...Thomas Lahusen Thomas Lahusen Dr. Fu Manchu in Harbin: Cinema and Moviegoers of the 1930s To the memory of Diao Shaohua During his November visit to Harbin in Northeast China, formerly called Manchuria...

...Lisa Trahair 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Lisa Trahair The Ghost in the Machine: The Comedy of Technology in the Cinema of Buster Keaton In his essay ‘‘The Question Concerning Tech- nology Martin Heidegger argues...

...” that prevents a clear-eyed assessment of the recent past and limits the imagination of future possibilities. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Brazil cinema 1968 References Basbaum Leôncio . 1968 . História sincera da república, de 1889 a 1930 . São Paulo : Fulgor . Campos...

... experienced their first significant gains. This article identifies, describes, and analyzes the emergence of a cinema-labor cycle in São Paulo (1977–82) that constitutes a key instance of Brazil’s “deferred 1968”: a complex response to the distinct pressures of a repressive military regime, entrenched...

...John MacKay The Russian Revolution, so often monumentalized as a singular event—not least by the Bolsheviks themselves—was an inherently plural happening, involving the disparate actions and aspirations of peasants, workers, national minorities, and many others. Although early Soviet cinema...

...Thomas L. Ashton Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Realism and the Chronicle: C. P. Snow s Cinema Verite Thomas L. Ashton I In a sequence of eleven tales written during the course of thirty years, C. P. Snow chronicles the era that witnessed Yeats beast slouch home...

...André Bazin Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Andre Bazin Cinema and Theology ^The cinema has always been interested in God. The Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles were the first best-sellers on the screen, and the Passions of Christ were hits in France as well as in America.1...

...Caetlin Benson-Allott Using Henry Selick's Coraline (2009) as an exemplum, this essay investigates what sort of desire digital 3-D cinema produces and satisfies in its spectator and how it integrates itself into Western systems of representation. Selick's film manipulates our biocular vision...

... innovations of the past twenty years—such as anonymity, decorporalization, self-invention and reinvention, randomness—are largely disregarded by older “dominant” media forms and their subtending industries. Thus, few such mediations (including cinema, television, and print media) seek to account...

...Nikolas Kosmatopoulos This auto-ethnographic essay revisits the story of the Beirut City Center Dome, also known as the “Egg,” a 1960s brutalist-modernist cinema abandoned to snipers during Lebanon’s civil war, which briefly became a stage for a direct action politics in the early days of Lebanon’s...

...Tessa Dwyer Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Tessa Dwyer Straining to Hear (Deleuze) Early in 1995, I passed a flyer advertising an upcoming conference on A Century of Cinema: Australian and French Connections. 1 My inter­ est was caught by the number of papers on Gilles...

... night, scene follows scene, light gradually growing, until a glorious burst of sunlight reveals Enoch under a palm tree, upon which beams the blazing light of day. 4 Few articles in the history of cinema theory have had the lasting impact of Eisenstein s treatise on Dickens, Griffith, and the Film...

... be characterized by the fact that it has thoughts and is possibly alone in having them, has an ineradicable and fundamental relation to the unthought? Michel Foucault, The Order of Things In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, Gilles Deleuze recapitulates a number of important ideas...

... of art and society. An object distinct from lit­ erary questions of aesthetic value came into being. And for a while it appeared that this object might become the raw material of a science. From Northrop Frye s Anatomy of Criticism to the Christian Metz of Language and Cinema, the stage was set...

..., deprivation of all mystical forces.9 The great modernist constellation of city-cinema-industry ap­ peared simultaneously in Berlin and Moscow in the aftermath of the First World War.10 It was invoked by Cendrars when Delaunay was at work on his painting of the Eiffel Tower: 1 talked to him about New 426...

... hieroglyphics, to borrow the title of John Irwin s book? Beyond the literary tradition (to which I will return), Griffith participated in the widespread celebration of film as a new universal language which accompanied the formation of cinema as an institution? Used by journalists, intellectuals, social...

... and contestation with counter-memories and counter-narratives of the past. Cinema, History, Nation. The relationship between nation and history is mediated here by a third term: cinema. I look at film as a material artifact, a form of culture-writing, and an event that generates a pub­ lic space for display...

... York City. norman k. denzin is professor of sociology, cinema studies, and criticism and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois and also Research Pro- fessor of Communications within that university’s Institute of Commu- nications Research. Denzin’s books The Alcoholic Self...

... Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Notes on Contributors Rick Altman, Professor of French and Communication Studies at the University of Iowa, is the editor of Genre: The Musical and Cinema/ Sound. His 1987 book, The American Film Musical, has recently ap­ peared in a paperback...

... in traffic quickly pays off. In the 1975 article that inaugurated feminist psychoanalytic film theory, Laura Mulvey s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, the films used to illustrate women s role in spectacle and narrative share another feature that Mulvey doesn t mention: they all depict and more...