globally coordinated response. Coupled with a deep resistance by states to the alienation of any degree of sovereignty to international institutions, the prospect of a global solution to the zombie question remains elusive. This essay offers...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2021
...’ ” of the structural filmmaking movement. It is with this affinity in mind that, in an essay titled “ ‘Ontology’ and ‘Materialism’ in Film,” Wollen ( 1975a : 12) returns to Bazin's ontology to contrast it with the avant-garde's ontological concerns, which, he argues, relocates ontology to “the field of materialism...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 275–286.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Sean Cubitt Ecocritical work on media has developed from a genre criticism of nature-themed films to address cinema, TV, and media arts more broadly as articulations of the human-natural relation and its mediation through technologies. Embracing the environmental impacts of product life cycles...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 333–353.
Published: 01 November 2014
... available, I will question Deleuze’s relationship with Virilio’s work, and I will demonstrate the useful continuities evident in Godard’s recent films. Utilizing Virilio and Godard, this essay will expand Deleuze’s theses on control and media, in line with continuing transformations in the contemporary...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of the twenty-first, which Young has sketched out in the previous chapter. There is also little acknowledgment of how such issues are being debated by theorists and practitioners of these forms, as in contemporary work on the essay film, for example. The book explores this tension, albeit rather unevenly...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 426–429.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in English of French film director Claire Denis since the ground breaking monographs of Martine Beugnet (2004) and Judith Mayne (2005) , this collection of original essays is most welcome. Between then and now, not only has Denis added to her impressive oeuvre with such significant films deserving...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 299–324.
Published: 01 November 2009
... first examine the problematic nature of early Lacanian film theory. The two theorists who had the greatest impact upon film theory in the 1970s were Lacan and the French Marxist, Louis Althusser. In his essay, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” Althusser argues that individuals...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 289–310.
Published: 01 July 2011
... cultures. The transnationality of the four Suarez movies needs serious reconsideration since their creative processes, narratives, industrial collaborations, and appeal to different international markets all reflect the global circularity of film production and consumption. In his essay, Baumgärtel...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 261–268.
Published: 01 November 2008
... the way in which that dispersal and localization also operated in tandem with a desire to locate and specify – to target – in Cold War texts. In the essays in this issue, the sites of Cold War thinking range from Lolita’s body to a VW campervan in Kansas; from the bars of Saigon to an England in which...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 163–183.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Gallery, New York. Shot with infrared Kodak Aerochrome film, Mosse’s Enclave became a locus for debates about contemporary aesthetic strategies, especially within photography, and the ethics of deploying the shock of the sublime to elicit both empathy and questioning, exposing the viewer/participant...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Jürgen Schulmann Robert . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Eisenstein Sergei . 1949 . “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form.” In Film Form: Essays in Film Theory , edited and translated by Leyda Jay . New York : Harcourt, Brace and World . Essay available...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 254–271.
Published: 01 July 2012
... that are insidiously imposed from without, internationally. Although largely unintentional, Slavick's essay and selection of art combined present the scholar and critic of theory and ideology with a fascinating study of the ongoing tension between the current predilection for commentary and analysis of conflict...
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