cinej: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called cinej.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Film; Http://cinej.pitt.edu; Films; Women; Cinej; Life; Movie; World; Movies; Turkish; Reality; Narrative; Media; Culture; Space; Documentary; India; Audience; Press; Family; Past; Human; Female; Camera; Power; Sex; Theory; Deleuze; Self; Gender; Television; Trier; Images; Image; Light; House; Country; Greek; Adaptation; School; Book; Aesthetics; Leigh; Tomas; Tarkovsky; Camus; Del; Century; Jackson; Humors; Aniston; Lie

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Strangers No More: the Initial Hitchcock murder by Dima, Vlad (2011) - | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2011.1 | http://cinej.pitt.edu https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?CUSTOMERNO=70674140&t=de2036625062.1317033377.e11e60a6&to=dimav%40union.edu http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx CINEJ Cinema Journal: Strangers no More … Special Issue 1 (2011) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2011.1 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 171 Strangers no More: The Initial Hitchcock Murder If we compare murder scenes from distinct periods in Alfred Hitchcock’s oeuvre, we find a sharp gradation in the intensity of visual depiction from the first talkie, Blackmail (1929), to Strangers on a Train (1951), and to his penultimate film, Frenzy (1972), which essentially marks the end of the director’s career. A structural space for the audience is thus born, as Hitchcock targets a particular reaction through “the equation victim=audience” (Clover 52). Keywords: alice; audience; crewe; film; hitchcock; murder; sadism; scene
• Subtitling in the Nigerian Film Industry, Informative or Misleading? by Ibbi, Andrew Ali (2015) - The paper will look at the Hermaneutic Theory of Mass Communication to buttress the relevance of deriving meaning out of movie subtitles. Hence, subtitles came in handy, considering the fact that most viewers cannot understand the language with which the movies were produced. Keywords: country; film; industry; journal; language; movies; subtitles; subtitling
• Review of Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary U.S. Film: Framing Fatherhood by Lennon, Elaine (2014) - As Hamad declares, “Given the extent to which irony figures as a discursively dominant feature of postfeminist culture, and now permeates articulations of cinematic fatherhood, a consideration of the relationship between these phenomena seems warranted” (p. 146). The reader may safely conclude from the text that white masculinity is no longer in crisis in this fantasy cinematic world of normalized postfeminist fatherhood, the success of Frozen (Buck, Lee, 2013) notwithstanding. Keywords: cinema; contemporary; fatherhood; film; volume
• Sedimentations: Some Thoughts on Schoenberg’s Musical Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene by Ryan, David (2011) - 1 This emphasis on sensation, apparent in the Five Orchestral Pieces and Ewartung in particular, had a delayed reaction in relation to film music. Considering the score as film music it is hard not to agree with Berg‟s regret that Schoenberg had not supervised or created a film, as in 1913, to go with this score. Keywords: accompaniment; cinej.2011.11; cinema; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; huillet; issue; journal; music; new; online; piece; schoenberg‟s; sound; straub; work
• Review of Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy by Çağlayan, Emre (2014) - In the remaining parts of the essay, Wall examines Malick’s films through Schillerian concepts of naivety and sentimentalisch (more neatly translated as “subjective, reflective,” according to the author), which, coupled with Malick’s insistent portrayal of natural environment, gives rise to a mode of thinking that interrogates the CINEJ Cinema Journal: Review of Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy Volume 3.2 (2014) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2014.112 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 265 volume succeeds as an example of multitudinous approach to the philosophy of film and broadly speaks to readers interested in the relationship between cinema and philosophy as well as the films of Terrence Malick. Keywords: film; malick; philosophy; terrence
• Mulholland Drive: An Intertextual Reading by Barzegar, Ebrahim (2015) - These discourses are highlighted in the innumerable references to other films such as Sunset Boulevard, The Wizard of Oz and Persona. Lynch viewers have to consider the network of textual relations besides their significance in order to grasp the depth of the meaning of the film; therefore, this section focuses on the network of intertexts from film noir genre particularly Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950), The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966), to Lynch’s earlier films. Keywords: bakhtin; cinej.2014.114; cinema; drive; film; journal; language; lynch; mulholland; online; volume
• Books Received by Akser, Murat (2014) - Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture. Keywords: academic; bloomsbury; bloomsbury academic; film; london; press; university
• Reading of the Architectural Identity via Cinema by Alkan Bala, Havva (2015) - Likewise, in the film Lake House, architect Alex is depicted as working at a white, lighted, large and flat table making sketches, hands in paint, his back in pains due to long times spent at the table, trying to reflect his ideas on paper (Figure 3). Keywords: Architect, Architecture, The Profession of Architecture, Cinema, Film. Keywords: 10.5195; architect; architecture; cinej cinema; cinej.2014.118; cinema; cinema journal; film; house; life; online; volume
• Across Cultural and National Borders: Diasporic Chinese Family in Pushing Hands by Han, Qijun (2011) - As such, the traits of Chinese family melodrama will be highlighted. Including Ang Lee, numerous Chinese and diasporic Chinese filmmakers have utilized the cinematic form of family melodrama to reflect the complexity of family domain, where different types of conflicts among gender, cultures, generations, class, and nations, are more often than not displayed. Keywords: american; chinese; chu; cinema; culture; family; family melodrama; film; hands; lee; melodrama
• New Media and Film Festivals in the Middle East by Akser, Murat (2015) - On the one hand it tries to observe some of the changes after the digital revolution, changes that had an impact on film festivals. On one hand it tries to observe some of the changes after the digital revolution, changes that had an impact on film festivals. Keywords: festivals; film; middle; new; online; submission; withoutabox
• Cowboys and kings: The coming of age film in 1990s Irish cinema by Menendez-Otero, Carlos (2016) - Constrained by public backers, 1990s mainstream Irish films seldom address contentious issues directly. Microsoft Word - 123_Otero.docx Cowboys and kings: The coming of age film in 1990s Irish cinema Carlos Menendez-Otero, menendezocarlos@uniovi.es Keywords: 1990s; 1990s irish; age; age film; cinej cinema; cinej.2015.123; cinema; cinema journal; cinema volume; coming; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; ireland; irish; irish cinema; kings; online; volume
• The Problem of Homosexuality: Desire-in-Uneasiness, Friendship, Family, Freedom by Bergen-Aurand, Brian (2016) - In addition to these concerns, though, Turkish critics have also seen Zenne Dancer, as an important intersection between Turkish film and Turkish society in terms of the question of the existence of a gay Turkish cinema. Summarizing her analysis of Turkish films addressing gender and sexuality in relation to a morality that seems in transition in Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, Dönmez-Colin writes: Despite the bleak picture these films paint, there has been significant openness in recent years regarding sexuality and alternative sexual choices. Keywords: cinej.2015.124 |; cinema; dancer; desire; family; film; friendship; homosexuality; men; problem; zenne; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Monstrosity and War Memories in Latin American Post-conflict Cinema by D'Argenio, Maria Chiara (2016) - 41 Margarita Saona, “Cuando la Guerra sigue por dentro: posmemoria y masculinidad entre Yuyanapaq y Días de Santiago,” Inti 67/68 (2008): 168. 43 Saona, “Posmemoria y masculinidad entre Yuyanapaq y Días de Santiago,” 166-7. 44 Nick Haslam, et al., “Dehumanization: a New Perspective,” Social and Personality Psychology Compass 1/1 (2007): 420. 45 See Haslam, “Dehumanization: An Integrative Review,” Personality and Social Psychology Review 10, no.3 (2006): 252-264. Keywords: american; cinej.2015.126; cinema; cinema journal; conflict; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; latin; memory; monstrosity; online; order; post; santiago; volume; war
• Between genres and styles in the films of Robert Bresson by Alvim, Luíza Beatriz (2016) - Abstract The films of French director Robert Bresson are considered sober and transcendental. The films of French director Robert Bresson are considered sober, with a “transcendental style”1, due to the economical use of music (only diegetic in his late films) and the employment of non-professional actors (the so called “models”), who recite the lines of the dialogues as if they were just reading them. Keywords: benjamim; bresson; cinej; cinema; deville; film; genres; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; michel; music; online; robert; robert bresson; volume; woman
• Howard Hughes and the Cold War Aviation Film Jet Pilot (1957) by Voeltz, Richard Andrew (2016) - The paper will analyze how the peculiar Cold War romance Jet Pilot (1957), funded by Howard Hughes, produced and written by Jules Furthman, directed by Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel) and starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh, reflects these themes as well as other elements in the Cold War popular culture of 1950s, making it the paradigmatic Cold War film. The aerial sequences in Jet Pilot lack the masculine, aggressive jet “jock” scenes found in the late Cold War, Reagan era film Top Gun (1986), although some of the competiveness remains. Keywords: american; anna; aviation; cinej.2016.133; cinema; cold; cold war; film; howard; hughes; jet; jet pilot; journal; leigh; new; online; pilot; shannon; soviet; volume; war; wayne
• Tragicomedy, Melodrama, and Genre in Early Sound Films: The Case of Two “Sad Clown” Musicals by Garber, Michael G. (2016) - Despite the surge of serious analysis of both stage and film musicals during the last thirty years, very seldom have the theories of stage drama been applied to the movie musical. Because musical comedy numbers that glorify entertainment were utilized by members of the mass audience for their own dancing and amateur music-making, the songs carried the sense of mythic comic celebration into everyday life. Keywords: cinej.2016.135; cinema; clown; elmer; film; genre; harry; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; melodrama; musical; online; puttin; ritz; sound; tragicomedy; volume; world
• Bollywood of India: Geopolitical Texts of Belonging and Difference and Narratives of Mistrust and Suspicion by Shailo, Iqbal (2016) - 28 The majority of Indian films are not based on Indian culture as they “continue to lend and borrow motifs from other cultures, both proximate and exotic. 29 Various genres of Indian film can CINEJ Cinema Journal Bollywood of India: Geopolitical Texts of Belonging and Difference and Narratives of Mistrust and Suspicion Volume 5.2 (2016) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2016.138 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 123 have a significant impact on governments, political gurus, media moguls, academics, researchers and above all the mass population of the region. Keywords: bollywood; cinej.2016.138; cinema; difference; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; identity; india; journal; mistrust; muslim; narratives; online; salim; suspicion; volume
• A hybrid documentary genre: Animated documentary and the analysis of Waltz with Bashir (2008) Movie by Ekinci, Barış Tolga (2017) - When it comes to animated documentary films, such spectatorial responses are not trivial. Animated documentary genre is so, two times more: It is unreal, based on imagination and it offers all the methods of the fiction, but it uses the allegation of reality of documentary. Keywords: animation; cinema; documentaries; documentary; film; genre; journal; movie; online; reality; volume; waltz
• The politics of spectatorship in the Tree of Wooden Clogs by Pettigrew, Ian Dwayne (2017) - Olmi’s commitment to creating films that invite responsible viewership guides his style, whether in the fashion of The Fiancés, which fuses the past, present, and possible futures together of a discontented couple through radical editing, or as in the painterly long takes and observational point-of-view shots of Tree of Wooden Clogs. French Catholic priest and film critic Amédée Ayfre makes an insightful link between a style similar to Olmi’s approach in this sequence and Bazin’s theories on ‘reality’ in film. Keywords: batistì; cinej.2017.145 |; cinema; cinema journal; clogs; clogs volume; family; film; journal; olmi; online; politics; tree; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• To Find Is To Choose, To Choose Is To Create: Culture(s) in Cinematic and Architectural Space(s) by Besgen, Asu (2012) - The Rational Functionalism that was suggested and applied by famous architects such as Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies Van der Rohe, gave birth to plenary space architecture in the 1950s. When we look at the backgrounds of prominent directors, producers, art directors or set designers, we see that they have somehow studied architecture at some point in their lives. Keywords: architecture; art; characteristics; cinej.2012.15; cinema; cinema journal; culture; director; film; france; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; life; online; space; style; volume
• Labyrinths and Illusions in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire by Barzegar, Ebrahim (2016) - Mise en abyme structure of Memento (2000), Synecdoche, New York (2008) and INLAND EMPIRE (2006) are the manifestation of foregrounding technique in postmodern films. Among other Lynch’s films Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and INLAND EMPIRE also include hypodiegetic worlds which could be taken as reflection. Keywords: abyme; cinema; david; empire; film; inland; level; lynch; mulholland; narrative; world
• Kingdom of Heaven and its ideological message by Liu, Yiou (2017) - As Shaheen (2003) stated, the mythology of Hollywood films that dominates mainstream culture, lead audiences to believe the Arabs are evil and that is the stereotype set by these films. However, Kingdom of Heaven has not vilified and demonized the Christian main enemy Saladin as what traditional Hollywood films had typically done before, despite it being filmed after the fateful period. Keywords: film; heaven; hollywood; kingdom; movie; saladin; war
• “Ever heard of EVEL Knievel?”: James Bond meets the Rural sheriff by Schwetman, John D. (2017) - | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.160 | http://cinej.pitt.edu ”Ever heard of EVEL Knievel?”: James Bond Meets the Rural Sheriff John D. Schwetman When Guy Hamilton’s Live and Let Die hit theaters in June 1973, it broke away from the conventions of preceding James Bond films, abandoning the more serious tone of Fleming’s novels in favor of more overt parody, goofy car chases, and even motifs from the Blaxploitation tradition that shaped early-70s cinema. “Ever heard of EVEL Knievel?”: James Bond meets the Rural sheriff John D. Schwetman, jschwetm@d.umn.edu Abstract James Bond emerged as an international film hero because he represented an aspirational cosmopolitan ideal offering viewers an opportunity to escape to an exciting international arena of adventure during the Cold War. Keywords: agent; american; bond; cinej.2017.160 |; cinema; film; fleming; james; james bond; journal; online; pepper; scaramanga; secret; sheriff; sheriff pepper; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• For Those Who Seek Mastery and Personality, by Halit Refiğ by Akser, Murat (2017) - All these lead “Hudutların Kanunu”, which Akad gives as an example of “folk cinema”, to be a good willingly but mistaken troop film in terms of ideology even though it is a “folk” cinema in terms of economic basis just like the 95% of Turkish films. It is a respond to those who writes ridiculous things such as “babbling instead of image language” without watching Turkish films. Keywords: akad; akser; cinema; erksan; film; halit; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; murat; online; refiğ; volume
• Bollywood in the Hollywood Era: Narratives of Ultra-nationalism, Terrorism and Violence by Shailo, Iqbal (2018) - Accordingly, like Hollywood movies, Indian movies also develop and maintain linkages with other global media corporations as “ Bollywood movies and film music are gradually moving out of the “South Asian” diasporic market into American or British public culture more broadly” (Punathambekar and Kavoori, 2008:8). CINEJ Cinema Journal: Iqbal Shailo Volume 6.2 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.170 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 78 Indian Movies: Geopolitics, Terrorism, Masculinity and Violence Indian movies have captured the themes of terrorism and violence to create an image of danger and fear in the minds of millions of people. Keywords: american; bollywood; cinej.2017.170; cinema; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; india; journal; movies; narratives; online; terrorism; violence; volume
• Holocaust Cinema as Depicted by Film Advisory Boards in Five English Speaking Countries by Lazar, Alon; Litvak Hirsch, Tal (2018) - The current work aims to add to these discussions by addressing a lacuna in research, namely, identifying the age-categories assigned to Holocaust movies produced between the years 1993 and 2015 and the justifications for these classifications, by movie advisory boards in five English speaking countries. Age-classifications and their justifications of Holocaust movies produced between 1993 and 2015, by film advisory boards in five English speaking countries, were investigated. Keywords: advisory; age; boards; category; cinema; countries; film; holocaust; holocaust movies; movies
• Nollywood in Cameroon: Transnationalisation and Reception of a Dynamic Cinematic Culture by Endong, Floribert Patrick C. (2018) - Nollywood films have in television broadcast in the country, (ii) the extent to which Nollywood films affect local cinema production in Cameroon and (iii) Cameroonian audiences’ attitudes towards Nollywood films and actors. Audiences in Europe, America, Caribbean countries and (Black) Africa have increasingly become fans and consumers of Nollywood films. Keywords: african; audiences; cameroon; cameroonian; cinema; film; industry; journal; nollywood; online; volume
• Women Trauma and Stereotype Tradition in Tunde Kelani’s Film, Thunderbolt by Elegbe, Olugbenga (2018) - Ngozi tells Dimeji at the end of the film, when he expresses fear that she may find it hard to trust Yoruba men again, that ‘there are only two tribes/race, the good and the bad people’. In the film while Yinka took all physical action to revenge on his suspicion of Ngozi infidelity, Ngozi is only emotionally disturbed about Yinka’s accusation in which she tries to defend herself. Keywords: film; jealousy; kelani; magun; ngozi; online; thunderbolt; tunde; wife; women; yinka; yoruba
• The Homosexual Male Gaze: Normalizing Homosexuality through the Use of Heteronormative Narrative Techniques in Film by Rohrs, Lauren (2019) - In Beauty and the Beast, the love interest CINEJ Cinema Journal: Normalizing Homosexuality through the Use of Heteronormative Narrative Techniques in Film Volume 7.2 (2019) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2019.177 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 7 of the gay character becomes the object of the male gaze and undergoes a similar transformation; his desirability is largely communicated to the audience through the use of the male gaze, while the sexual orientation of “the looker” is expressed in a similar fashion to the traditional presentation of attraction from heterosexual male characters – by observing another man as an “erotic object”, the sexual orientation of this character is communicated without the need to announce to the audience that the character is homosexual or to exaggerate the character’s behavior to match a heterosexual audience’s stereotype of what it means to “act gay”. Beauty and the Beast and Homosexuality The example of homosexual male gaze utilized in this paper is that of the 2017 live action film adaptation of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Keywords: character; film; gaze; homosexual; narrative; use
• Ceylan's Winter Sleep: From Ambiguity to Nothingness by Daldal, Aslı (2018) - For these reasons it may not be appropriate to call them “postmodern” but I believe that, for the reasons I will try to elaborate below, from the Trilogy of Province to Winter Sleep Nuri Bilge Ceylan has increasingly moved towards a position that Pauline Marie Rosenau would call “Skeptical Postmodernism” (Roseanu, 1992, p.139). Nuri Bilge Ceylan ile Kişisel Yolculuk. Keywords: ambiguity; aydın; ceylan; cinej.2017.180; cinema; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; online; sleep; volume; winter; winter sleep
• Presentation of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his Cinema in the Turkish Media by Parlak, Zafer; Işık, Mehmet (2018) - Presentation of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his Cinema in the Turkish Media Zafer Parlak & Mehmet Işık zparlak@yahoo.com, mehmet.isik@artuklu.edu.tr İstinye University & Mardin Artuklu University Abstract Nuri Bilge Ceylan is the most famous Turkish film director with numerous international prizes. Keywords: Turkish Cinema, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ceylan’s movies, plain style, “Winter Sleep”, “Distant”, “Three Monkeys”, “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”, “Cocoon”, “Clouds of May”, “The Town”. Keywords: audience; ceylan; cinej.2018.185; cinema; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; https://eksisozluk.com/entry/42999061; https://eksisozluk.com/entry/42999061 https://eksisozluk.com/nuri-bilge-ceylanin-altin-palmiye-odulu-almasi--4400052?p=1; https://eksisozluk.com/nuri-bilge-ceylanin-altin-palmiye-odulu-almasi--4400052?p=1; https://eksisozluk.com/nuri-bilge-ceylanin-altin-palmiye-odulu-almasi--4400052?p=1 https://eksisozluk.com/nuri-bilge-ceylanin-altin-palmiye-odulu-almasi--4400052?p=1; hürriyet; journal; media; news; online; presentation; prize; turkish; volume
• Women in the Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan by Masdar Kara, Funda; Eşitti, Şakir (2018) - Women in the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan In the cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan women generally appears as the complementary element in the dimension of male-female relationship. The film presents the urban-rural CINEJ Cinema Journal: Funda Masdar Kara & Şakir Eşitti Volume 6.2 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.186 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 210 dichotomy over two male character, women characters appear when needed and they do so, as in the form and part as they are placed in the men's world. Keywords: bilge; bilge ceylan; ceylan; cinema; film; life; nuri; nuri bilge; online; volume; women; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Apocalypse at Painting to Cinema: The end of Western Civilization and Hegemony by Köksal, Selma (2018) - This sort of political claustrophobia is internalized in Trier films. By analyzing examples from the history of art and directors from film arts (such as Tarkovsky, Iñárritu, Lars von Trier, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan) who use metaphorical sceneries in dystopian /utopian contents, this article will focus on decoding the signification of the concept of apocalypse throughout the history of humanity Keywords: Apocalypse, Hegemony, Existence, Painting, Contemporary film arts, Tarkovsky. Keywords: apocalypse; cinema; civilization; film; journal; justine; online; tarkovsky; trier; volume
• From Box Office to Memory: Telling Stories is not an Innocent Act by Kanbur, Ayla (2018) - It also provides the basis for “distinguishing it from different cultural tools” as in Assmann’s distinction between” narrative and non-narrative forms (landscapes, food etc.) of cultural memory” (Wertsch and Roediger 2008, 323). (2002): Cultural memory and the cultural legacy of individualism and community in two cultural films about labor unions, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 19,3, 329-351 CINEJ Cinema Journal: Keywords: cinema; collective; experience; film; individual; journal; memory; narrative; online; volume
• Interpersonal Relations as a Tool to Film Directing by Bogoni, Caio Augusto Camargo; Michel, Renate B. (2018) - With that being said, the idea behind an ideal model CINEJ Cinema Journal: Caio Augusto Camargo Bogoni & Renate B. Michel Volume 7.1 (2018) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2018.189 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 94 of director is not to instigate a quest for an unreachable objective, but to show elementary qualities and fields of knowledge considered important to the profession. Directors can help their actors by understanding and demonstrating that the atmosphere on the set has a determining effect on group performance. Keywords: actor; cinej; cinema; directing; director; film; journal; online; salvi; volume; work
• What’s in the Backdrop: Representation of Landscape in Bollywood Cinema by Mishra, Naveen (2018) - Abstract Representation of landscape images is a ubiquitous feature of Bollywood films that provides cinematicscape to the storyline and aims to appeal to the sentiments and emotions of the audience by engaging with the narrative. Landscape images engage in the process of making and unmaking of meanings because of their symbolic value that constitute a sense of place and underpin human relations with immediate and distant spaces. Keywords: bollywood; bollywood cinema; cinej.2018.191; cinema; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; images; indian; journal; landscape; online; representation; space; volume
• “Billions in Debt and Still Surviving”: Curing the Female Shopper in Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sapui, Meghna (2020) - As the background score is an insight to Rebecca’s character, as it clearly is in the film’s use of popular songs (as Figure 2: Rebecca Bloomwood looks at store windows while men look at her. She thinks it is a part of her identity, thus the first time the adult Rebecca is shown, the voiceover introduces her to the audience as: Rebecca Bloomwood. Keywords: cinej.2020.192; cinema; confessions; doi; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; ibid; journal; online; rebecca; shopaholic; shopper; shopping; volume
• Editorial by Bayrak, Bengisu (2018) - The article titled Women, Trauma and Stereotype Tradition in Tunde Kelani’s Film, Thunderbolt tracks Nigerian film Thunderbolt in the context of representation of women who are exposed to severe mistreatment resulting in trauma in Yoruba Culture. CINEJ Cinema Journal: Bengisu Bayrak Volume 6.2 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.198 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 3 Andrew Ali Ibbi criticizes Nigerian film industry from the perspective of gender and feminist media studies in his article Stereotype Representation of Women in Nigerian Films. Keywords: cinema; film; journal; volume; women
• Violence in the Postcolonial Ghetto: Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome (1994) by Herbert, Emilie (2018) - Varaizdo (2017) Ngozi Onwurah: the forgotten pioneer of Black British film, Gal-Dem, 2017. In fact, the filmmaker has shown a particular interest in the various expressions of violence throughout her filmography : mentions of psychological and emotional violence can be found in films such as Coffee Coloured Children (1988, 15 minutes, colour), And Still I Rise (1992, 30 minutes, colour), The Flight of the Swan (1994, 12 minutes, colour), or Shoot the messenger (2006, 90 minutes, colour); when films like White Men Are Cracking Up (1994, 25 minutes, colour) and Welcome II Keywords: black; cinema; film; ghetto; onwurah; terrordome; violence; welcome
• Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era by Pfahlert, Jeanine (2018) - Authors attest that Soviet melodrama adhered to American melodramatic qualities. The authors name four major kinds of late Soviet film genres. Keywords: authors; era; film; soviet
• Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film by Adamson, Patrick (2018) - While the prominence of women in early Hollywood is now near-universally acknowledged, the enormous significance of pioneering comic figures such as Mabel Normand continues to be markedly absent from popular narratives of the era, seemingly having fallen victim to the self-aggrandizing – and often misogynistic – biographical palimpsest practiced by the likes of Chaplin. The first chapter of this study takes its title from a question posed by Harper’s Bazaar in 1901: “Have women a sense of humor?” Keywords: comedy; comic; film; venus; women
• Going Beyond Boundaries: There is a Way and the Use of English Medium in Hausa Film Industry by Ibrahim, Muhammad Muhsin; Yusuf, Aliyu Yakubu (2018) - In her assessment, McCain (2013:30) points out that “In most scholarly discussions of Nollywood, Hausa films are footnoted as an “other” to Nollywood…”, notwithstanding its being older than the latter. For example, sentence 11 was used by Umma Aimana in reference to how her Ex-husband made her abort her six pregnancies. Keywords: doi; english; film; hausa; industry; isham; online; sentence; use; verb; way
• The War that Won't Die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema by Lonsdale, Sarah (2018) - David Archibald’s survey of films made about the Spanish Civil War over the past 80 years asks two key questions: how useful is film as a tool for historians when excavating the past, and how do film directors address the challenge of ‘representing the unrepresentable’: the bloody, complex, multi-dimensional aspects of a war the legacy of which is still hotly contested to this day (p. 83). Increasing numbers of films appearing since the relaxation of censorship in the last years of Franco’s rule and the recent unravelling of the ‘pact of forgetting’ (pacto del olvido) imposed during the years of transition from dictatorship to democracy after Franco’s death in 1975 suggest film makers are still responding to the unresolved complexities of the bitter three-year conflict (p. 169). Keywords: film; war
• Istanbul Crossroads Establishing Mutual Understanding and Inter-Cultural Dialog through Images by Akman, Vedat (2011) - JCI Istanbul Crossroads is a short film contest and festival, the aim of which is to draw attention on migration and cultural dialog in the world, thus to create global awareness. “JCIST Crossroads” is organized by JCI Istanbul, a non-profit organization affiliated to JCI, recognized as a partner organization for Global and Continental Initiatives by the UN and various other institutions including the Council of Europe and EuroChambers. Keywords: crossroads; film; istanbul; jci
• Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscape of Film and Media by Korolkova, Maria (2018) - At the same time, demonstrating the complexity and hybridity of global cinematic city as a concept of enquiry is in itself a valuable task, which is performed here with comprehension and great enthusiasm. The answer lays in economic and cultural networks, including film festivals, behind-the-scene agencies, and most importantly, in the trope of ‘cinematic city’ as discussed in the urbanist discourse by Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and Robert Venturi. Keywords: film; global; new
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens [the Western Pleasure Principle] by Rose, Alexander S (2019) - The Jedi are an order of Light Side Force users. CINEJ Cinema Journal: Apocalypse at Painting to Cinema: The end of Western Civilization and Hegemony Volume 7.2 (2019) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2019.216 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 51 Keywords: cinej; cinej cinema; cinema; cinema journal; dark; doi; film; force; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; online; order; star; volume
• The ‘Return to Home’: The Musical Construction of a Common Trope in New Turkish Cinema by Hartley, Paul (2011) - My purpose in using this example is to give a relatively simple caseof the trope that is common in a sufficient number of Turkish films and television programs to constitute a true trope with a host of significant meanings and interpretations. Many Turkish films over the last fifteen years, including others by Zaim have dealt with the tensions inherent in Turkey‘s discourse over identity and Turkey‘s place in the world. Keywords: cinema; city; cue; film; home; moment; music; new; nostalgia; past; score; space; trope; turkish; ‗return
• Let’s Make it American: American Remakes of the British Films by Kahraman Dönmez, Elif (2018) - Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze American remake versions of the original British films taking narrative as a basis. For the study, two sets of film remakes have been chosen for analysis: Alfie (1966, dir. Keywords: alfie; american; cinema; film; narrative; original; remake; remake version; story; version
• Editorial by Bayrak, Bengisu (2018) - “Interpersonal Relations as a Tool to Film Directing” shows the complexity of being a film director and opens the debate which is rarely issued in film studies. And finally, Elif Kahraman Dönmez analyzes the American remake versions of British films and claims that the American remakes put America forward as a cultural product for sale, and makes the British narrative Americanized. Keywords: cinej; cinema; film; journal; volume
• Crushing Life in the Anthropocene? Destroying Simulated "Nature" in The Cabin in the Woods by Fuchs, Michael (2020) - Cabin links this meta-discourse about representation and simulation with the notion that nature is “quite profoundly a human creation” (Cronon, 1996, p. 7). CINEJ Cinema Journal: Michael Fuchs Volume 8.2 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.225 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 70 Cabin repeatedly touches on this topic and weaves it into its meta-cinematic layer. Keywords: cabin; cinej.2020.225; cinema; film; horror; http://cinej.pitt.edu; human; journal; life; nature; online; university; volume; woods; world
• New Turkish Cinema – Some Remarks On The Homesickness Of The Turkish Soul by Kaim, Agnieszka Ayşen (2011) - CINEJ New Turkish Cinema – Some Remarks on the Homesickness of the Turkish Soul Agnieszka Ayşen KAIM, University of Lodz, apkaim@post.pl | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2011.23 | http://cinej.pitt.edu mailto:apkaim@post.pl http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx CINEJ Cinema Journal: New Turkish Cinema – Some Remarks On The Homesickness Special Issue: 1 (2011) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2011.23 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 100 New Turkish Cinema – Some Remarks on the Homesickness of the Turkish Soul For decades „It„s like a Turkish film” has been an expression with negative associations, being synonymous with kitch and banal. Keywords: cinema; city; film; identity; istanbul; life; new; place; turkish; urban; world
• Samsara documentary: narrative and discourse analysis and a possible interpretation by Dias, Ricardo Henrique Almeida (2019) - Microsoft Word - 234-1436-2-LE.docx Samsara documentary: narrative and discourse analysis and a possible interpretation Ricardo Henrique Almeida Dias Unifacvest University Center ricardohadias@gmail.com This analysis was based using aspects of discourse analysis and the concepts about time and narrative elaborated by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Keywords: analysis; cinej.2019.234 |; discourse; film; human; narrative; online; samsara; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Man In A Hat: Martin Balsam And The Refining Of Male Character Acting In American Films, 1957-1976 by McGuire, John Thomas (2020) - Microsoft Word - 2.CINEJ8.1.235.docx Man In A Hat: Martin Balsam and the Refining of Male Character Acting in American Films, 1957-1976 John Thomas McGuire, Siena College jmcguire@siena.edu Keywords: Character acting, male, in film, United States; Martin Balsam; Academy Award for Best Performance by a Supporting Actor; Claude Rains; Alfred Hitchcock; 20th Century film acting. Keywords: acting; actor; american; balsam; character; cinej.2020.235; cinema; film; hat; http://cinej.pitt.edu; john; journal; male; man; martin; martin balsam; murray; online; volume
• Rethinking Pornography within the Context of the New French Extremity: The Case of Baise-Moi by Erensoy, Sirin Fulya (2020) - 2 There are other films from other countries which are part of this trend such as 9 Songs (2004), Lie With Me (2005), Love (2015) and most recently DAU Natasha (2020). The presence of so many individuals active in the porn industry, have led to some critics’ convictions of the film’s affiliation with porn, and that the use of porn aesthetics and shots typically seen in porn films, was not a method for social commentary, but was very much porn CINEJ Cinema Journal: Rethinking Pornography within the Context of the New French Extremity: The Case of Baise-Moi Volume 8.1 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.236 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 71 indeed. Keywords: baise; cinej.2020.236; cinema; film; french; journal; manu; moi; nadine; new; online; pornography; volume
• Cinema, Human Rights And Development: The Cinema As A Pedagogical Practice by Grubba, Leilane Serratine (2020) - This is why cinema studies seek to understand how people read movies: the extraction of the fundamental elements of narrative and visual style (Turner 1997: 155). From the studies of film language, thinkers have generally concluded that cinema can create an emotional bond with the viewer – the film and the message to be communicated with mise-en- scène. Keywords: cinej cinema; cinej.2020.238 |; cinema; cinema journal; development; film; language; law; online; participation; projection; reality; rights; viewer; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• The Urbanization of Labor and Its Struggle for Unionism in Turkish Cinema by Yüksel, Hasan (2020) - This study follows a different format and analyzes the dynamics of the formation of Turkish labor unionism by means of a particular film, The Blood Money (Diyet, 1975) by Ömer Lütfi Akad. What’s more, the foundation of the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions in 1952 (TURK-IS) and the inauguration of Turkish CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Urbanization of Labor and Its Struggle for Unionism in Turkish Cinema Volume 8.1 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.239 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 167 Confederation of Employer Associations in 1962 (TISK) presented Turkish labor markets a ‘confederative’ structuring. Keywords: cinej.2020.239; cinema; cinema journal; codes; economic; film; hasan; http://cinej.pitt.edu; industrialization; journal; labor; law; online; ottoman; strike; sub; trade; turkey; unionism; unions; urbanization; volume; workers
• UFA Orientalism. The “Orient” in Early German Film: Lubitsch and May by Scherer, Frank F. (2011) - Their resistance can perhaps be understood in the context of the theoretical strains of Said‟s Orientalism. Leaving aside the historical relevance of these questions, they indicate a typical quality of Said‟s Orientalism which resides in its hybrid positioning. Keywords: cinema; film; freud; german; narcissism; new; orientalism; said‟s; theory; university
• Cinema And Society In The Light Of Emile Zola’s Naturalism by Karbalaeetaher, Hossein Shahin (2020) - Another line of thought on the role of cinema in expressing and/or stimulating social matters demonstrates the crucial impact of Emile Zola and his naturalism on the relationship between cinema and presenting social issues. To further understand the crucial role of Emile Zola and his naturalism in expressing social issues by means of cinema, one should take the time machine and travel back to CINEJ Cinema Journal: Hossein Shahin Karbalaeetaher Volume 8.1 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.244 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 148 just one year after the end of the Second French Empire (1852 – 1870) and the totalitarian regime of Napoleon III; in the last decades of the nineteenth century in which France approaches the so- called ‘Beautiful Era’ (Belle Époque). Keywords: antoine; cinema; emile; film; naturalism; online; society; zola
• Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film by Moss, Joshua Louis (2019) - This gendered rhetoric of the “vulgar” allowed silent comediennes to neutralize embedded biases against women comediennes and spectatorial resistance to female comedic agency. This is especially problematic given the wide variety and popularity of films starring women comediennes that remain marginalized in academic discourse. Keywords: comediennes; comedy; film; women
• Editorial by Akser, Murat (2019) - Keywords: male gaze, heteronormativity, Hollywood, Bollywood, Soviet movies, Ultra-nationalism, Masculinity, Violence, Identity, marketing; branding; psychoanalysis; Star Wars, Item songs, psychoanalytic feminism, feminine subjectivities, Werner Herzog, German cinema, Ecstatic Truth, documentary film, discourse analysis, narratology. These movies reflect how government machineries evaluate the political situation and strategic policies of the country in managing geopolitical environments through the construction of security narratives, political rhetoric and geopolitical discourses. Keywords: analysis; cinema; film; narrative; volume
• Reinvigorating Film Studies: An Immodest Proposal by Akser, Murat (2011) - The semiotic turn, feminist movement, apparatus theory and later race and identity politics became staple topics for film studies journals. Has University, makser@khas.edu.tr Abstract CINEJ Cinema Journal is a newcomer to the field of film studies. Keywords: film; journal; press; studies; university
• Review of Cinema/Politics/Philosophy by Ballas, Anthony James (2020) - As successful as the book’s main chapters are, and although the book does cover the Althusserian-Lacanian vein, its counterpart in Bordwell and Carrol’s Post-Theory, as well as (albeit briefly) the continuation of the psychoanalytic tradition of film theory and Žižek’s rejoinder to Post Theory in his book The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski Between Theory and CINEJ Cinema Journal: Anthony James Ballas Volume 8.1 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.263 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 296 Post-Theory, there are a few omissions worth mention, in particular Baumbach’s handling of the political features of psychoanalytic film theory today: no mention of Todd McGowan, scant mention of Žižek’s Hegelian-Marxist inspired readings of film, and, perhaps most scandalous of all, no mention of Joan Copjec and her well-known though scarcely cited intervention against Screen theory in her classic “The Orthopsychic Subject” — a point which is still met with contention by figures such as McGowan and Flisfeder (see: McGowan, T. (2007). Thus already in the title Baumbach shows us his hand: this book is neither a work of film criticism nor a method of applying philosophy to individual films, it is a work of reimagining the political and philosophical foundations of film theory. Keywords: baumbach; cinema; film; theory
• Transformation of Love in the Digital Age: The film Her and Reaching God through the love in the Perspective of Sufism by Serttaş, Aybike (2020) - Tufan, Ali E., Yaluğ, İ. (2010) “Aşk” Fenomeni ve Sevgi İlişkilerinin Nörobiyolojisi (The phenomenon of love and the neurobiology of love relationships). In this article, two forms of love; digital love and the love for God are the chosen themes to analyze the film Her with the method of semiotic analysis. Keywords: age; cinej.2020.264 |; cinema; digital; film; god; journal; love; online; relationships; samantha; theodore; transformation; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Music and sound in documentary film communication: an exploration of Une Affaire de Nègres and Chef! by Animbom Ngong, Paul (2020) - This is an inclusive consideration of film music which according to Lipscomb and Tolchinsky (2005), is one component of a sonic fabric that includes the musical score, ambient sound, dialogue, sound effects and silence. Hollywood film music in the early sound era, 1926-1934. Keywords: chef; cinej.2020.265 |; cinema; communication; documentary; documentary film; doi; film; journal; music; online; signs; sound; volume
• Politics of Succession in Nollywood Films, Saworoide and Ikoka by Omoera, Osakue S.; Anyanwu, Chukwuma (2020) - It is clear from the above that Nigerian filmmakers become some sort of mind readers when packaging their stories especially if there is any iota of political trappings in such films. Stereotype representation of women in nigerian films. Keywords: cinej; cinej.2020.266; cinema; cinema journal; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; ikoka; journal; nigeria; nollywood; omoera; online; politics; saworoide; volume
• The Study of Rubaiyat attributed to Khayyam in Movies by Minakar, Milad; Chitsazian, Amir Hossein (2020) - “Up to date, there are fourteen treatises that are known to have been written by Omar Khayyam […]. One of the difficulties of the research was the problem of finding the movies, and corresponding of English poems with Persian ones and vice versa and to do so Edward Heron- Allen’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with Their Original Persian Sources was undeniably useful. Keywords: carpe; cinej.2020.271; cinema; cinema journal; diem; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; khayyam; life; movies; online; quatrain; rubaiyat; scene; transiency; volume
• The Effects of Film Illumination Hues – An Exploration Study by Matbouly, Mustafa Mahmoud Yousry (2020) - This finding could be considered as one of the important of this study, as it is widely believed among cinematographers CINEJ Cinema Journal: Mustafa Mahmoud Yousry Matbouly Volume 8.2 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.278 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 366 that using warm color illumination in illuminating cinematic scenes helps in giving an angry mood to the characters. Guided by suitable methods of enquiry, this study has helped in understanding the possible effects of the two basic groups of illumination colors (i.e., warm, and cold hues) on cinematic images. Keywords: color; film; hues; illumination; journal; light; mood; online; study; volume
• Antiochia As A Cinematic Space and Semir Aslanyürek as a Film Director From Antiochia by Köksal, Selma (2020) - While working as a professor at Marmara University, Aslanyürek directed feature films and wrote many screenplays. This study will look at cinematic representation of Antiochia, a city with multiple identities, with a multi- cultural, long and deep historical background in Turkish director Semir Aslanyürek’s films. Keywords: antiochia; aslanyürek; cinej.2020.279 |; cinema; director; film; journal; online; selma; space; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Remembering Thomas Elsaesser and Peter Wollen by Akser, Murat (2020) - Peter Wollen will be remembered for his Signs and Meaning in the Cinema and as the father of structuralism in film studies. Wollen's work is not limited to the study of structuralism in film studies though he will most definitely be remembered as the father of this approach. Keywords: akser; amsterdam; cinej; cinema; elsaesser; film; journal; studies; thomas; wollen
• Review of Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen by Poulakis, Nick (2020) - As Walter Murch states in the tome’s foreword, “the analysis of sound in films has always been peculiarly elusive and problematical, if it was attempted at all” (p. viii). He proposes two zones (the “acousmatic” and the “visualized”) of this interaction where different varieties of sound (onscreen, offscreen and nondiegetic) could potentially be posed in films. Keywords: film; sound; vision
• The Social Implications of Metaphor in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite by Farahbakhsh, Alireza; Ebrahimi, Ramtin (2021) - | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.291 | http://cinej.pitt.edu CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Social Implications of Metaphor in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite Volume 9.1 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.291 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 88 The Social Implications of Metaphor in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite Introduction In his essay “The Distribution of Power Within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party”, Max Weber argues that class identities form, and take shape, not from interactions and encounters between the members of the same class, but from encounters with members from different classes (1978, 930). As mentioned earlier, it is only through relation with the members of different classes that class identities are constructed. Keywords: bong; cinej.2021.291 |; class; film; house; joon; parasite; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Rocky Balboa: The Innocent and the Invincible Hero of Low Income Class by Uysal, Yildirim (2021) - Abstract This study is aiming to scrutinize that how American low income class is represented in Rocky Balboa film series in regards of Rocky Balboa character. Microsoft Word - Yildirim Uysal, Rocky Balboa, Article (1).docx Rocky Balboa: The Innocent and the Invincible Hero of Low Income Class Yildirim Uysal, Bursa Uludag University, yildirimuysal@gmail.com Keywords: adrian; american; balboa; cinej.2021.311; cinema; cinema journal; class; class volume; fight; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; income class; journal; life; low; online; rocky; rocky balboa; tommy; volume
• Some Problems with Gendered Subjectivity and Representation: Baise Moi and Hard-Core Pornography by Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya (2021) - The fact that Baise Moi uses the same method in sex scenes might make it easier to support the initial claim of Downing, that the film reproduces the ‘erotic organization of visibility’ (Brown 1981, 10), in other words, the reductive representational strategies that naturalize sexual pleasure. Baise Moi and Hard-Core Pornography Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, National University of Ireland Galway, temmuzsr@gmail.com Keywords: baise; cinema; core; film; journal; moi; online; representation; sex; sexuality; volume
• Formation Of The Ambiguous Heroic Archetype: Three Jewish-American Film Actors And The United States’ Film System, 1929-1948 by McGuire, John Thomas (2021) - Keywords: Film archetypes; twentieth-century United States; Jewish-American film history; Jewish- American dramatic film actors; Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson; John Garfield New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. While gangster films have become an important oeuvre within American film, most critics and scholars agree that the genre’s most influential period occurred from 1927 through 1933, when Hollywood studios released such pictures as Underworld (1927), The Racket (1928), and The Public Enemy (1932) (“Beer and Blood,” 2007). Keywords: academy; actor; american; archetype; archetype volume; cinej.2021.322 |; cinema; cinema journal; film; formation; garfield; hollywood; jewish; john; journal; muni; new; online; press; robinson; thomas; university; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• A Moebial Ride through Polanski’s Repulsion by Tüzün, Defne (2020) - As Carole is gradually beset by CINEJ Cinema Journal: A Moebial Ride through Polanski’s Repulsion Volume 8.2 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.323 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 429 abjection, she falls back into the realm of the pre-symbolic and into the place of non- differentiation: the topology of the mother-child dyad. Despite the fact that his advances are consistently turned down by Carole, CINEJ Cinema Journal: A Moebial Ride through Polanski’s Repulsion Volume 8.2 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.323 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 451 and despite her apparent indifference to him, Colin insists upon seeing her. Keywords: camera; carole; cinej.2020.323 |; cinema; film; journal; online; repulsion; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• “About Miracles”: Seeing the “real thing” in Hong Sang-soo’s Woman on the Beach and Éric Rohmer’s Le Rayon vert by Hovind, Jacob (2021) - And if Hong’s mis-seeing men and all their over-intellectualized avoidance of reality consistently mark his CINEJ Cinema Journal: “About Miracles”: Seeing the “real thing” in Hong Sang-soo and Éric Rohmer Volume 9.1 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.326 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 249 cinema’s affinity to that of Éric Rohmer’s, that Hong indeed might be the twenty-first century’s great moralist filmmaker taking on the mantle of the French master’s project, then in learning how to approach what one of its characters repeatedly calls “the real thing,” Woman on the Beach looks back to Le Rayon vert (1986) specifically; while Hong’s men are consistently left trapped more or less in their own heads, then Woman on the Beach imagines a woman, like Rohmer’s Delphine before her, who learns instead to gaze out to sea, getting a glimpse of something real. Hong Sang-soo’s ethical games with reality From his feature debut, The Day the Pig Fell into a Well (1996) and its oblique narrative strategy of switching from one character’s seemingly isolated plot to another until their relations only gradually become clear, to his most recent exercise in Cézanne-like cinematic cubism, The Woman Who Ran (2020), Hong has gained a reputation as one of contemporary cinema’s great structuralists and puzzle-makers. Keywords: cinej.2021.326; cinema; delphine; film; hong; hong sang; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; jung; miracles; online; rae; real; reality; rohmer; seeing; soo; thing; volume
• Waking (Dreaming): A Vedantic Reflection on Richard Linklater’s Waking Life by Upadhyay, Jaya (2021) - The film’s reflection on the nature of dream and waking states has an obvious objective of grappling CINEJ Cinema Journal: Waking (Dreaming): A Vedantic Reflection on Richard Linklater’s Waking Life Volume 9.1 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.330 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 295 at the idea of consciousness and the self. The film is an intellectual exercise in pointing out the falsity of waking experiences, and it does that by showing a similarity between wakefulness and dreaming. Keywords: cinej.2021.330 |; consciousness; dreaming; film; life; linklater; online; waking; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Post-Coloniality: Projection of Ghana In Video-Films by Danso, Augustine (2021) - These criticisms, for the most part, are directed towards substandard video-film contents and the incorporation of various globalized narrative schemas in Ghanaian video films such as sex with nudity, gangsterism among others. The narrative of ghost vengeance in Ghanaian video films fictionalizes a murdered character wreaking spiritual and physical vengeance on his killers. Keywords: cinema; film; ghana; journal; narratives; post; society; texts; video
• Cinema, Life and Other Viruses: The Future of Filmmaking, Film Education and Film Studies in the Age of Covid-19 Pandemic by Akser, Murat (2020) - Most countries shut down film productions, film theatres and universities where new generation of filmmakers were trained. Abstract This issue of CINEJ Cinema Journal witnessed the devastating effects of COVID-19 global pandemic on filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, and teaching film at HE institutions. Keywords: cinej; cinej cinema; cinema; cinema journal; film; future; journal; life; online; studies
• The world of Assamese celluloid: ‘yesterday and today’ by Deka, Violet Barman (2021) - Small steps have been initiated to motivate the new dynamic in Assamese cinema production. It explores the new journey of Assamese cinema, which deals with small budgets, realistic approaches, and portraying stories from the native lanes. Keywords: assamese; assamese cinema; award; celluloid; cinej cinema; cinej.2021.358; cinema; cinema journal; film; filmmakers; http://cinej.pitt.edu; indian; industry; journal; national; new; online; production; stories; time; today; volume; world; yesterday
• The Wing Beat of the Butterfly. The Causality of Asymmetric Cultural Encounters and Escalation in Babel (2006) and Valley of Wolves – Iraq/ Kurtlar Vadisi – Irak (2006) by Bernard, Veronika (2011) - She further states that the movies Babel (2006) and Valley of Wolves – Iraq (2006) can be seen as cinematic adaptations of such cases putting the focus on the causality of asymmetric cultural encounters and escalation. Although being received by the public very differently 1 , Mexican born director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film Babel and Turkish director Serdar Akar’s production Valley of Wolves – Iraq have at least two aspects in common: They can be seen as political films, and they take the perspective of those being or feeling dis- privileged and victimized by situations of asymmetric cultural encounters 2 . Keywords: alemdar; babel; encounters; escalation; film; ibid; iraq; marshall; narrative; turkish; valley; wolves
• The Impulse-Image of Vampiric Capital and the Politics of Vision and Disability: Evil and Horror in Don’t Breathe by Wischert-Zielke, Moritz (2021) - Yet, both merely subsuming horror under the cultural reflections on evil and grounding it in a particular type of text (horror film, horror video game, etc.) in a classifying motion seem unsatisfying given said culturally and philosophically subversive potential of monstrous horror. Introduction Most historiographies of horror film have held to the view that “[a] psychic history of culture could be written very efficiently from the morphology of its monsters” (McConnell 1975, 136). Keywords: capital; cinej.2021.382; cinema; cinema journal; disability; evil; film; horror; http://cinej.pitt.edu; image; impulse; journal; man; online; politics; vision; volume; world
• Review of Shoe Reels: The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film by Ulusoy, Nilay (2021) - Shoes are privileged sites of gender performance and identification, shoes are sometimes a reminder of absent penis and symbol of the female genitals. As Ezra and Wheatley indicate in their foreword, shoes can never be dealt with as mere accessories. Keywords: article; characters; cinema; film; history; philosophy; shoe reels; shoes
• Real, Reel and the Anthropocene: Eco-trauma Testimonies in the Film Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal by Thomas, Bibin; Mathew, Reju George (2021) - Viewers are then pulled back to the past where the photographer is given the assignment to prepare a photo story on Endosulfan disaster and his first visit to the place. | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.391 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 150 winner for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation, as an illustrative text in Eco- trauma film genre. Keywords: anthropocene; chirakulla; cinema; disaster; eco; endosulfan; environment; film; journal; kasargod; online; pakshikal; pesticide; trauma; valiya; volume
• The Avenging Females: A Comparative Analysis of Kill Bill Vol.1-2, Death Proof and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance by Göksel Demiray, Basak (2012) - In the narrative, we learn from the Sheriff (the same one in Kill Bill vol. In Kill Bill vol. 1-2, women are not represented as sexy as they are in Death Proof. Keywords: beatrix; bill; female; film; kill; vol; women
• Review of Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema by Wilmink, Melanie (2021) - The editors, Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli, outline the intentions for the volume as an exploration not just of the materiality of cinema object, but rather an intervention into cinema “theory.” After the introduction where Murphy and Rascaroli explain the theoretical underpinnings of the book—emphasising that their intentions are not about “expanded cinema but expanding cinema” (38)—the book separates the essays into four thematic sections: Materialities, Immaterialities, Temporalities, and The Future of the Image. Keywords: art; cinema; film; theorizing; volume
• Yilmaz Güney’s The Fields of Yuréghir and Arkadaş: From Despair to Hope by Carruthers, Stephen (2021) - Abstract This article discusses two relatively unknown works of Yilmaz Güney in the English-speaking world: Boynu Bükük Öldüler (They Bowed their Heads in Shame), a semi-autobiographical novel, which in 1972 won the Orhan Kémal prize, and Arkadaş (The Friend), a film released in Turkey by Güney Film in 1974. The impact of neo-realism in Turkish intellectual cinema: The cases of Yılmaz Güney and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Keywords: arkadaş; cinej.2021.407; cinema; cinema journal; fields; film; güney; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; online; turkey; village; volume; yilmaz; yilmaz güney; yuréghir; âzem
• Historical “Truth,” Constructed Memory: Restaging Germany’s Reunification in Thomas Berger’s Television Melodrama Wir sind das Volk. Liebe kennt keine Grenzen (We are the people. Love without limits) (2008) by Mascha, Katrin B (2012) - Despite or in alliance with the fact that film production in Germany and Europe is becoming more and more a transnational affair, film scholar Sabine Hake argues for a “growing significance of German film and media culture to the self-representation of the Berlin Republic.” Films such as Roman Polanski’s The Pianist (2002), Marc Rothemund’s Sophie Scholl. Keywords: east; film; footnote; germany; history; images; memory; past; people; reunification; sind; volk; west; wir
• Diversity and Inclusion in Film, Television and Media Sector: Policy Alternatives for an Inclusive Film Industry and Training by Akser, Murat (2021) - One development that is on the agenda is diversity and inclusion in film industry, film education and film studies/criticism as institution. Still obstacles remain for those who want to move from entry to mid-level both in film industry as creatives and for academics who want to enter white dominated academia. Keywords: cinej; cinej cinema; cinema; cinema journal; diversity; film; inclusion; industry; journal; online; volume
• Necessary Fictions: From Cinéma vérité to Ciné, ma vérité(s) by Aquino, Rowena Santos (2012) - But while public history’s conceptualisation of reenactment limits itself to actors performing others’ pasts and experiences, that is, actor reenactment, I propose social actor reenactment. One, its use of reenactment is a mixture of actor reenactment and social actor reenactment in that it presents the making of a reenactment. Keywords: actors; cinema; documentary; experiences; film; iranian; makhmalbaf; past; post; reenactment; revolution
• The Songs of Pyaasa - A Narrative within a Narrative by Murthy, Srijana Siri (2023) - Dutt first envisions each song as a poem that conveys the emotional state of Pyaasa’s protagonist, Vijay. Only then can Vijay’s character transform with each song and transcend from material aspirations to a cerebral space by the end of the film. Keywords: cinej.2023.421; cinema; dutt; film; guru; hai; http://cinej.pitt.edu; india; journal; narrative; narrative volume; online; pyaasa; reality; society; song; vijay; volume; world; yeh
• Mapping Yeşilçam: A relational approach to the Turkish film industry by Savk, Serkan; Dogu, Burak (2021) - As CINEJ Cinema Journal: Mapping Yeşilçam: A relational approach to the Turkish film industry Volume 9.2 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.425 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 203 pointed out above, Yeşilçam film production was rushed in the heyday of the industry to meet the increasing demand from the audience. Keywords: Turkish cinema; Yeşilçam; film industry; history of cinema; network analysis; digital humanities New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: analysis; approach; cinej cinema; cinej.2021.425; cinema; cinema journal; doi; film; film industry; http://cinej.pitt.edu; industry; journal; mapping; network; online; players; turkish; type; volume; yeşilçam
• Locating the Storyteller in Silent Waters: Sabiha Sumar’s Cinematic Tale of Shared Histories and Divided Identities by Imran, Rahat (2021) - For practitioners from the Islamic world especially, specific religious circumstances, alongside interconnected restrictions concerning gender, influence the telling, as well as the funding, circulation, and exhibition, of cinematic life narratives.4 Precisely because cinema spells multi-level public exposure, it augurs, for Muslim women filmmakers and their Muslim female subjects in particular, a unique form of public exposure to conservative socio- CINEJ Cinema Journal: Locating the Storyteller in Silent Waters Volume 9.2 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.426 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 233 cultural and religio-political environments. It is difficult to overestimate the varied achievements of Muslim women filmmakers— considered both within their own national cultures and in terms of a global diaspora—in bringing women’s life stories to the fore. Keywords: auto; ayesha; biographical; cinej cinema; cinej.2021.426; cinema; cinema journal; film; history; http://cinej.pitt.edu; imran; india; journal; muslim; online; pakistan; partition; rahat; sikh; storyteller; sumar; veero; volume; waters; waters volume; women
• Secrets, Trauma, and the Memory Market (or the return of the repressed in recent Argentine post-dictatorship cultural production) by Tandeciarz, Silvia R (2012) - Luciano Benjamín Menéndez , the ex-general who led an unsuccessful coup against Junta President Viola and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role as director of the clandestine detention center in Córdoba, La Perla; and Mario Benjamín Menéndez, the ex-General appointed military governor of the Falklands during the war that ended the dictatorship. Twenty-five years after the fact, Benjamín has returned to Buenos Aires from a self-imposed insilio, or internal exile in Jujuy, and is attempting to write a novel based on his recollections of the case that determined his last quarter century. Keywords: argentina; benjamín; film; gómez; irene; justice; love; memory; morales; new; past; scene; state
• The Thin Blue Line: How can we destroy actuality with editing? by Kaymaz, Özlem Tuğçe (2012) - According to Murch, ideal cut for fictional film editing has some principles , such as, it is true to the emotion of the moment, it advances the story, it occurs at a moment the is rhythmically interesting and “right”, it acknowledges what you might call “eye-trace” that is concern with the location and movement of the viewer’s focus of interest within the frame , it respects “planarity” which is grammar of three dimensions transposed by photography to two, and it respects the three dimensional continuity of the actual space (Sokolov, 2008: 45). In fictional film editing, viewer accepts that this is fiction and wants to believe it. Keywords: documentary; editing; film; narration; new; reality
• Exposing the world through Emanuel Lubezki's method by Bagherzadeh, Majid; Sanati, Elyas; Naghipour, Masoud (2023) - In his older work, he's shot on film cameras such as the Arri cam LT or the Arri 235, which he favours for their more compact ergonomics. Abstract This article is based on the concept of exposing the world through the lens of cinema by the cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki. Keywords: camera; cinej.2023.447 |; cinema; film; lubezki; online; volume; world; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Changes in Women’s Representations in Turkish Cinema from the 1980s to the Early 1990s by Özen, Fatma (2021) - Taking over the responsibilities her husband must have, Aygül both challenges male domination as the breadwinner of the family and breaks down the prejudices that married women should not work, as other women working in the factory do. While he focuses on only the main female character throughout the film, he does not ignore other women in the narrative, and places them in various roles. Keywords: 1980s; aygül; cinema; cinema journal; film; journal; online; representations; turkish; volume; women
• Transperance Me I Want to be Visible: Gay Gaze in Tom Ford’s film A Single Man by Gokcem, Selen (2012) - According to Higgins (1993, 235-6), Gay men are able to subtly communicate their   CINEJ Cinema Journal: By providing a queer gaze analysis, this article will show how homosexual people live their intimate feelings by gaze and how gay gaze can be different from the classic gaze in a way that it does not reduces the other one in an interior position. Keywords: film; gay; gaze; george; man; queer
• The Mortality Narratives in Cultural Representations: Themes and Tropes in Malayalam Cinema by Gopinath, Swapna (2022) - Death, and discourses around death, surfaces repeatedly, in fact, the film begins with an old man, the protagonist, dreaming of a divine presence beckoning him, informing him that it is time for him to pass over. Death affects not just individuals but relationships, and the rhizomatic structures of social discourses are altered through ritualistic events like death. Keywords: cinej.2023.462; cinema; death; deleuze; doi; event; film; funeral; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; malayalam; mortality; new; online; volume
• For Western Eyes: Nelofer Pazira's Accented Returns to Afghanistan by Imran, Rahat (2023) - This paper constitutes part of Dr Rahat Imran’s research for her forthcoming monograph on Afghan women filmmakers (Routledge Publishers). Significantly, whereas in Return to Kandahar Pazira expressed the urge to 'pull off' the imprisoning burqa, in Act of Dishonour she sets out to lure her protagonist by promising to provide her the very same garment ('prison'?) to serve another facet of her formulaic accent. Keywords: accent; afghanistan; afghanistan volume; burqa; cinej cinema; cinej.2023.463 |; cinema; cinema journal; eyes; film; filmmaker; formulaic; honour; imran; journal; kandahar; media; naficy; nelofer; online; pazira; rahat; return; taliban; volume; war; women; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• The Black magic: An aesthetic analysis of its illustration in the sociohorteur film: Dachra by Ridene, Faten (2022) - We will try to answer all those questions through our article on film Dachra made by Abdelhamid Bouchnak. Keywords: Cinema; socio-horror movies; black magic; witchcraft; Immaterial Cultural Heritage; Dachra; Rithos Diabolicos; Abdelhamid Bouchnak New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: aesthetic; bouchnak; cinej.2022.464; cinema; cinema journal; dachra; figure; film; horror; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; magic; online; ridene; volume
• Ancient Telling, Contemporary Showing: A Reading of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) As Film Adaptation by Raissi, Poya; Ghaffari, Morteza (2023) - The present article discusses a selection of the most prominent elements in the process of The Killing of Sacred Deer adaptation, including: characterization, structure, inciting incident, dramatic situation, suspense, and certain narrative possibilities. The present paper aims to investigate the contemporary aspects of film adaptations of ancient plays, and to address the question of how story elements of Iphigenia at Aulis (405 BC) were specifically recreated in the adaptation of The Killing the Sacred Deer. Keywords: adaptation; deer; doi; film; hutcheon; journal; killing; sacrifice; volume
• Return to Reality: Towards A More Tactile Cognition of Film Theory by Akser, Murat (2012) - Ther are those who are interested in a more tactile sense of the real in film studies. In recent decades after the end of the Freudian regime in film studies, there emerged a renewed and invigoreate Lacanian regime. Keywords: film
• When Silence Becomes Overstretched: Exploring the Loud Silence in Women's Struggle for Liberation in Contemporary Nollywood by Emwinromwankhoe, Osakpolor (2023) - Nigerian women are, more often than not, faced with endless intimidation, oppression and marginalisation from the male folk. The comment arguably brings to the fore the way most Nigerian men perceive and treat Nigerian women. Keywords: cinej; cinej.2023.470; cinema; film; journal; kaima; liberation; nollywood; online; silence; volume; women
• The Blair Witch Project: Metatextual Layers of Subverting the Female Gaze by Moeck, Emily (2023) - In this sense, Heather becomes the Blair Witch that she herself was chasing and the implied documentary of The Blair Witch Project (and all its extratextual extremities, such as its missing posters featuring actress Heather Donahue) becomes a spectatorial invitation for another witch hunt. For Heather, this is the reassertion that Blair Witch—and all the objectification and historic demonization against women that she represents—exists. Keywords: blair witch; documentary; film; footage; gaze; heather; horror; myrick; sánchez; witch project
• Excursion among the Countries, Documentary, and Essay: Layered Narratives and Self-Representation in A Dog Called Money by Çalışkan, Özgür (2023) - Because the process of reflection in essay films is expressed through images, reflection, and representation, they work together (Montero, 2012, p. 61). In addition, the author’s own writing can make the artist an object of self-reflective research in essay films (Sayad, 2010, pp. 135–136). Keywords: artists; cinema; documentary; essay; film; harvey; images; journal; murphy; music; online; representation; self; volume
• Music, Magic, and the Mythic: The Dynamics of Visual and Aural Discourse in Souleymane Cissé’s Yeelen by Fisher, Alexander (2012) - Overtones and undertones: reading film music. For critics such as Manthia Diawara, Yeelen belongs to a wave of African films, produced in the 1980s, that sought to represent, in an international context, a sophisticated pre-colonial Africa, countering the distorted representations of the continent circulating in the West (particularly those of the ethnographic film), and thus undermining the dominant, Western representations of the continent as primitive. Keywords: camera; cinema; cissé; film; music; narrative; nianankoro; powers; spectator; volume; yeelen
• Slow Steps: The Institutional Development of Slovak Film From Proto-National to National Film 1939-1950 by Hudac, Nicholas David (2023) - While many scholars have done admirable work tracing the nuances of Slovak film and the development of Slovak film production during the New Wave and onward, scarce critical attention (in English or otherwise) has been paid to massive work that was needed to develop Slovak film (an entity which scarcely existed before the first Czechoslovak Republic dissolved in 1939) into a creative force during the 1960s. (NFA, (1941) Nástup, [annual reports], #3) Despite ever larger gross profits during the war which rose from 605,818 CINEJ Cinema Journal Othering New Women: Slow Steps: The Institutional Development of Slovak Film Volume 11.1 (2023) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2023.491 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 321 Slovak koruna in 1940 (NFA, (1941) Nástup, [annual reports], #3,) to 981,278 Slovak koruna in 1941 (NFA, (1942) Nástup, [annual reports], #4) and declining to 783,225 Slovak koruna in 1943 (NFA, (1944) Nástup, [annual reports], #5), Slovak film production did not rise to meet the demand, but remained static or even declined. Keywords: cinej.2023.491; cinema; czech; development; film; industry; journal; nationalization; nástup; online; period; production; slovak; slovakia; volume
• Autobiographical Traces in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman and Meetings with Anna by Carruthers, Stephen (2023) - Akerman was to raise these issues more directly in her later film D’Est (1993).16 Questions of displaced memory and indirect Jewish identity raised by Finkielkraut lie at the core of Chantal Akerman’s 1996 film D’Est Vertigo of presence: Chantal Akerman’s NOW, nomadic dwelling and the ‘war machine’ within the context of contemporary moving image works, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 19:2, 179- 201, doi: 10.1080/14702029.2019.1676998 The Fondation Chantal Akerman in collaboration with CINEMATHEK, repository of the archives of Chantal Akerman and Paradise Films, is developing a website as a center for research into Akerman’s body of work: https://chantalakerman.foundation/ 2 See: Mateus Araujo and Mark Cohen (2016). Keywords: akerman; anna; chantal; chantal akerman; dielman; doi; film; jeanne; journal; meetings; mother; online
• The impact of sound technology on the distribution of shot lengths in Hollywood cinema, 1920 to 1933 by Redfern, Nick (2012) - Love Me Tonight 1932 5.2 4.2 0.9858 <0.01 Charles O'Brien 07/05/08 1608 Melodía de arrabal 1932 6.9 5.5 0.9950 0.16 Charles O'Brien 01/05/08 1584 Million Dollar Legs 1932 3.3 2.4 0.9922 <0.01 Charles O'Brien 16/10/08 2102       CINEJ Cinema Journal: Nick REDFERN Volume 2.1 (2012) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2012.50 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 94   Title Year Median Qn Shapiro-Francia p Submitted by Date submitted Databas e ID Front Page, The 1931 10.0 8.8 0.9633 <0.01 Barry Salt 29/03/07 618 Lady Refuses, The 1931 5.4 3.7 0.9773 <0.01 Charles O'Brien 29/05/08 1717 Little Caesar 1931 7.1 5.3 0.9931 0.03 Charles O'Brien 22/05/07 741 Lonely Wives 1931 5.0 3.8 0.9735 <0.01 Charles O'Brien 28/05/08 1713 Mata Hari 1931 7.3 5.5 0.9926 0.01 Charles O'Brien 03/07/06 174 Miracle Woman, The 1931 6.0 5.1 0.9858 <0.01 Niels Beirnaert 29/07/09 3434 Keywords: charles; cinema; data; distribution; film; hollywood; hollywood cinema; median; o'brien; shot lengths; silent; sound; style
• A Narrative of An Ideological Destruction: Where Do We Go Now? by Aygün, Gamzenur; Tunç Cox, Ayça (2023) - Another distinction that should be emphasized at this point is the distinction between Ideology and ideologies. The well-known saying men were made in the image of God, which is common in religious ideologies, very well embodies the discourse of the subject being tied to the Subject in ideology (Althusser, 1970, p. 44). Keywords: althusser; cinema; film; ideology; journal; labaki; narrative; subject; village; women
• The Ambivalent Object(s) of America in Wim Wenders by Shervington, Laurent (2022) - | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2022.507 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 188 The Ambivalent Object(s) of America in Wim Wenders Laurent Shervington In the work of director Wim Wenders, in particular, his output during the New German Cinema movement (1970s – 1980s), the status of America takes on a certain aura of fascination. This development, read allegorically through CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Ambivalent Object(s) of America in Wim Wenders Volume 10.1 (2022) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2022.507 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 215 Wenders’ career of films marks his movement from the early narrative-less films to a place where narrative is accepted. Keywords: alice; america; cinej.2022.507; cinema; cinema journal; doi; fantasy; film; hammett; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; object; online; phil; volume; wenders; wim wenders
• Islam goes Hollywood. An exploratory study on Islam in Turkish cinema by Bruijn, Petra de (2012) - Since Turkish cinema depicts fictionalized historical or contemporary Turkish society, naturally Islamic elements have been represented in Turkish films. These sources show that Islamic religiosity as depicted in Turkish films has shifted over time. Keywords: cabbar; cinej.2012.51; cinema; emre; film; güney; hodja; islam; islamic; istanbul; i̇mam; journal; life; online; turkish; umut; volume; yılmaz
• Güneş Ne Zaman Doğacak?: A different approach from the perspective of Turkish cinematic art by Yılmazata, Mehmet; Güven, Erdem (2022) - The tremendous growth in Turkish films kicked off. Post 1960 Turkish films that targeted a political audience strove, in accordance with the postulates of social realism, to differentiate themselves from “copy-cat Hollywood” films. Keywords: approach; art; art volume; cinej cinema; cinej.2022.525; cinema; cinema journal; doğacak; film; güneş; http://cinej.pitt.edu; mehmet; national; ne zaman; online; perspective; turkish; volume; zaman; zaman doğacak
• Response to “Seeking God in Early Bergman: The Cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light” by Pua, Phoebe (2012) - Microsoft Word - CINEJ2012_4_DOI53_pages42-57.docx Response to “Seeking God in Early Bergman: The Cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light” Phoebe PUA Australian National University, phoebepua@gmail.com Volume 2.1 (2012) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2012.53 | http://cinej.pitt.edu   CINEJ Cinema Journal: Response to “Seeking God in Early Bergman: The Seventh Seal and Winter Light” Volume 2.1 (2012) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2012.53 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 43 Response to “Seeking God in Early Bergman: The Cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light” With her article, Esma Kartal contributes to the increasing body of scholarship addressing the religious motifs in Ingmar Bergman’s cinema during the late 1950s and early 1960s1. Keywords: antonius; bergman; cinema; death; film; god; light; seal; tomas; winter; winter light
• From “Makers of Images” to Cineastes? Looking Critically at Festivals and Critics’ Reception of Nollywood by Endong, Floribert Patrick C. (2023) - Even major film festivals seemed “not friendly” to Nollywood films. Today, the quality of Nollywood films has remarkably improved even though much is still to be done. Keywords: cinej.2023.533; cinema; fespaco; festival; film; filmmakers; http://cinej.pitt.edu; industry; journal; nigerian; nollywood; online; production; quality; video; volume
• Thirteen Days: A Political Reading by Oylumlu, İkbal Sinemden (2022) - President Kennedy did not want this information to leak at the first stage and they met with his advisors and discussed how to act in the face of the problem. CINEJ Cinema Journal: İkbal Sinemden Oylumlu Volume 10.1 (2022) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2022.537 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 316 Day 1: The first beginning of the Cuban missile crisis, the discovery and covert photography of missile launchers by American U-2 spy planes on October 15, 1962, Day 2: The onset of the Cuban crisis on October 16 and the archiving of the photographs of the missiles detected by the U-2 planes, on the same day President Kennedy convened the executive committee in the capital and evaluated the precautionary options that America could take. Keywords: cinema; crisis; decision; film; group; journal; kennedy; making; online; president; volume
• Experimenting with Epos: 3 Characters from 3 Directors in Turkish Cinema by Köksal, Selma (2023) - Many films that we have watched from around the world in recent years directly or indirectly describe problems such as urban life, loneliness, the rapid increase in the number of CINEJ Cinema Journal: Experimenting with Epos: 3 Characters from 3 Directors in Turkish Cinema Volume 11.2 (2023) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2023.548 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 197 unemployed and desperate young people. In this sense, when we examine the directors and films that started with pioneering directors such as Ömer Lütfi Akad (Gelin, Düğün, Diyet), Metin Erksan ((Susuz Yaz, Yılanların Öcü etc.), continued with Yılmaz Güney and his successors, and contributed to the realistic theme with different thematic evolutions with Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his generation, how many heroes do we have in our Turkish cinema who have been created in the courage to face their own existence and life and who have CINEJ Cinema Journal: Experimenting with Epos: 3 Characters from 3 Directors in Turkish Cinema Volume 11.2 (2023) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2023.548 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 179 made a great impact? Keywords: cinej; cinej.2023.548; cinema; cinema journal; epos; film; hero; journal; köksal; online; volume; zebercet
• Framing the Subaltern: Humanitarian Violence in Liz Mermin’s documentary The Beauty Academy of Kabul by Siriwardena, Deepthi (2023) - Through the representation of women Mermin strives to debunk many of the stereotypes associated with Afghan women. In addition, Mermin inserts several scenes which are explicitly targeted to undercut the stereotype of Afghan women as silent, meek and submissive by presenting them CINEJ Cinema Journal: Framing the Subaltern Volume 11.2 (2023) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2023.549 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 207 as inquisitive, questioning and even challenging of authority. Keywords: academy; afghan; american; beauty; documentary; film; journal; mermin; online; subaltern; women; world
• Same Story But Different Cover: The Substitution Principle in Religion and Understanding It Through Watching Films by Uğur, Gökhan (2013) - Religions can be changed over time or a society can have different religions in its history. That fact creates the connection between movies and telling religious stories. Keywords: bess; christ; cinema; film; human; jesus; journal; movies; new; religion; stories; story; trier
• Cinematic Mythology in the Narrative and Design of Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells by Kılınçarslan, Yasemin (2023) - Celtic knotworks, geometric forms that generate a flow and flight effect, application of enhancing the effect of gravity-free environment, optical illusions, interlacing curves, triskele symbols, spirals, and circular forms are notable in film design. Triskele motifs, which are frequently employed in film design, are also prevalent in Celtic art. Keywords: brendan; cinema; design; doi; film; forest; hero; journal; kells; narrative; online; secret; volume; world
• Cinematic Views on Critical Representations of the Economic Policies of the Democrat Party Era: Social Realist Film Initiatives in Turkish Cinema by Sarı Aksakal, Betül (2023) - Films produced under the influence of the social realism movement can be considered films that can go beyond the collective language of Yeşilçam Cinema, circulate on the shores of melodrama but do not always penetrate it, and always follow the social affairs. CONCLUSION Cinema films cannot be evaluated independently of the political, social, and economic developments of the country they belong to; on the contrary, they mirror these developments. Keywords: aksakal; betül; cinej cinema; cinej.2023.569; cinema; cinema journal; class; democrat party; era volume; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; i̇stanbul; movement; movie; online; party era; people; policies; representations; sarı; turkey; views; volume; workers
• Auteur and Style in National Cinema: A Reframing of Metin Erksan's Time To Love by Akser, Murat (2014) - Also with the economic drive initiated by the newly elected Democrat Party governments, domestic production and consumption of Turkish films increased. Turkish films with Hollywoodish style do not appeal to Turkish people, and the Turkish directors should resist such filmmaking. Keywords: cinej.2013.57; cinema; erksan; film; journal; love; movement; national; online; time; turkish; volume
• Seeking the Political Function of Time-Image in New Turkish Cinema from a Deleuzian Perspective by Cantaş, Azime (2023) - The concept of minor cinema is not directly included in Deleuze's cinema books. In Kafka: For a Minor Literature, he evaluates minor cinema through Orson Welles' Kafka adaptation The Trial and Jean Luc Godard's films. Keywords: cinej.2023.571; cinema; deleuze; film; image; journal; minor; necati; new; online; sisters; time; veysel; volume
• The Eye of the Tiger, Amongst Other Animals: The Non-Chinese Viewer’s Guide to the Symbolic Significance of Animals in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin by Pang, Kar Lok (2024) - Keywords: Chinese film; media; East Asian cinema; Asian film; China; animals on film New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2024.575 | http://cinej.pitt.edu http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Eye of the Tiger, Amongst Other Animals Volume 12.1 (2024) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2024.575 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 2 The Eye of the Tiger, Amongst Other Animals: The Non-Chinese Viewer’s Guide to the Symbolic Significance of Animals in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin1 Kar Lok Pang Introduction The English title of Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin (2013) evokes the title of iconic Chinese martial arts film A Touch of Zen (1971), which might lead the non-Chinese viewer to fall back on clichés surrounding Chinese martial arts films to understand Jia’s production. Keywords: animals; china; chinese; cinema; dahai; film; jia; journal; online; san’er; tiger; viewer; volume
• Memory, Identity and Desire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive by Akser, Murat (2012) - To have her completely, Diane creates a second level of fantasy, like a dream within a dream (S1-F2). In S2, where we see Diane having sex with Camille, they try to engage in genital pleasure but Camille is extremely disturbed by this, just like masturbation, which gives a shock like a blurring of reality and fantasy in her vision. Keywords: adam; betty; cinema; diane; doi; drive; fantasy; film; lynch; mulholland; rita
• Joker: Film, Working Class and Post-Truth by Uysal, Yildirim (2023) - Köpüklü's perspective is an interpretation which we disagree with because we think that Joker makes an explicit call which is based on class concept. It can be thought that the interest which has been presented to Joker is due to its ability to analyze the position of the working class who have been affected by the changing production relations, as well as to carry a latent inspiration and leadership role for working class on the class consciousness issue. Keywords: cinej.2023.587; cinema; class; doi; film; fleck; http://cinej.pitt.edu; joker; journal; online; people; post; society; system; truth; volume; working; working class
• Mapping the Trajectory of Adolescent Sexuality: The Portrait of Durga in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali by Gupta, Rebanta; Aniket Roy (2024) - Though little Durga seems innocuous on the surface, her adolescent version appears to be more tomboyish, virile, and rustic; instead of feminine softness and genteelness, she appears to be more masculine and assertive, especially “[w]hen Durga is chewing sugarcane or staring off—never at some random middle distance, but far off, with a specific target—she is not just Durga but a cowboy” (Chew-Bose, 2017). The names of the character and the actress portraying it uncannily intersect, as Uma is one of the names of the Hindu Goddess Parvati, who is occasionally linked with the figure of Goddess Durga in an exercise to equate two similar iconographic templates. Keywords: cinej.2024.588; cinema; durga; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; online; panchali; pather; ray; sexuality; volume; woman
• A Corpus-Based Socio-Onomastic Analysis On Turkish And American Horror Film Naming by Bozkurt, Ferdi; Mohammadi , Mandana Kolahdouz (2023) - Diagram 3 Creatures in USA horror films and their years Table 5 indicates the creatures used in Turkish horror film naming and the years filmmakers used to use them. Diagram 4 Creatures in Turkish horror films and their years Table 6 indicates the animals used in USA horror film naming and the years filmmakers used to use them. Keywords: american; cinema; corpus; doi; film; horror; horror film; journal; naming; online; usa; volume
• Editorial by Akser, Murat (2012) - Abstract This issue of CINEJ focuses on issues ranging from Malian Cinema, Islam in Turkish cinema, Bergman, Mulholland Drive and sound in early Hollywood cinema. Next essay is on Islam in Turkish cinema. Keywords: cinej; cinema; film
• Getting Your Money Back: Swedish Funding Institutions and Questions About Quality Films by Cerrahoğlu, Zehra (2023) - Keywords: film funding; film policy; Sweden; Swedish Film Institute; film production; film industry New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. A background to public film funding in Sweden Since the 1960s, the production structure in the Scandinavian countries has gradually shifted from a market-driven culture with big companies dominating to “a much more diverse and CINEJ Cinema Journal: Getting Your Money Back: Swedish Funding Institutions Volume 11.1 (2023) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2023.595 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 391 fragmented structure based on public support, with very few big and strong production companies and a lot of small and somewhat unstable production companies” (Bondebjerg and Novrup Redvall, 2011, p. 37). Keywords: cinema; film; funding; industry; institute; issn; journal; online; production; swedish; volume
• Sound Design in the Turkish TV Series and Cinema Sector: Post-Production Stage by Akikol, Rahime; Atmaca Demir, Bahar; Zülfikar, Haluk (2024) - Besides sound effects, “foley” is another important stage of sound design, and there are some specific differences between sound effects makers and foley artists. Although the addition of sound effects, such as the sound of a punctured tire or the sound of a door opening, are the first components that come to mind when considering sound design, the field of sound design is much larger. Keywords: cinema; design; film; foley; journal; online; post; production; sector; sound; sound design; volume
• An Exploration of the Changing Reputation of Spring In A Small Town at Different Times by Bi, Kaihui (2024) - Chinese film: 1947-1949. As China's economic development contributed to the growing international status of Chinese cinema, Spring in a Small Town was constructed as a representative of Chinese film theory, as claimed by the Chinese film school, and as a link to China's poetic tradition. Keywords: china; chinese; cinema; fei; film; hong; journal; kong; online; reputation; spring; town; volume
• The Possibility of Impossibility: Reading The Watermelon Woman with Derrida and Adorno by Morris, Christopher (2024) - These foun- dationless signs are amenable to being shaped into any narrative whatsoever, as Camille Paglia and Cheryl Dunye demonstrate, in a never-ending process that returns viewers and critics to Cheryl’s state of possible impossibility. Because no last name is given for this character even in the credits, I identify her throughout as “Cheryl,” except in the last sentence, where “Cheryl Dunye” refers to the director of The Watermelon Woman. Keywords: adorno; black; cheryl; cinej; cinej.2024.599; cinema; derrida; fae; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; identity; journal; online; possibility; richards; volume; watermelon woman
• Woman’s Cinema on the Sri Lankan Silver Screen and the "Other" Female Filmmakers by Bandaranayake, Lanka (2024) - Cases of Female Producers In contrast to female film directors, a slightly higher number of female film producers can be found in Sri Lankan cinema history. Secondary data such as formal records released by the Sri Lankan Film Corporation to study cases of Sri Lankan films released by female filmmakers in the local theatres, and interviews and personal conversations used to gather data on other female filmmakers. Keywords: cinej; cinej cinema; cinema; cinema journal; female; film; filmmakers; filmmaking; http://cinej.pitt.edu; industry; journal; lankan; lankan cinema; online; producers; screen; silver; sri; sri lankan; volume; women
• Imagining Friends and Foes: The (Re)Education of Jojo Rabbit by Skiles, William (2024) - As we turn to Jojo Rabbit, I will argue that Jojo’s friendship with Hitler is one based on utility—that is, on Hitler’s need for Jojo as an “Aryan” soldier for the Third Reich and Jojo’s need for Hitler as an authority figure, model, and companion. 19 Jojo Rabbit, Digital Film, 40:00. 20 At one point, Hitler cuts short his conversation with Jojo and says, “Oh, got to go! Keywords: cinej.2024.601 |; cinema; film; foes; friend; friendship; germany; hitler; jojo; jojo rabbit; journal; nazi; online; rabbit; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Being Queer in Turkish Cinema: Existence, Appearance, and Representation by Ege, Övünç (2024) - This study examines the evolution of queer representation in Turkish cinema from its inception to the present, highlighting queer identities and representation issues through the lens of Judith Butler's queer theory. This study focuses on queer representations that reinforce otherness in Turkish cinema, exploring why they are underrepresented, and the problems associated with their representation. Keywords: cinej.2024.603; cinema; cinema journal; codes; doi; existence; film; gender; http://cinej.pitt.edu; identities; identity; journal; lgbtqia+; online; queer; representation; volume
• Beyond The “Joker” Movie: Cinema As A Politainment Agent by Dalkılıç, Ibrahim (2023) - Within the framework of this study, Joker film evaluated thematically as a political entertainment thus this article aims to enlighten the relationship between cinematic representation and political circumstances through the perspective of Douglas Kellner's Cinema Wars narrative. The goal of this study was to break down Joker film to examine its ideological and aesthetic representations within the social, political and cultural context in the timeframe when the film was released to build up a bridge between political reality through the employment of cinematographic machinery. Keywords: cinej cinema; cinej.2023.606; cinema; cinema journal; entertainment; film; fleck; http://cinej.pitt.edu; joker; motion; movie; online; politainment; volume
• Authorship in Cinema: Author & Reader by Göksel Demiray, Başak (2015) - From the very beginning of the studies on cinema, it has been asserted that there should be a creative power, I mean an individual creator - implying an ‘artistry’ but naming it variously - like photoplay master, filmmaker, filmwright, director, author, author-director, camera-pen, cinematic author or auteur on the basis of the filmmaking activity. CINEJ 4 Authorship in Cinema: Author & Reader Başak Göksel Demiray, bgksel@gmail.com Keywords: author; authorship; cinema; film; lapsey; reader; style; westlake
• Reading Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Against the Backdrop of His Cinematic Expression by Onay, Özge (2024) - The opening sequence, Danny’s tricycle scenes, and the hedge maze episodes serve as lenses through CINEJ Cinema Journal: Reading Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Against the Backdrop of His Cinematic Expression Volume 12.1 (2024) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2024.621 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 387 which we decipher Kubrick’s unique narrative language. It lacks redemption even in terms of technical prowess—while Kubrick may have found enjoyment in deploying helicopter and Steadicam shots, they hardly stand out considering his previous technical feats (Kolker and Abrams, 2019). Keywords: camera; danny; film; hotel; kubrick; maze; scene; shining; shot; stanley; stanley kubrick
• The Ultimately Determinant Role of Economy in Yilmaz Güney's Movies: An Essay From the Perspective of Marxist Theory by Sarı Aksakal, Betül (2024) - It also aims to contribute to the literature on constructing political discourse, based mainly on Marxist thought, in Yılmaz Güney films. In this study, Yılmaz Güney films are discussed within their ideological functions. Keywords: cabbar; cinej; cinej cinema; cinej.2024.622; cinema; cinema journal; class; differences; economic; economy; film; güney; http://cinej.pitt.edu; ideology; life; marx; movies; online; people; role; system; turkey; volume; yılmaz güney
• Wenders in Motion: A Study On The Way Of Characterization In Wim Wenders’ Road Movies by Pehlivan, Erman (2013) - Wim Wenders Cinema 76 Coles, Michael (Summer, 2001) Interview with Wim Wenders DoubleTake Magazine Vol. 7 No.3 Corrigan, Timothy (Autumn,1981 - Winter, 1982) Both the skittish boy in the story and the characters in Wenders' road films act like true Baudelairish voyagers and without knowing why, they leave just to be leaving. Keywords: alice; berlin; bruno; cinema; film; journal; journey; motion; movie; new; online; philip; road; robert; time; travis; volume; wenders; wim; wim wenders
• A Sentimental Android? M3GAN (2022) and Monstrous Doubling as a Negotiation of the Gendered Neo-Liberal Self by Eden, Michael (2024) - We see M3GAN singing and dancing as a form of interacting with Cady – teaching each other movements for example – there is no doubt that much like a parent, M3GAN in those CINEJ Cinema Journal: Michael Eden Volume 12.1 (2024) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2024.633 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 428 interactions, is incubating a subjective position for Cady reflecting to her Cady’s own qualities, serving to stabilise an image of self and to develop attitudes to people and events. Moreover, that this primary anxiety regarding the unstable role of women guarantees that the female form, in this case the child sized android M3GAN, becomes a potent symbol for societal values turned over and re-made to guarantee their continuance into the future. Keywords: android; cady; cinej.2024.633; cinema; doubling; film; gemma; gendered; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; m3gan; negotiation; neo; online; self; self volume; volume; women
• Ecranisation Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun by Sagmon, Brigette; Gomez, Elizabeth Gwen (2024) - According to Hutcheon, L. (2012) as cited by Saputra, W. A., Karimah, A. I., & Zaidi, A. (2023) in film adapted novels, the storytelling aspect undergoes compressed narrative arc that can be transformed, time condensed or expanded and this is where the question of fidelity is raised. Literary film adaptation and the form/content dilemma. Keywords: adaptation; analysis; cinej cinema; cinej.2024.639 |; cinema; cinema journal; ecranisation; film; half; journal; novel; online; process; sun; sun volume; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Masochistic Performance of Scheherazade: A Multimodal Analysis of Prince Charming by Zafar, Attiya; Anwar, Nadia (2024) - The shying away of the subject and the object in simultaneous manner manifests the presence of masochistic aesthetics in the scene. [Editor’s Note]: Masochistic aesthetics in cinema was theorised previously in the 1980s in works like Studlar (1985), Mmizejewski (1987). Keywords: aesthetics; camera; charming; cinej; cinej.2024.646; cinema; film; journal; masochist; online; performance; prince; scheherazade; self; volume
• Review of Farmed Animals on Film: A Manifesto for a New Ethic by Packwood Freeman, Carrie (2024) - On the contrary, from the first paragraph, author Stephen Marcus Finn makes it clear he is studying animal rights films and advocating for filmmakers to help society see farmed animals as individuals not food commodities, noting his choice of language is intentional, saying “‘farmed’ is a verb that indicates that the animals are there under duress, their lives dictated by humans” (p. 2). As a vegan and critical animal and media studies scholar who co-authors animalsandmedia.org guidelines, I appreciate Finn’s uplifting of animal rights films aimed at ending animal exploitation for food. Keywords: animals; film; finn; manifesto; new; rights
• Calcutta Through Different Lenses: Revisiting India in Jean Renoir’s The River and Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy by Chakraborty, Ayush (2024) - This landscape, mostly wrought by his imagination, aligning the film with the centuries’ old discourse that the West had propagated about the East, and by choosing to be oblivious about the harsh realities of the Indian scene for its edification by the Western audience, his “authentic” portrayal of India was limited simply to the gross generalisations of the West. Renoir became a huge inspiration for Satyajit Ray who had met the veteran director during his first visit to India to scout locations for The River. Keywords: orientalism; post-colonialism; Satyajit Ray; Jean Renoir; Hollywood; Bengali art cinema; Rasa theory; Calcutta New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: apu; calcutta; cinej; cinej.2024.656; cinema; film; india; journal; online; ray; renoir; river; volume
• The Lexicons of Cult Film: Rhetoric, Media, and The Big Lebowski by Jones, Andrew C; Williams, Sebastian; Martin, Lonnie (2025) - Keywords: rhetoric; The Big Lebowski; Kenneth Burke; fan studies; cult film; Hollywood New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. In this essay, we further consider the communicative functions of cult films such as The Big Lebowski, asking how they contribute to language more broadly.2 Keywords: burke; cinej.2025.659; cinema; cult; dude; fans; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; lebowski; online; viewers; volume
• The Tale Of Gandhi Through The Lens: An Inter-Textual Analytical Study Of Three Major Films- Gandhi, The Making Of The Mahatma, And Gandhi, My Father by Murthy, C.S.H.N.; Meitei, Oinam Bedajit; Tariang, Dapkupar (2013) - For most of the questions raised by Patwardhan on the portrayal of Gandhi in Gandhi film, the Amdedkar film offers explanations with regard to the issues of difference in the epistemology of Gandhi and Ambedkar. Conclusions The study on a range of Gandhi films with three main biopics as case studies has brought in to focus that there were many historical misrepresentations both in the cinema and hermeneutic. Keywords: africa; ambedkar; attenborough; bhagat; cinej cinema; cinej.2013.66; cinema; cinema journal; father; film; gandhi; http://cinej.pitt.edu; india; journal; life; mahatma; making; murthy; online; singh; south; study; volume
• From Cinema to Youtube: Globalization and Active Audience of KKN Di Desa Penari Film by Triantoro, Dony Arung; Pramana, M. Agung (2025) - The author is more interested in seeing the production and consumption of youth for KKN Di Desa Penari film via YouTube. However, whether YouTube weakens the role of cinemas in showing KKN Di Desa Penari films or even loses its market share is a complicated issue. Keywords: audience; cinema; desa; desa penari; di desa; film; indonesia; journal; kkn; kkn di; online; penari; volume; youth; youtube
• Singin’ in the Cave: Singin’ in the Rain and Hollywood’s Sparkling Shadows by Alon-Altman, Talya (2025) - Don’s love for Kathy is bound to his love of films, and more precisely – his love for musical films. Following this notion, CINEJ Cinema Journal: Talya Alon-Altman Volume 13.2 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.661 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 83 Singin’ in the Rain portrays a romantic plotline: a love story between Don and Kathy, and a public plotline that deals with the coming of sound and the creation of musical films. Keywords: cinema; don; film; journal; kathy; love; online; rain; singin; volume
• Il Cinema Modernissimo – Where every film is an underground film by Mintz II, Herbert F. (2024) - At a cost of 6.6 million euros, this re-constructed film theater, built over the site of a previous 1915 film theater, would open to the public for film exhibition in November 2023. Compared to the increasing standardization of film exhibition by the proliferation of the film multiplex, by the diminution of the big screen experience by streaming services and of viewing a film on a ‘device’, I stood wonderstruck. Keywords: bologna; cinema; film; journal; modernissimo; online; volume
• ‘The Dude is not in’: How the Coen Bros.’ slacker detective upends Joseph Campbell’s hero’s arc by Althoff, Eric (2025) - While Campbell’s monomyth outlines a transformative cycle in which the hero confronts trials, attains wisdom and returns from his journey to spread knowledge unto others, the Dude—cast as a bumbling, slacker-detective—fails to achieve enlightenment or growth, effectively stumbling into partial solutions despite his lack of acumen. Through dream sequences, noir conventions and the figure of the extra-natural Stranger, the film teases the structural signposts of the Campbellian arc only to undermine them, positioning the Dude as both clown and unwitting hero who “abides” without transformation. Keywords: arc; big; campbell; cinej; cinej.2025.665; cinema; coen; detective; dude; film; hero; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; lebowski; online; volume
• Sleeping through The Big Lebowski: Sleep, Dreams, and Rest in the Coen Brothers' Films and Jeff Bridges' Music by Britt, Thomas (2025) - The actor sounds uncannily like his depiction of Big Lebowski protagonist The Dude. This scene includes point-of-view camera directions and visual transitions common among other sleeping scenes in Coen brothers' films like Blood Simple and Barton Fink. Keywords: bridges; cinej.2025.670; cinema; coen; coen brothers; dream; dude; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; lebowski; online; sleep; sleeping; volume
• The Deconstruction of Patriarchal Honor in Turkish Cinema: An Analysis Of Female Characters Resisting Patriarchy Across Three Genres by Ün, Hakan (2025) - Gürkan and Biga (2022) note that women characters in films directed by women are often relegated to secondary roles, failing to take the lead in their own liberation and narratives. hun@mehmetakif.edu.tr Abstract In Turkish society, as in all patriarchal communities dominated by an honor culture, the concept of honor, while holding different implications for men and women, is largely reduced to the strict control of women’s bodies. Keywords: analysis; aslı; characters; cinej cinema; cinej.2025.672; cinema; cinema journal; control; deconstruction; father; film; genres; honor; http://cinej.pitt.edu; nazlı; online; patriarchy; society; turkey; values; virginity; volume; women
• Zuhal: A Portrait of Urban Individuals Through Female Perspective by Uzun Yedekci, Emel (2025) - Handan hugs Zuhal and then Zuhal leaves the house. Another supporting character from whom we can very clearly observe the pressure of achievement society is the young girl who works with Zuhal. Keywords: cat; cinej.2025.675; cinema; film; han; http://cinej.pitt.edu; individual; journal; online; perspective; society; volume; woman; zuhal
• Triangle of Sadness: Of Vulnerability and Michel Foucault's Subject-Power Concept by Özer, Beril; Özer, Nuri Paşa (2025) - Daily life on the island flows just like in the city; power relations, defenders of power, and the fear of opposing authority exist here as well. Power relations continue in yacht life; the wealthier passengers have power over the less wealthy, all guests have power over the captain, the captain has authority over the white-collar staff, and the white-collar staff exert power over the crew members at the lowest level of the yacht. Keywords: abigail; authority; carl; cinej.2025.677; film; foucault; journal; online; power; subject; volume; vulnerability; yaya; özer
• Death, Aging, and Ecology in The Ballad of Narayama (1983) by Altınkaya, M. Talha (2025) - While The Ballad of Narayama centers on the relationship between death and ecological sustainability, Ikiru explores modern death in an urban, industrialized environment, where the protagonist’s efforts to leave a lasting legacy are more symbolic than ecological. In documentary films, death is an authentic CINEJ Cinema Journal: Death, Aging, and Ecology in The Ballad of Narayama (1983) Keywords: aging; ballad; cinema; death; film; life; narayama; online; survival; volume
• Chop Shop and Foreign Parts settle on the fuzzy boundary between fiction and documentary: new representations of New York City in Contemporary Cinema. by Canet, Fernando (2013) - With this approach, the fiction films must make a bigger effort to achieve higher levels of authenticity because their form of expression, based on the staging, is not helpful for that purpose, so that fiction films have historically had to make use of strategies and codes from the documentary to achieve a greater sense of realism. Just as it is crucial for a documentary to coexist with reality, the same can be said for fiction films. Keywords: chop; cinema; documentary; fiction; film; new; parts; point; reality; shop; willets
• Green Border: Cinematic Storytelling as History of the Present by Yakalı, Dikmen; Erdoğan, Zahide (2024) - Belarus border crisis: How are migrants getting there? Tusk pledges further ‘fortification’ of Belarus border amid ‘hybrid war of illegal migration’. Keywords: belarus; border; cinej.2024.680; cinema; crisis; film; green; history; journal; migrants; online; present; volume
• Liu Na’ou And The 1930s Soft Film Movement: A New Approach In Revisionist Chinese Film Historiography by Ong, Donna (2013) - It is clear that after Cheng Jihua’s book, almost all historical studies mention Liu Na’ou and the “Soft Film”, albeit with inaccuracies, and marks the “Hard film vs. Soft Film” debate as a major event in Chinese film history. It challenges the naming of “Soft Film” through examining documents beyond the official archive. Keywords: 1930s; chinese; cinej.2013.69 |; cinema; film; film history; film movement; history; journal; leftist; liu; liu na’ou; movement; na’ou
• Finding Leadership in Media Education by Baybars, Banu; Akser, Murat (2024) - To complement such teaching and curriculum and module design we support interdisciplinarity of different aspects of filmmaking and different arts as well as humanities and social sciences feeding into student learning. It is standard in film production teaching to have people with industry experience as lecturers and we are glad the students felt that way and were able to recognize this quality. Keywords: cinema; education; film; industry; journal; learning; media; online; students; teaching; volume
• The Relation of Film, Literature, and Music: The Big Lebowski’s Soundtrack as a Means of Significance Beyond the Anglophone World by Pranger, Carlos Gerald; Gutierrez Reyes, Cintia (2025) - Additionally, we examine how the iconic Quintana bowling scene, which resonates with Spanish audiences, establishes connections with film genres such as the Spanish cine quinqui. c.gutierrezreyes@gmail.com Abstract Considering films as semiotically “multitrack” texts that integrate elements from different arts —writings—, this chapter analyzes the relationship between The Big Lebowski (1998), Carter Burwell’s soundtrack selection for the film, composed mainly of preexisting songs, and Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep (1939). Keywords: big; big lebowski; cinej.2025.695 |; cinema; coen; dude; film; jesus; journal; lebowski; music; online; soundtrack; volume; world; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• The American Dark Ages and the Terrorist Witch in Season of the Witch by Vercruysse, Tom (2013) - Keywords: Season of the Witch, medieval film, The Seventh Seal, medieval witchcraft, the crusades, Hollywood Arthuriana   New  articles  in  this  journal  are  licensed  under  a  Creative  Commons  Attribution  3.0  United   States  License.   The story of the film was considered to be “ridiculous”, flawed with historical inaccuracies and poorly executed mainly due to “unconvincing” CGI and bad acting.i Despite this poor reception by the critics Season of the Witch is a remarkable example of how meaning is constructed in medieval films. Keywords: ages; american; cinema; crusades; film; girl; journal; meaning; medieval; middle; season; witch; witchcraft
• Between the Law and Desire: The Split Subject in Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero by Kolahjooei, Farzad (2025) - In a linear, straightforward plotline, Farhadi depicts a few days off prison of a debt prisoner, Rahim (Amir Jadidi), who desperately attempts to make an agreement with his creditor in order not to return to prison once his leave is over. With almost everyone against him, Rahim returns to prison at the end of the film as he is unable to repay his debt. Keywords: cinema; desire; farhadi; film; hero; online; prison; rahim; subject
• Frank Sinatra: Jazz Actor by Tomasulo, Frank (2025) - But, then, Sinatra had always been able to evoke in music the same blend of self-confidence and resignation, contempt and caring, CINEJ Cinema Journal: Frank Sinatra: Jazz Actor Volume 13.2 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.708 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 257 that marked all of these film antiheros. Although in this case he allegedly got the best acting part of his career by switching gears after several unsuccessful takes at his screen test, Frank Sinatra was known in the film business as a one-take Charlie, that is, as an instinctual performer who was reluctant to repeat takes in order to improve his performance (Sinatra 111, Wilson 135). Keywords: acting; actor; cinej.2025.708; cinema; film; frank; frank sinatra; http://cinej.pitt.edu; jazz; journal; online; roles; screen; sinatra; volume
• The Filmic Representation of Women: Paradigm Versus Perspective in the Depiction of Women in Funke Akindele’s Two Selected Works by Ilori, Sanjo; Oyewo, Adewale; Oyeleye, Olamiposi (2025) - The Filmic Representation of Women: Paradigm Versus Perspective in the Depiction of Women in Funke Akindele’s Two Selected Works Sanjo Ilori, Osun State University, sanjo.ilori@uniosun.edu.ng Adewale Christopher Oyewo, Osun State University, adewale.oyewo@uniosun.edu.ng Olamiposi Oyeleye, Osun State University, olamiposi.oyeleye@uniosun.edu.ng Abstract Funke Akindele's holistic portrayal of women in She Must Be Obeyed and A Tribe Called Judah has transcended the biases of just putting women in the limelight given the multifaceted nature women, like men, possess. Cooperation among women is later signified in the scene where Testimony acknowledges that Jedidah is a good woman who has the CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Filmic Representation of Women Volume 13.2 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.711 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 12 habit of helping other women succeed. Keywords: akindele; cinema; female; feminist; film; jedidah; journal; online; siyanbola; tito; volume; women
• Spatial Thresholds and Existential Dilemmas in New Turkish Cinema: A Reading of Something Useful by Ozgür, Ozlem; Büyükpala, Mehmet Serdar (2025) - Therefore, threshold spaces not only provide passage but also shape the social meaning of a space (Boettger, 2014). The interaction of individuals with threshold spaces is not solely associated with thresholds; it is also related to the locations at the threshold of a space, including doors, door curtains, curtains, glass, and windows (Boettger, 2014). Keywords: cinej cinema; cinej.2025.712; cinema; cinema journal; dilemmas; figure; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; leyla; life; new; online; reading; serdar; space; threshold; train; volume; yavuz; özgür
• Remembering The Civil War in Today’s Lebanese Cinema by Evecen, Gökhan; Serter, Sırrı Serhat (2025) - In an interview, Director Ziad Doueiri, who has focused on collective memory narratives in Lebanese cinema since the Civil War, stated that although the Civil War officially ended, its effects continued and that the conditions that gave rise to the war persisted due to a lack of reckoning with the past (Khatib, 2008). The act of remembering the past and confronting traumas is rendered through the medium of personal recollections by the directors, thus creating a narrative of collective memory. Keywords: cinej cinema; cinej.2025.714; cinema; cinema journal; cinema volume; civil; collective; film; identity; lebanon; memory; online; past; traumatic; volume; war
• Nation, Genre and Female Performance in Canadian Cinema by Akser, Murat (2013) - Abstract This paper outlines a theory of style and performance in Canadian film based on geography, gender and genre. Canadian films are made with tax dollars and have comparatively smaller distributions. Keywords: canadian; cinej.2013.72; cinema; dead; female; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; mooney; nature; online; sandra; space; volume; women
• Coding And Signification In Cinema: Semiological Perusal Of The Film In The Shadows by Kotan, Semra (2025) - Semiology, which is a field that defines sign systems and describes the relationship between signs, has a very wide conceptual network in this sense. Therefore, the meaning of a sign conventionally gains existence through its relationship with other signs within the system in CINEJ Cinema Journal: Coding and Signification in Cinema: Semiological Perusalof The Film In The Shadows Volume 13.2 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.725 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 319 which it is defined. Keywords: cinej cinema; cinej.2025.725 |; cinema; cinema journal; film; language; meaning; object; online; power; shadows; sign; system; volume; workers; zait; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Is She Still There?: Child Sex Trafficking, Traumatic Memory and Resilience in Mischa Marcus’ Film I Am Still Here by Kumari, Sheetal (2025) - She is currently working on child sex trafficking, and her doctoral work focuses on interpretations of child trauma narratives. Additionally, the consequences of child sexual abuse on Layla’s relationships and self-esteem are explored throughout the film. Keywords: abuse; child; cinej.2025.730; cinema; film; journal; layla; marcus; memory; online; resilience; sex; trafficking; trauma; violence; volume
• Avatar: A Film at the Center of the Feminine Other by Güregen Dereboyu, Pelin; Güzel, Ebru; Olaru, Gabriela Oana; Ayberk, Erhan (2025) - There is also the hegemonic superiority of the White Western male over the Blue Na'vi male, the subjugation of Neytiri and Toruk Makto - not by Tsutey or other Na'vi males - by the White Western crippled male, and the emasculation of other feminine males. Feminine nature has been used to reinforce the modern subject and the masculine identity of institutions. Keywords: avatar; center; cinej.2025.731; cinema; feminine; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; jake; journal; masculine; movie; na'vi; nature; online; pandora; people; reason; volume; world
• An Investigation of the Relationship Between Violence and Emotion Perception: Evidence from Turkish Cinema by Keleş, Semra; Mergen, Filiz (2025) - Emotional violence is considered as any attitude that negatively affects the psychological health of individuals, upsets, hurts or shocks them, causing the individual to feel under pressure and threatened while psychological violence aims to harm the victim's self-esteem, to intimidate, to make him/her feel powerless and helpless, and that he/she is under control (Güz, 2007, p. 89). Lastly, sexual violence is sexual harassment and assault against children, young people, women and other individuals, ranging from cursing and gesturing to rape (Köknel, 2000, p. 203). Keywords: cinej.2025.736; cinema; doi; emotion; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; masculinity; online; participants; perception; ratings; turkish; violence; volume; words
• Editorial by Akser, Murat (2013) - Murat Akser outlines a theory of style and performance in Canadian film based on geography, gender and genre. Abstract This issue of CINEJ deals with approaches to films from different parts of the world ranging from India and China to Italy and Canada. Keywords: akser; cinema; film; journal; wenders
• Dementia, Cognitive Narratology, and Unreliable Narration in Florian Zeller’s The Father by Srbinovska, Slavica (2025) - “Unreliable narration” thus becomes a specific genre of film narration, or a psychological drama of communication and reception. The incomplete information available to the spectator through the dialogues of Anthony and other characters, although they CINEJ Cinema Journal: Dementia, Cognitive Narratology, and Unreliable Narration in Florian Zeller’s The Father Volume 13.2 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.751 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 504 are information about the same topic, namely the daughter’s marriage, her divorce, meeting another man with whom she is in love, going to Paris, and among them the mention of the other daughter become for the spectator as confusing and intractable as this information is an integral part of Anthony’s repetitive scenes of dialogue with his daughter, with the doctor, and with the caregiver. Keywords: anthony; character; cinej.2025.751; cinema; dementia; father; film; journal; narration; narrative; narratology; online; spectator; volume; zeller
• Silent Frames of Social Realism: Exploring Economic Disparities, Urban Life, and Ethical Concerns in Pushpak Vimanam by Narayanam, Gopi Sathya Srinivas; Charyulu, Gomatam Mohana (2025) - The use of social realism in Indian movies is not a new concept as there have been records from the past showing how these movies were successfully able to highlight corruption, inequality and other societal problems. During the time of Charlie Chaplin, movies did not have sound and the actors therefore had to use other skills to make up for this drawback. Keywords: cinema; film; india; journal; life; movie; protagonist; pushpak; realism; theory; use; vimanam
• Fiction Criticizing Reality: Abbas Kiarostami and the Cracked Windshield of Cinema by Ewing, James Blake (2014) - Abstract This article argues that Abbas Kiarostami uses documentaries and fiction films to examine the distinction between reality and fiction. Both critics suggest the same idea: While CINEJ Cinema Journal: Abbas Kiarostami and the Cracked Windshield of Cinema Volume 3.1 (2013) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2013.77 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 31 Kiarostami deals in a quagmire of deceptive fiction in Close-Up, he does it in such a way that ultimately affirms cinema. Keywords: cinema; director; documentary; fiction; film; kiarostami; reality; sabzian
• The Otolith Group’s “Monuments to Dead Television.” Independent Cinema and the Migrant Experience in Europe between Television and the Museum by Ferrara, Beatrice (2014) - As Gill Henderson writes about the works of Black Audio Film Collective, for example, “they were radically different from any other independent film and video of that period” (2007, 7). “Coalition Building: Black Audio Film Collective and Transnational Postcolonialism.” Keywords: attention; black; cinej.2013.78; cinema; collective; film; group; memory; monuments; museums; new; online; otolith group; television; volume
• The Body As Cogito: A Certain Contemporary Film In The Light of Merleau-Ponty by Bezerra, Julio (2014) - The body becomes no longer a unit, but a link between bodies, between spaces and movements, so as to create virtual bodies, extensions of the body. As Bernadette Lyra (2002) alerts us, film was the first technological invention to create movement and give life to images, creating bodies without flesh. Keywords: body; cinej.2013.79; cinema; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; merleau; online; ponty; tsai; volume; world
• Down the Rabbit Hole of Reality: Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy by McMurray, Anna Maria (2011) - From Shields‟ viewpoint, everything is a little bit plagiarized, experience is always subjective, truth is questionable, and reality is never real—claims which, I argue, Kiarostami‟s film also seems to support. Kiarostami‟s films, too, often seem to place blame on the modern world. Keywords: art; copy; couple; elle; film; james; meaning; reality
• Hollywood, The American Image And The Global Film Industry by Ibbi, Andrew Ali (2014) - Bi (2012) continued by pointing out that “Hollywood movies seek to build a national image characterized by freedom, equality, prosperity and other positive aspects. Hollywood movies are key CINEJ Cinema Journal: Keywords: american; cinema; film; global; hollywood; industry; movies; online; volume; world
• Audiovisual Strategies and the Unity in Diversity Principle of the EU: A Cultural Dimensions Perspective on European and Turkish Cinema by Kara, Çağrı; Kırgız Özer, Ayça Can; Keskin, M. Hakan (2025) - Addressing this requires a cultural analysis, as European cultures are historically diverse and often distinct. Exploring Turkish and European Cultures Through Cultural Dimensions It is, in fact, not entirely accurate to compare Turkish culture (Sak, 2020) directly with European culture, as the latter is not a singular, uniform entity. Keywords: cinej cinema; cinej.2025.814; cinema; cinema journal; cinema volume; cultural; culture; dimensions; diversity; european; european cinema; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; media; online; strategies; unity; volume
• Zeki Demirkubuz as a Creator of Meaning: A Critique of the Film Hayat by Kılınç, Barış; Kılınç, Elif Pınar (2025) - His attitude toward his mother’s death; his relations with his boss and colleagues; his stance toward local tradesmen; his relationship with his girlfriend, Marie; the apparently motiveless murder he commits; and what he experiences in prison together layout, concretely, highland alienated, absurd character lives. Nearly all his films exhibit a close engagement with the texts of these two figures, whose contributions are central to CINEJ Cinema Journal: Zeki Demirkubuz as a Creator of Meaning: A Critique of the Film Hayat Volume 13.2 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.834 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 776 existential literature, which results in meaning-dense works. Keywords: absurd; camus; cinej.2025.834; cinema; demirkubuz; dostoevsky; film; god; hayat; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; kılınç; meaning; online; volume; world
• Festival Review: TIFF 2013, The Neoliberal Labyrinth of Cinema by Edener, Ege (2014) - Keywords: film festivals, TIFF New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. By “strange”, I do not necessarily mean the cultural or the social impact on the audiences; film festivals can be shelters from the hegemony of mainstream cinema, which dominates our everyday life, be it on TV, or in printed media. Keywords: canadian; cinema; film; tiff
• Pattern of the Body Image in La Maison en Petits Cubes on the Basis of Milieu and Individual Relationship by Kılınçarslan, Yasemin (2014) - The film tells that, even though this information era requires the 3D animated films to satisfy the consumers, 2D animated films have still important influence on spectators. Footprints of Traditional Japanese Pictures in the Classical Japanese Animated Cinema At the present day, it can be seen that, popular media contents have been attracted of audiences like Japanese animated cinema. Keywords: body; cinema; city; film; journal; life; man; milieu; online
• It Is a Man's World: Romantic Relief In The Hollywood Blockbuster by Kartal, Esma (2014) - Although this characteristic can be observed in various other genres, it is more evident in action films as it juxtaposes with the male-oriented themes of the genre. The term is derived from “comic relief” – a device that functions as a getaway for the audience to relax in films otherwise deemed as serious or heavy. Keywords: action; characters; female; film; hollywood; male; relief
• Editorial: Thank You to CINEJ Reviewers by Akser, Murat (2014) - Julio Bezerra views contemporary film as displaying a kind of transnational new wave that seems unique since the mid-60s. Nolwenn Anne Mingant in her article titled “‘Not A Terrorist’: The Representational Alternative of Reality TV in All-American Muslim” debates that the reality TV show All-American Muslim depicting the lives of five Muslim families of Lebanese descent in Dearborn presents the reality TV format seems particularly apt at providing a different vision of American Muslim, a vision clashing with images usually conveyed by TV news and Hollywood films. Keywords: akser; cinej; cinema; film; murat; reviewers
• Pan-American Highways: American Tourism to Mexico and 1950s Hollywood film by Fuller, Stephanie (2014) - Hollywood film Stephanie Fuller University of East Anglia, stephanie.fuller@uea.ac.uk Abstract This article examines American films from the early 1950s which feature journeys to Mexico. The early 1950s saw the production of a proliferation of American films which feature journeys to Mexico like this one. Keywords: american; border; cinej.2014.92; cinema; film; hollywood; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; mexican; mexico; new; online; press; states; tourism; travel; united; university; volume
• A Film Buff’s Paradox: The Evolution of Illusion vs. Reality by Amini, Armand (2015) - Therefore, the surprises in movies become harder to predict by those supposedly familiar with this type of film, as compared to someone who does not watch movies as much, creating a paradox similar to films that deal with illusion vs. reality. A Beautiful Mind is so breathtaking because of its usage of pure film, but Inception showed film critics that these new technologies CINEJ Cinema Journal: Armand Amini 44 Volume 4.1 (2014) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2014.93 | http://cinej.pitt.edu can be used to create new realistic worlds, instead of fake insulting mirages. Keywords: audience; film; illusion; movie; reality
• Bikes and Movies: A Brief History Of Motorcycle In Cinema by Martinez, Sandra; Sanjuán, Antonio (2014) - The history of motorcycle movies officially begins with Charles Chaplin and his Mabel at the Wheel. In the late seventies the genres mixed, and in a few years, this meant the rise and overexploitation of biker movies. Keywords: antonio; biker; cinej.2014.94; cinema; cinema journal; film; genre; history; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; martinez; motorbike; motorcycle; movies; online; sanjuán; usa; volume; years
• Recurrence: A Filmosophic Re-thinking of A Long Story/ Uzun Hikaye by Goksel Demiray, Basak (2014) - Frampton understands this encounter as a “mix of thinkings”: film’s and filmgoer’s (Frampton 2006, p. 162) 6 Therefore, a filmgoer, who has a filmosophic perspective to be able to watch and re-think film as a unique ‘being’ – “creating itself” by its own mind and way of thinking – independent from any other external effect, can be named as a filmosopher (ibid). That is the point what makes Frampton stand against the theorisation of films via human thinking coming from outside the film and see this attitude as a “dead end” in film studies (Frampton 2006, p. 31). Keywords: ali; film; frampton; mustafa; story; thinking
• Towards a Singular Cinematic Pedagogy: Gilles Deleuze and Manoel de Oliveira by Viegas, Susana (2014) - Pere Gimferrer y Manoel De Oliveira, 'La palabra hace la imagen: Conversación en torno a El principio de la incertidumbre', El Cultural, 6/03/2003: http://www.elcultural.es/version_papel/CINE/6588/Pere_Gimferrer_y_Manoel_De_Oliveira- _La_palabra_hace_la_imagen 18 Randal Johnson, 'Manoel de Oliveira and the Ethics of Representation', in Dekalog 2. Microsoft Word - CINEJ3.2.96pp34_48.docx Towards a Singular Cinematic Pedagogy: Gilles Deleuze and Manoel de Oliveira Susana Viegas Universidade Nova de Lisboa, susanarainhoviegas@gmail.com Keywords: cinema; de oliveira; deleuze; film; gilles; image; manoel; new; oliveira; philosophy; volume
• Preternatural Claims, Precarious Workers: The Content and Distribution of the Most Successfully Crowdfunded Documentary by Nichols, Dugan (2014) - Greer’s quote bespeaks a long established relationship between a strain of paranoid environmentalism and UFO culture, as aliens allegedly screen images for their abductees of the earth decimated by atomic blasts or pollution.12 This happened notably to ufology icon and best-selling author, Whitley Strieber, who uttered under hypnosis that his captors displayed “pictures of the world just blowing up” with “dark red fire in the middle of it.”13 Moreover, Sirius recycles racially fraught tropes of UFO culture, such as reflecting white ufologists’ desire to experience the Other or subject to understanding a gray race of beings they fear has challenged their racially privileged status. Keywords: cinej.2014.97; cinema; cinema journal; claims; culture; energy; film; greer; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; labor; media; new; online; post; project; sirius; ufo; volume; white; workers
• Film As Nation Building: The UAE Goes Into the Movie Business by Yunis, Alia (2014) - Through content analysis of UAE films and interviews with local filmmakers, framed through rhetoric scholar Kenneth Burke’s writing on symbolism, we look at how the UAE government wishes to be perceived abroad versus how its filmmakers—who have a co-dependent relationship with the government-- are portraying the country. ”2 Variants of these tragic peasants as pillars of the nation remain the hallmark of Egyptian cinema, UAE film, however, doesn’t fall conveniently into existing categories of national film, defined by Stephen Crofts as Third Cinema, European Model Art Cinemas, Third World and European Commercial Cinemas, Totalitarian Cinema and Regional/Ethnic Cinema.3 These categories and the theories around them were born of financial need an/or the need to break out of an existing pop cinema or Hollywood formula to explore taboo and divisive subjects, neither of which applies to UAE film. Keywords: abu; author; building; cinej.2013.98; cinema; city; dubai; emirati; film; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; life; nation; national; online; uae; uae film; volume
• Rudaali in Film Narrative: Looking Through the Feminist Lens by Das, Reetamoni; Nath, Dr Debarshi Prasad (2014) - Women film makers can deviate from this gendered use of the camera and develop their own language of the camera as Lajmi does in her Rudaali. Lindiwe Dovey writes in her article about women film makers in Africa that in the cinema of women the one-dimensional male views about women makes way for a new look of the feminine (Dovey 2011, 33-35). Keywords: cinej.2014.99; cinema; feminist; film; journal; lajmi; language; online; rudaali; sanichari; volume; women

• Technology and the Turkish Mind: Internet Animation as Counter Culture in Turkey by Akser, Murat (2014) - In the uncensored world of Turkish internet of the 1990s there were the flash animation heroes of the internet as counter culture discourse producers. The sample flash animated videos in this study reveal a time in Turkish internet that was vibrant and critical. Keywords: animation; cinej.2014.115; cinema; communication; culture; dayi; flash; http://cinej.pitt.edu; imam; internet; journal; media; new; noel; online; people; technology; turkey; use; volume
• From Past To Present A Cognitive Work On “New Turkish Cinema” by Güngör, Arif Can (2015) - All in all, every period, when putting the notion of new Turkish cinema adopted, brought forward, become representative of a hope to life by everybody as ignoring the old one. The Notion of “New Turkish cinema refers to five different phenomena in Turkey. Keywords: art; cinej cinema; cinej.2014.121; cinema; cinema journal; concept; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; new; online; past; period; present; turkey; volume; work; world; yeşilçam
• Of Genes and Germs: The Agenda of Health in Contemporary Hollywood by John, Elwin (2016) - Such bodies look flawless even when they question the humanness of the body. The virus does not hide, but rather it is in the look out for healthier bodies. Keywords: agenda; body; cinej.2015.129; cinema; health; hollywood; http://cinej.pitt.edu; human; journal; online; people; virus; volume
• Same-sex love in Muslim cultures through the lens of Hindustani Cinema by Arfeen, Ayesha (2017) - Ruth Vanita, who writes extensively on same-sex love and marriages in India, mainly deals with cultures within Hinduism and Christianity as these are the cultures she is well acquainted with .However, the book she edited with Saleem Kidwai, has certain portions dealing with same sex love within Muslim cultures. A City Between Cultures, p.128) Utilization of female sexuality in Dedh Ishqiya It can be argued that because of the patriarchal structure of our society in general and the patriarchal-like structure of marriage in Muslim households in particular or at least the fear of it among Muslim women, men seem to have had the favorable chance to lead a carefree sexual life with multiple partners at a time and also a carefree union with same sex, though religion does not permit this but society does not seem to mind. Keywords: begum; cinej.2017.147; cinema; cultures; female; http://cinej.pitt.edu; india; journal; love; lucknow; muneera; muslim; online; sex; sex love; volume; women
• Transnational Life: Where’d I Be Happy? A Research on the Films of Immigrant Directors From Turkey Living in Austria by Gürkan, Hasan (2018) - Transnational cinema has been discussed in film studies discipline over the last decades. The films directed by both of these directors focus on traditional values of Turkish culture, the reflection of these values on Austria and cover the features of transnational cinema. Keywords: austria; cinej.2017.159; cinema; cultural; cultures; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; immigrant; journal; life; migration; new; online; turkey; turkish; veysel; volume; world
• Stereotype Representation of Women in Nigerian Films by Ibbi, Andrew Ali (2018) - Amobi (2013) brings this scenario to Nigeria by stating that even after four world conferences on women, Nigerian women continue to experience marginalization in every sphere of human endeavor. It is time Nigerian filmmakers started looking the way of positive stereotype representation of Nigerian women in films, instead of continuous inundation of the market with negative stereotype representation. Keywords: cinej; cinema; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; media; online; representation; society; stereotype; stereotype representation; volume; women
• Bollywood in the Hollywood Era: Narratives of Ultra-nationalism, Terrorism and Violence by Shailo, Iqbal (2019) - Accordingly, like Hollywood movies, Indian movies also develop and maintain linkages with other global media corporations as “ Bollywood movies and film music are gradually moving out of the “South Asian” diasporic market into American or British public culture more broadly” (Punathambekar and Kavoori, 2008:8). | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2019.178 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 26 Much of the themes in Hollywood movies support American ultra-nationalism and masculinity over weakness by providing various ways to solve (geo)political uncertainty and the “very uncertain nature of America itself, through building moral geographies and making clear the lines of division between ‘us’ and ‘them’” (Power and Crampton, 2007:6). Keywords: american; bollywood; cinej.2019.178; cinema; http://cinej.pitt.edu; india; journal; movies; narratives; online; terrorism; violence; volume
• Inner and deeper: Motifs of fiction in Werner Herzog's films by Poch, Chantal (2019) - Bavarian director Werner Herzog has built an entire oeuvre regarding this problem: from the blurry lines between his fictional movies and documentaries to the recurrent inclusion of false quotes and events on his scripts, all of his films seem to add something to the same direction: the confusion of fact and fiction. Keywords: Werner Herzog; German Cinema; Motifs; Fiction; Ecstatic Truth New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: cave; cinej; cinej.2019.224; cinema; fiction; filmproduktion; films; germany; herzog; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; motifs; online; truth; volume; werner; werner herzog
• A Reading of Bhabendra Nath Saikia's Films from Feminist Lens by Dutta, Minakshi (2020) - Assamese woman also go through such process. Assamese drama, art, literature shaped an image of Assamese woman with its creation. Keywords: assamese; bhabendra; body; cinej.2020.261; cinema; class; feminist; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; nath; online; representation; saikia; society; volume; women
• Female Representation in Select Films of Frank Rajah Arase: Evidence of Male Chauvinist Tendencies in the Ghanaian Film Culture by Omoera, Osakue S.; Okwuowulu, Charles C. (2021) - Consequently, there seems to be a shift in the representation of women that reinforces Laura Mulvey’s sexual voyeuristic objectification of the feminine gender as reflected in near-nude costumes as well as sexually larded scenes that are common sights in African films, particularly those from Ghana. Keywords: Ghallywood; Feminine voyeurism; FRA; African culture; African film; Gender New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: african; arase; cinej.2021.287; cinema; female; films; fra; gender; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; online; representation; volume; women
• The Millennial Antinostalgic: Yoav in Nadav Lapid’s Synonymes by Vaso, Jora (2021) - Whereas in Israel Yoav needed the melody of France to breathe life into an environment of emptiness, forced masculine form, and silence broken by gun shots, in France, he needs the Israeli machine gun to shake the emptiness and unimaginable silence of the dead CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Millennial Antinostalgic: Yoav in Nadav Lapid’s Synonymes Volume 9.1 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.288 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 81 French living room, where once-breathing stories are now nicely packaged into vintage vinyl cases collecting dust. Indeed, little Yoav represents the uncertain fate of art, beauty, humanity in a world of ruins, where people’s adulthood has become synonymous with the death of artistic sensitivity. Keywords: cinej.2021.288; cinema; exile; france; french; http://cinej.pitt.edu; israel; journal; lapid; life; online; synonymes; volume; yoav
• Transformation of Comedy with Streaming Services: The Case of Bartu Ben by Yıldırım, Nisa (2020) - However, in mainstream cinema films or television series comedy used to be presented in forms of romance comedies or comedy-dramas having conservative narratives which guarantees the highest ticket sales or rating results. Streaming services have introduced new ways of production for television series which are similar to cinema films. Keywords: audience; bartu; ben; cinej.2020.300; cinema; comedy; doi; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; online; series; services; streaming; television; turkey; volume
• Baudrillard, Hyperreality, and the Evil in Othello and The Hateful Eight by Torkamaneh, Pouria; Poordakan, Farhad; Lalbakhsh, Pedram (2021) - Farhad Poordakan, Farhad.poordakan@uvic.ca Pedram Lalbakhsh, p.lalbakhsh@razi.ac.ir Abstract Shakespeare’s tragedies and Quentin Tarantino’s aesthetically violent films bear striking similarities in the problematization of both villainy and reality. The essay also discusses the (non-voluntaristic) crises of reality that follow, when opposing parties battle for the ultimate power. Keywords: baudrillard; cinej.2021.354; cinema; evil; http://cinej.pitt.edu; hyperreality; iago; journal; marquis; online; othello; reality; shakespeare; tarantino; volume
• Coming of Age in the Diaspora: Bollywood and the Representation of Second Generation British Indian Diaspora by Mukherjee, Utsa; Pradhan, Anil; Barn, Ravinder (2021) - Furthermore, the analysis has demonstrated that Bollywood’s cinematic history, with respect to British Indian youth, unfolds in a non-linear fashion. | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.366 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 142 Conclusion Through close intertextual readings, this article has demonstrated how Indian diasporic youth in the UK are represented in popular Bollywood films, especially in the first decades of Bollywood. Keywords: bollywood; british; british indian; cinej.2021.366; cinema; cinema journal; diaspora; diasporic; doi; family; films; generation; http://cinej.pitt.edu; indian; journal; london; online; volume
• The Language of Colours. A Semiotic Analysis of Colours and Symbolic Imagery in Francis Ford Coppola’s "Bram Stoker’s Dracula" (1992) by Bernard, Veronika (2011) - Bram Stoker‟s Dracula see: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker%E2%80%99s_Dracula; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film- dienst; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexikon_des_Internationalen_Films; http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?wert=50010&sucheNach=titel; http://www.dieterwunderlich.de/Coppola_Dracula.htm; http://www.mannbeisstfilm.de/kritik/Francis- Ford-Coppola/Bram-Stokers-Dracula/427.html; http://www.amazon.de/product- reviews/B00004RYID/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1; http://www.moviepilot.de/movies/bram-stoker-s-dracula; http://www.moviejones.de/kritiken/kritik- bram-stokers-dracula_1165.html; http://www.filmzentrale.com/rezis/bramstokersdraculag.htm; http://www.filmering.at/kritik/9556-bram-stokers-dracula-1992; http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bram_stokers_dracula/; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker%E2%80%99s_Dracula http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film-dienst http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film-dienst http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexikon_des_Internationalen_Films http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?wert=50010&sucheNach=titel http://www.dieterwunderlich.de/Coppola_Dracula.htm http://www.mannbeisstfilm.de/kritik/Francis-Ford-Coppola/Bram-Stokers-Dracula/427.html http://www.mannbeisstfilm.de/kritik/Francis-Ford-Coppola/Bram-Stokers-Dracula/427.html http://www.amazon.de/product-reviews/B00004RYID/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 http://www.amazon.de/product-reviews/B00004RYID/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 http://www.moviepilot.de/movies/bram-stoker-s-dracula http://www.moviejones.de/kritiken/kritik-bram-stokers-dracula_1165.html http://www.moviejones.de/kritiken/kritik-bram-stokers-dracula_1165.html http://www.filmzentrale.com/rezis/bramstokersdraculag.htm http://www.filmering.at/kritik/9556-bram-stokers-dracula-1992 http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bram_stokers_dracula/ CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Language of Colours Special Issue: 1 (2011) Documentary: DRACULA: The Man, The Myth, The Legend on: Bram Stoker‟s Dracula (DVD). Keywords: bernard; cinej cinema; cinej.2011.39; cinema journal; colours; dracula; harker; http://cinej.pitt.edu; illustration; issue; lucy; mina; online; red; scene
• Socio-Cultural Archetypes: Interrogating African Virginity Discourse in Tunde Kelani’s Films. by Ojemola, Adeyoola Mercy (2023) - The De-popularity of Virginity Clarifying the meaning of the words de-popularity of virginity is expedient for this study. Virginity testing was adopted to prevent children born out of wedlock, bearing the hope of restoring the gradually fading cultural values of maintaining virginity before marriage for the pride, modesty, self-respect, virtue, and value it provides (Louise, 2006; Bruce, 2004; Leclerc-Madlala and Leclerc-Madlala, 2003). Keywords: awero; cinej.2023.405; cinema; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; kelani; online; tunde; virginity; volume
• The Relation of Female Characters to Nature in the Turkish Series Wounded Love (2016–2018): Ecofeminist Approaches by Agiş, Fazıla Derya (2022) - In the series, Greek women always help Turkish women as singers, shop owners, friends, or neighbors. Women are associated with the environment, and in the series, Turkish women are tortured by the sea, used as a symbol of innocence. Keywords: cinej.2022.410; cinema; female; greek; hilal; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; love; nature; online; series; turkey; volume; war; women
• Demystifying the state of Minorities in Contemporary India: Reading Amit Masurkar's Sherni (The Tigress) from the Vantage Point of Marginality by Sengupta, Purbali (2023) - Drawing from this collaboration of minority races and developing on its potential for resistance, the following section explores the dynamics of Race, Exclusion and Belonging in a Contemporary India, to provide that critical reading of the film which can be considered equivalently apt and topical for its present-day relevance. The Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party has diligently subscribed to Hindu fundamentalist (Hindutva) principles from the very germination of its power, which resonates in its majoritarian politics of appropriating historical discourses, manufacturing of counterfeit myths of origin to persecution of religious minorities like Muslims, Christians or Dalits, and this in its turn has become a permanent feature of Indian democracy. Keywords: cinej.2023.440; cinema; contemporary; hindu; http://cinej.pitt.edu; india; journal; minorities; nature; online; reading; sherni; state; tigress; vidya; volume
• Deceptive Retrospective Narrative Strategy and Synchronistic Prerequisite: Case Study on The Design of Impossible Puzzles by Yang, Yu (2023) - Bordwell’s narrative research is predicated on the premise that the strategy of film narrative is deterministic. For example, Kristin Thompson (1999) demonstrated that complex narrative films from the 1990s did not deviate from the classical paradigm. Keywords: cinej.2023.475; cinema; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; luo; meaning; narrative; online; puzzle; puzzle films; strategy; volume
• Zombie-Themes Outbreak Films and World War Z (2013) by Ekinci, Barış Tolga (2022) - Within this framework, zombie films and the theme of the outbreak is to be discussed in this study. Zombie films are constantly repeated in the outbreak films as one of the main indicators of the ideological shift which takes place in our day. Keywords: cinej.2022.499; cinema; cinema journal; example; fact; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; matter; online; outbreak; outbreak films; people; virus; volume; war z; world; world war; zombie; zombie films
• Politicizing the superhero genre: The case of Watchmen (HBO, 2019) by Stefanopoulou, Evdokia (2022) - Keywords: superhero genre; Watchmen; racial violence; Tulsa race massacre; political television This journal is published by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press. For example, Emily VanDerWerff (2020) commended on how the show is an “eerie reflection of our own history — both because Watchmen takes place in an alternate timeline version of our reality and because it’s touching on darker parts of the American narrative that are rarely presented within the confines of superhero stories.” Keywords: black; cinej.2022.509; cinema; doi; genre; hbo; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; online; series; superhero; volume; watchmen; white
• Minik Serçe as a Contrary Example Among the Singer Films in Turkish Cinema by Barlan, Yasemin (2022) - Keywords: film musicals; singer films; arabesk; yeşilçam New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Singer films. Keywords: adnan; cinej.2022.522; cinema; doi; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; minik; online; serçe; singer; volume; yeşilçam
• Representation of Teachers in Turkish Cinema Between 1940 and 1980 by Acaralp, Murat Cem; Kasap, Fevzi; Çelik, Mustafa Ufuk (2023) - Teacher Representation In the history of Turkish cinema, Teacher has been the main character or side character of many movies. From article studies; Aysun Akıncı Yüksel's “School, Teacher and Student Representations in Cinema Films in Turkey as a Cultural Product” (2015), Emrullah Akcan and Soner Polat's “The Image of the Teacher in Turkish Films on Education: A Historical View of the Image of the Teacher” (2016), Şükrü Sim and Semih Göncü's “Examination of Teacher Representation in Turkish Cinema: A Comparative Analysis of Vurun Kahpeye and Exile”, Erdoğan Efendioğlu's “The Image of Teacher in Turkish Cinema” (2013) has been included in the literature as a thesis. Keywords: anatolia; cinej cinema; cinej.2023.566; cinema; cinema journal; education; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; movie; online; period; representation; school; society; teacher; teaching; volume
• Short History of Industrialization: A Cinematographic Approach by Yüksel, Hasan (2023) - CINEJ Cinema Journal: Hasan Yüksel Volume 11.2 (2023) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2023.574 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 340 Industry 2.0 (Power of Electricity) This scientific and human oriented approach opened a new page, established an original culture upon the power of knowledge, logic, rationale, and science (for CINEJ Cinema Journal: Short History of Industrialization: A Cinematographic Approach Volume 11.2 (2023) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2023.574 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 337 further information on Renaissance, see also Ferguson, 1948; Copenhaver, 1992; Levine, 2018: 21-36; Haar, 2006: 20-37; Quinn, 1992: 352-359). Keywords: approach; approach volume; case; cinej; cinej cinema; cinej.2023.574; cinema; cinema journal; hasan; history; http://cinej.pitt.edu; https://www.youtube.com/; industrialization; industry; journal; mind; movie; new; oliver; online; production; volume; way; william; work; yüksel; yüksel volume
• The Embodiment of the Post-human Child in Malayalam Films by Kurian, Rona Reesa; Preeti Navaneeth (2023) - Sharma (2021) claims that the inadequacies of children’s films in India also lead to the anomaly of the construction of childhood in media and further adds that power dynamics between children and adults reflect significantly on the films through child characters. As Kehily (2015) points out, childhood is dubbed as “an apprenticeship that can be charted through stages relating to age, physical development, and cognitive ability [and the] progression from child to adult involves children in a developmental process wherein they embark upon a path to rational subjectivity” (p. 6) and hence children are vulnerable, and their actions/choices gain value through adult intervention. Keywords: adult; child; childhood; children; cinej; cinema; films; gender; http://cinej.pitt.edu; human; journal; keshu; malayalam; malayalam films; online; post; volume
• From Home to Destitution: Deprived and Ignored Children in Yusuf ile Kenan (1979) and Masumiyet (1997) by Güven, Zühre Canay (2024) - This article sets out to analyse the realistic depictions of child image focusing on displacement and destitute. First, I will present the odyssey of child image during the course of Turkish cinema. Keywords: child; children; cinej; cinej cinema; cinej.2024.592; cinema; cinema journal; home; http://cinej.pitt.edu; ile kenan; journal; kenan; masumiyet; online; volume; yusuf; yusuf ile; çilem
• Mary Shelley Biopic (2017): A filmic discourse analysis by Araujo, Thanya; Silva, Lívia Fernanda (2024) - Abstract This work analyzes the discourses that compound Mary Shelley biopic (2017), concerning male domination and female resistance. Keywords: Mary Shelley biopic; Filmic analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Male domination; Female resistance New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: analysis; biopic; cinej.2024.618; cinema; discourse; figure; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; mary; mary shelley; online; shelley; volume
• Social Construct of Nollywood Films and Ethnocentrism in Southern Nigeria by Vitalis, Perpetua Ogechi; Amadi, Richard N.; Harcourt Whyte, Dike (2024) - Nollywood films are produced along such ethnic, cultural, and linguistic lines that it is difficult to talk about the industry as truly representative of a coherent and unified Nigerian national culture, just as Nigeria does not constitute a coherent nation due to its heterogeneous and disparate cultures (McCain, 2022). | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2024.632 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 157 Despite Port Harcourt's lack of a film industry, the majority of Nollywood films have been filmed in the Nigerian megacities of Lagos, Asaba, Enugu, and Port Harcourt. Keywords: cinej; cinej.2024.632; cinema; cinema journal; culture; ethnocentrism; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; media; nigeria; nollywood; online; social; southern; volume
• The Relationship Between the Behavior Change Created in the Audience By Disaster Scenarios in Cinema Cities During the Covid-19 Period and the Pandemic by Acaralp, Murat Cem (2025) - According to the research conducted by (Korkmaz, 2022) by selecting the Netflix platform, which has 222 million subscribers around the world, as a sample according to February 2022 data, the interest in post-apocalyptic films has increased steadily in 2020 and 2021, respectively, starting from 2019, the beginning of the pandemic process was observed to follow the course. After this important experimental research, it was seen that cinema films could be used as educational and therapeutic tools in a versatile way, and studies were started in this direction. Keywords: audience; behavior; change; cinej.2025.637; cinema; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; movies; online; pandemic; people; process; relationship; volume
• Fiction Movies as a Means of Culinary Heritage’s Safeguarding and Research Referencing: Cases of Couscous Illustration in Tunisian Cinema by Ridene, Faten (2024) - Kosksi Muâffin Linnafis (Couscous - rotten- for postpartum)xx Kosksi Bechcherkaou (Couscous with Smelt)xxi Kosksi Belham Legaoud (Couscous with Calf Meat)xxii Masfoof Bezzabib (with Raisins/Dried Grapes) Table 2: Classification of couscous dishes according to the ingredients used to cook them CINEJ Cinema Journal: Fiction Movies as a Means of Culinary Heritage’s Safeguarding and Research Referencing Volume 12.2 (2024) The representation of Couscous festive dish in Halfaouine (film summarised in the previous paragraph) Keywords: bel; cinej.2024.647; cinema; cinema journal; cooking; culinary; director; dish; family; faten; fiction; grains; heritage; http://cinej.pitt.edu; identity; journal; kosksi; means; movies; online; research; ridene; safeguarding; tunisia; volume; women
• Reading the Representations of Children and Childhood(s) in Malayalam Films by Kurian, Rona Reesa; Navaneeth, Preeti (2025) - Barring a few noteworthy films, child characters have limited purpose and scope in Malayalam films. Likewise, in Malayalam films, child characters primarily engage in performing certain normative functions. Keywords: adult; characters; child; childhood; children; cinej.2025.655 |; cinema; cinema journal; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; indian; journal; kurian; malayalam; malayalam cinema; malayalam films; navaneeth; online; preeti; reesa; representations; rona; volume
• Infrahumanization and Dehumanization of Women in Turkish Comedy Films as an Element of Comedy by Kaymaz Mert, Melek; Türedi, Hümeyra (2025) - | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.716 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 373 Infrahumanization and Dehumanization of Women in Turkish Comedy Films as an Element of Comedy Melek Kaymaz Mert Hümeyra Türedi Introduction In cinema, the perspective on women has been masculine based on social perceptions. Studies by Tan (2012), Öztürk (2016), and Öz and Secen (2019) have shown that the CINEJ Cinema Journal: Infrahumanization and Dehumanization of Women in Turkish Comedy Films as an Element of Comedy Volume 13.1 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.716 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 375 voyeuristic gaze on women in these films constituted a cinematic phenomenon. Keywords: cinej.2025.716; cinema; cinema journal; comedy; comedy films; comedy volume; dehumanization; doi; emotions; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; infrahumanization; journal; like; mert; movie; online; volume; women; ömer
• Revisiting History in Yeşilçam Cinema: An Analysis on Yeşilçam Heroes; Karaoğlan, Malkoçoğlu, Kara Murat and Battal Gazi by Serter, Sırrı Serhat (2025) - Although, it is possible to say that Kara Murad (Murad the Black), who has a very important place in historical Turkish films, might be Murad Bey of Malkoçoğulları. In this context, the claim that historical films are not accurate as historical novel is false. Keywords: battal; bey; cinej cinema; cinej.2025.718; cinema; cinema journal; cinema volume; films; gazi; history; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; kara; karaoğlan; malkoçoğlu; murat; online; volume
• Queer Cinema and Melodrama: A Perspective from Queer Directors by Yılmaz, Esra; Tanyel Başar, Çiğdem (2025) - However, in queer melodramas, these binaries often dissolve, giving way to ambivalence, ambiguity, and uncertainty. First, melodrama explores queer identity through excess, as seen in Fassbinder’s in a Year of 13 Moons, where Elvira’s suffering reveals the impossibility of recognition outside normative performativity (Butler, 1990/2014). Keywords: cinej.2025.744; cinema; cinema journal; directors; fassbinder; haynes; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; melodrama; online; perspective; queer; queer cinema; volume; ünal
• Representations of Gothic and Spectral Identities in the Global South: A Study of Manichitrathazhu and its Adaptations by Subhash, Sethulakshmi; S, Rukmini (2025) - In the context of Gothic literatures, global and regional representations of Gothic narratives thus become imperative in understanding the collective apprehensions and fears of society. In the contemporary era, when Gothic narratives emerge from post- colonial nations, there is the presence of something that was repressed in the past, likely during the colonial times. Keywords: adaptations; cinej; cinej cinema; cinej.2025.755; cinema journal; global; gothic; http://cinej.pitt.edu; indian; journal; language; manichitrathazhu; movie; online; south; study; volume
• Evaluating Turkish Comedy Cinema From the Perspective of a Female Audience by Karadaş Toktaş, Nergiz (2025) - The findings show that female audiences' preferences, perceptions and evaluations of comedy films differ significantly according to demographic variables such as age, education and income level. Keywords: Turkish cinema; comedy films; female audience; humor perception; Kruskal-Wallis Test New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: audience; cinej.2025.759; cinema; comedy; comedy cinema; films; http://cinej.pitt.edu; humor; journal; media; online; perspective; studies; viewers; volume
• Symbolic Metaphors of Film Epidemic Narratives: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Foreign Epidemic Disaster Films by Zhu, Yankun; Cheung, Ming (2025) - In this regard, we conduct a comparative study to explore the similarities and differences between the symbolic metaphors of Chinese epidemic disaster films and those of Europe, Japan, South Korea, and the US. Chinese epidemic disaster films, with the exception of a few such as Fall of Ming (2013, directed by Jing Wang) and The Revenge of Plant (2018, directed by Huang Huang), are less concerned with the source of infectious diseases, and most of the relevant ideograms are missing. Keywords: chinese; cinej; cinej cinema; cinej.2025.764; cinema; cinema journal; disaster films; epidemic; epidemic disaster; epidemic narratives; figure; film epidemic; flu; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; metaphors; online; study; symbols; virus; volume
• The Aesthetics of Imperfection: A Theoretical Evaluation of the Meaning Layers of Glitch Aesthetics in Communication Design and Cinema by Akmeşe, Zuhal (2025) - Initially, digital glitches encountered in visual media were regarded as systematic errors or technical deficiencies. Similarly, festivals and online exhibitions dedicated to glitch art, such as /'fu:bar/, are also held on VR platforms, offering participants virtual spaces filled with digital glitches. Keywords: aesthetics; art; cinej; cinema; communication; design; example; glitch; glitch aesthetics; http://cinej.pitt.edu; journal; layers; meaning; new; online; volume

• Cinema on Cinema: The Kinship between Cinema Paradiso and Zıkkımın Kökü, Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak, Sinema Bir Mucizedir by Demiray, Basak (2011) - First, they are the instances of “cinema on cinema”; second, they are biographical films; third, their plots are constructed upon the rural lives of the past; fourth, they are about cinephilia. Keywords: cinema on cinema, metafilm, micro-history, cinephilia, biographical film This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Keywords: boy; cinema; films; kökü; memduh; paradiso; story; toto; turkey; zıkkımın
• Review of Japanese Horror Films and the Their American Remakes by Harmes, Marcus (2014) - Although Wee acknowledges that since the 1990s both American and Japanese horrors have followed numerous trajectories, including torture and slasher horrors, her focus in this collection is on supernatural and/or ghost horrors that originate as Japanese films but have prompted the creation of palimpsests by American film makers, or else by Japanese film makes lured across to Hollywood. Marcus.harmes@usq.edu.au Abstract Valerie Wee’s monograph on American remakes of Japanese supernatural horror films is a contribution to Routledge’s Advances in Film Studies series and examines a cluster of films made in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Keywords: american; films; horror
• Bicycles, Airplanes and Peter Pans: Flying Scenes in Steven Spielberg's Films by Audissino, Emilio (2014) - The metaphor of flight in the whole cinema of Steven Spielberg has this meaning too: to hover and glide in the air, zooming and drifting to one's heart content like Peter Pan.”33 REFERENCES Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm, eds., Steven Spielberg Interviews (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000). 12) Spielberg quoted in Franco La Polla, Maria Teresa Cavina, eds., Spielberg su Spielberg (Turin: Lindau, 1995), 141, my translation. 13) Spielberg quoted in Friedman, Notbohm, Steven Spielberg Interviews, 152. 14) Keywords: cinej.2014.111; cinema; films; flight; flying; journal; online; pan; peter; spielberg; steven; steven spielberg; volume
• Violence, Oppression, and Double Standards in Three Colombian Films by Meade, Melissa R. (2011) - He cannot even understand El Rey‟s simple name, and seems to be delighted when El Rey calls himself “Peter King,” a literal translation of the name “Pedro Rey.” The films Confesión a Laura (Confessing to Laura, Jaime Osorio, 1991), La Primera Noche (The First Night, Luis Alberto Restrepo, 2003) and El Rey (The King, José Antonio Dorado, 2004) each highlight the characters’ struggles in the Colombian socio-political landscape. Keywords: films; josefina; laura; oppression; rey; santiago; spectator; toño; violence
• Sleaze, Slur... and the Search for a Sanitized Identity: Bhojpuri Media at a Crossroads by Shrivastava, Madhusri (2016) - Pencil slim, size zero heroines were best suited to those with more ‘global’ exposure; desi (native) audiences preferred the likes of Rambha (a curvaceous South Indian beauty who is equally popular in Bhojpuri films e.g. Banke Bihari MLA-2007; Ram Balram-2007). Possibly, the attempt was to win back youth who were turning away from Bhojpuri films to the technically slicker Bollywood productions. Keywords: bhojpuri; bhojpuri cinema; bhojpuri films; bhojpuri media; bihar; cinej cinema; cinej.2015.130 |; cinema; cinema journal; culture; films; hindi; identity; industry; journal; migrants; online; research; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Editorial by Bayrak, Bengisu (2016) - bengisu.bayrak@nisantasi.edu.tr Abstract This issue of CINEJ focuses on a varity of topics: Coming of age Irish Cinema, homosexuality and honor killing, spatial presentations in Pleasantville, pot-conflict Latin-American cinema, genre and style variety in Bresson films, changing consumption conventions during the Germany reunification, hybrid bodies and health concept in Hollywood films, Bhojpuri culture industry (Mumbai). ‘Between genres and styles in the films of Robert Bresson’ by Luíza Beatriz Alvim analyzes certain sequences of Bresson films and claims that two of his films (‘A gentle woman’, and ‘Four nights of a dreamer’) includes extracts of different genres such as libertine comedy, and Shakespearean tragedy. Keywords: cinema; films; journal
• A Quantitative Approach to Variables Affecting Production of Short Films in Turkey by Akman, Vedat (2011) - Introduction In Turkey, between years 2009 and 2010 alone, 1727 short films of which 433 were documentary, 89 animation, 79 experimental and 1126 fiction which participated in short film festivals or competitions around the country 1 . Abstract This study aims to explore the influence of various variables affecting the production of migration themed short films in Turkey. Keywords: cinema; films; percent; theme; total; turkey; university
• Screening the Urban: An Analysis of the Urban Life and Subjectivities in the Assamese Films of Bhabendra Nath Saikia and Jahnu Barua by Dutta, Minakshi (2016) - Cinema had a complex and complicated relationship with urban life and subjectivity. It is difficult to define urbanity or urban life with a particular definition. Keywords: cinema; city; films; life; saikia; society; space; subjectivity; urbanity; village
• Review of Christophe Honore by Flinn, Margaret C. (2016) - The extended interview (carried out on two separate dates) included in the book is of great interest and gives the reader direct access to Honoré’s strong voice and own viewpoint about his body of work and position in French cinema culture, both in terms of his relationship to French film history (particularly the New Wave) and vis-à-vis the present day industry. Review of Christophe Honoré Margaret C. Flinn, flinn.62@osu.edu Book Review Gerstner, David A. and Julien Nahmias, Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction. Keywords: cinema; films; honoré
• Changing Landscape of Moral Registers and Urban Pathology in ‘Bombay’ Cinema: Decline of Biological Family and Birth of the Individual through Awara (1951), Deewar (1951), (1975) and Satya (1998) by Kumar, Akshaya (2011) - While the tapori figure provided a counterpoint to the mainstream star, this residual city rendered an alternative star persona to the official images of Bombay city. When the protagonist of Satya enters Bombay through VT station without any past whatsoever or even a memory-trap to be invoked repeatedly, his journey through the Bombay underworld narrates a “politics of urban space” (151), one of the many stories of Bombay city itself. Keywords: bombay; cinema; city; deewar; family; figure; films; gangster; memory; past; satya; star
• The Black Tent (1956) and Bengazi (1955): The Image of Arabs in Two post-Empire Journeys into the Deserts of Libya by Voeltz, Richard Andrew (2018) - The Second Category, British films about contemporary colonial wars include such films as Safari (1956) dealing with the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya or The Planter’s Wife (1952) which was set during the postwar communist insurgency in Malaya. This disclaimer concedes that some viewers might…see The Black Tent as a war film, and some of the suggested promotional activities were consistent with those adopted for other 1950s British films associated with the genre. Keywords: arabs; bengazi; british; cinema; desert; empire; films; gilmore; journal; libya; new; online; post; richard; tent; volume; war
• “Youtuber Movies” From New Media to the Cinema by Ekinci, Barış Tolga (2020) - However, what important is that there is not a certain consensus over how film genres can be defined, what functions they perform, and how certain genres emerge (Abisel 1995, p. 21). Figure 3: Kapalak Kızı (2018) All three types of YouTuber movies have links to recurrent similar structures, common business relations, and traditional film genres. Keywords: cinema; culture; films; genre; industry; mainstream; media; movies; new; online; youtube
• Emerging Discourses, Changing Perspectives: Iraq in Oscar Documentary Films by Ashraf, Abida (2020) - Documentary film is also considered as a news genre therefore, peace journalism model is applicable on documentary films. Hence, documentary films can be a viable option for promoting peace journalism. Keywords: cinema; country; documentary; films; iraq; journal; journalism; online; peace; people; volume
• Review of The Supernatural Sublime: The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain by Skelton, Shannon (2020) - This is accomplished through case studies and close readings of selected films through theoretical and generic positions. With a focus on filmic iterations that reflect cultural concerns and anxieties spanning from the 1960s to the present, The Supernatural Sublime – an entry in the New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies series, is a thorough and eloquent examination of films that have eluded many surveys of Spanish language cinema. Keywords: cinema; films; sublime
• Portrayal of Women in Contemporary Nollywood Films: Isoken and King of Boys in Focus by Osakpolor, Emwinromwankhoe (2021) - Representations of Nigerian women in Nollywood film. Keywords: Portrayal; women; Nollywood; Nollywood films; Isoken; King of Boys New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: boys; cinema; films; isoken; journal; king; nollywood; online; portrayal; volume; women
• The reception of Cameroon Films and home videos in student residential areas: the case of Bambili – Cameroon by Animbom Ngong, Paul (2021) - This is considered as a CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Reception of Cameroon Films and Home videos Volume 9.1 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.357 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 373 change in film reception because film audiences in Cameroon now watch films on devices other than the theatres. Despite the unavailability of Cameroon films to the audience, some still strive to watch the few that are released to the market. Keywords: 10.5195; cameroon; doi; films; journal; online; reception; volume
• Disgraced of the West, Deserted of the East: Men in the Films Shame and Issız Adam (Alone) by Gökçem Akyıldız, Selen (2021) - In consideration of adult romantic attachment theory of Hazan and Shaver (1987), both male characters will be examined under the topics of adult loneliness and love, romantic incest and sex addiction to analyze the reasons and the results of the bond that both male characters cannot have built. Attachment styles and male sex addiction. Keywords: adam; alper; attachment; brandon; cinej.2021.359; cinema; films; issız; journal; online; sex; shame; volume
• Understanding masculinity in Turkey through the films of male auteur directors by Gürkan, Hasan; Yarcı, Işıl (2023) - Unlike mainstream cinema, the protagonists in these directors’ films do not demonstrate hegemonic masculinity; the supporting male characters that do demonstrate hegemonic masculinity category are not white Turks. Keywords: gender; hegemonic masculinity; auteur cinema; male directors; patriarchy New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: auteur; cinej.2023.413 |; cinema; directors; films; hegemonic; journal; male; masculinities; masculinity; men; online; power; turkey; volume; women
• Reading Bhadralok Cultural Memory, Kitsch And Culture Industry In Ritwik Ghatak’s Films by Banerjee, Sarbani (2023) - His father Suresh Chandra Ghatak was a district magistrate, poet and playwright, and his elder brother Manish Ghatak was a radical writer of his time, an English professor and an IPTA theatre activist, who also headed the Tebhaga Andolan in North Bengal. Keywords: Ritwik Ghatak; bhadralok; memory; kitsch; culture industry; film New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: bhadralok; cinej.2023.422 |; cinema; culture; doi; films; ghatak; industry; journal; kitsch; memory; online; partition; ritwik; ritwik ghatak; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Exploring Modes of Surveillance in Films by Ciccognani, Matteo (2022) - “By implementing this new form of film reflexivity, surveillance films present a world turned profilmic, which human beings need to analyze as a film in order to find new bearings” (Lefait, 2012: 225). Yet, it has been noted that “by modifying the natural reflexive system of cinema, therefore, surveillance films investigate to what extent the essence of film can be said to have been altered by the growing weight of the mediated scopic regime in daily life” (Lefait, 2012: 223). Keywords: ciccognani; cinej.2022.444 |; cinema; cinema journal; dir; films; gestures; journal; media; modes; new; online; self; social; surveillance; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Representation of India Pakistan tensions in Bollywood (2015-2020): Case study of Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Tiger Zinda Hai films by Mohammadzadeh, Mohammad (2024) - Representation of India Pakistan tensions in Bollywood (2015-2020): Case study of Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Tiger Zinda Hai films Mohammad Mohammadzadeh, Tehran University, mohammadzadehvijeh@gmail.com | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2024.580 | http://cinej.pitt.edu http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx CINEJ Cinema Journal: Representation of India Pakistan tensions in Bollywood (2015-2020) Keywords: cinema; countries; films; identity; india; india pakistan; journal; pakistan; people; relations; religion; tensions
• Breaking the Power Dynamics Behind the Scenes of Turkish Cinema: A Head-count Research by Serttaş, Aybike; Sarıkaya, Tugay (2025) - Abstract: In this research, gender representation and equity in the Turkish cinema industry are investigated through a comprehensive analysis of the top 99 films based on ticket sales, utilizing data from Box Office Turkey. Conclusion Examining gender representation behind the camera in the Turkish cinema industry reflects a familiar global pattern, where women remain relegated to stereotypical roles such as make-up and costumes despite advancements in various sectors. Keywords: cinej.2025.638 |; cinema; dynamics; films; gender; journal; online; power; volume; women; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• The City on Screen: A Methodological Approach on Cinematic City Studies by Demir, Sertaç Timur (2015) - Some cities are cities of the eye, while some have an unforgettable taste or musical harmony; whereas other cities are kept in mind through their smells. This aphorism indicates the importance of cinema in cities that are full of swamp-like visual images and messages. Keywords: cinema; city; films; london; new; online; reality; social; volume; york
• Deconstructing Japanese Romance Films through the Lens of Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware, Yūgen, and Kawaii (1990-2010) by Li, Fengmuhan (2025) - Abstract This study takes a close look at Japanese romance films made between 1990 and 2010, examining them through both traditional and modern Japanese aesthetic ideas such as Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware, Yūgen, and Kawaii. The study offers fresh insights into the cultural and artistic importance of Japanese romance films, providing a deeper understanding of their emotional impact and lasting charm. Keywords: cinema; doi; films; kawaii; love; mono; romance; sabi; wabi; yūgen
• “I hope I don’t die before my child”: The representation of autism in Turkish films by Paftalı, Emin; Tunç-Paftalı, Ayşe; Yıldız, Gizem (2025) - Looking at the studies carried out in recent years, it is possible to see the studies conducted to examine the representation of autism in films (Conn & Bhugra, 2012), to determine whether the characters with autism in the films have the autism characteristics specified in the DSM-5 criteria (Nordahl-Hansen, Tøndevold et al, 2018), whether the representations of autism in the films reflect reality by examining them with diagnostic tools (Garner et al., 2015), the representation of autism in films and how autism films are represented in different cultures (Ejaz, 2020), the advantages and disadvantages of autism representations in film and TV (Nordahl- Hansen, Oien et al., 2018), and the accuracy of the representations (Young, 2012). Films with characters with autism have been studied in cinemas of different countries (e.g., Ellis, 2010) and there are culture-specific representations, especially in remakes of autism films (Ejaz, 2020). Keywords: analysis; autism; character; child; cinema; family; films; journal; online; paftalı; representation; turkish; volume
• Defining Italian Neorealism: A Compulsory Movement by Kartal, Esma (2013) - Location shooting contributed considerably to the realistic nature of neorealist films. The actions of the characters in neorealist films are generally CINEJ Cinema Journal Defining Italian Neorealism Volume 2.2 (2013) Keywords: cinema; films; neorealist; sica; war
• Oral History Study on Erotic Cinema: Turkish Cinema from 1974 to 1980 by Kapir, Bahadir; Zengin, Ferhat (2025) - Certain cinemas would show erotic films anyway; for example, not all of them in Adana would show them,” thus emphasizing the selective character of erotic film distribution. Therefore, the study excluded the production practices of erotic films and focused on the distribution and exhibition of these films. Keywords: audience; cinej cinema; cinej.2025.752 |; cinema; cinema journal; content; erotic; films; history; influx; istanbul; male; online; period; process; projectionists; sex; study; turkish; volume; zengin; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Deconstruction of Chinese Masculinity, Adaptation of Hong Kong Gangster Films, and Political Criticism in Television Series The Knockout by Jin, Xuechun (2025) - While An Xin is struggling with detecting a case in which the suspect is Gao Qiqiang’s rival, Gao Qiqiang messages him to meet up on a rooftop and bring him useful evidence for the case in the episode 19. This is accompanied by Gao Qiqiang’s soprano theme music, which indicates that it is Gao Qiqiang dominates the space and the scene. Keywords: chinese; films; gangster; gao; gao qiqiang; hong; hong kong; knockout; kong; masculinity; online; qiqiang; television
• Review of Architecture in Cinema by Erdoğan, Ebru (2025) - Abstract This paper reviews the book Architecture in Cinema, which explores the multilayered relationship between architecture and cinema from both generic and historical perspectives, offering a critical framework for rethinking the role of architecture within cinematic narratives. This paper reviews the book Architecture in Cinema, which explores the multilayered relationship between architecture and cinema from both generic and historical perspectives, offering a critical framework for rethinking the role of architecture within cinematic narratives. Keywords: architecture; cinej.2025.783; cinema; films; journal; online; space; volume
• Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV Genre by Lusvarghi, Luiza (2014) - In the recent past, so-called B movies, for example, included police film noir, and as is commonly known, within post-modernity, there is a certain renewal of the kitsch aesthetic, of police noir films and even of the classic horror and gothic, not necessarily applied to works of lesser artistic value. The soundtracks of foreign productions were recorded, but Brazilian films were sang and played live. Keywords: american; brazilian; cinej.2013.83 |; cinema; cop; crime; films; genre; law; online; police; series; television; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Review of Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women by Özcan, Sinem Yankı (2025) - Exposing vulnerability: Self-mediation in Scandinavian films by women. The analysis is at its sharpest when it ties film form—duration, framing, repetition—to questions of consent, motivation, and the temporal structure of family life. Keywords: dancus; films; scandinavian; self; vulnerability; women

• Zippo Marx by Bright, Robin Aaron (2017) - As Satanists are male brainers and don`t want humans, penisless women `go to Hel`, because the representative futanarian woman, Hel, is `heaven on Earth` for women. The meaning of the Norse myth is lost to the Earth`s religions, because penisless women are `dead`, whereas the more commonly held belief is those who don`t live are dead, although Jesus` teaching is of `eternal life`, which is more in keeping with the notion that ̀ woman`s seed` is humanity`s and penisless women are the human ̀ dead` in ephemeral slavery to a host womb parasite`s sinful parasitoid nature breeding itself to devour women as the human species. Keywords: futanarian; jews; marx; online; seed; species; woman`s; woman`s seed; women
• Re-Organizing Cultural Values: Vers le Sud by Laurent Cantet by Michelmann, Judith (2011) - | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2011.19 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 150 Within Cantet's movie the Macoutes appear only once in a scene where the male protagonist Legba is playing football with his pals. Only another minor tries to help the young vendor but is held off by Legba not to cause any problems. Keywords: brenda; cantet; ellen; friend; haiti; legba; money; movie; sex; sud; sue; tourists; values; vers; women
• Reclaiming Subjectivities: A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Perspective on Item Songs in Contemporary Indian Cinema by Shah, Syed Zulkifil Haider; Cory, Elijah (2019) - Keywords: Item songs, male gaze, Bollywood, Psychoanalytic Feminism, feminine subjectivities New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Item songs, in Bollywood movies, refer to songs that ‘are almost exclusively non-situational songs… with lavish and large-scale picturizations that often play an extra rather than pivotal role in the narrative’1. Keywords: cinej.2019.217; cinema; item; journal; male; online; print; songs; volume; women
• Halit Refig's I Lost My Heart to a Turk: Woman, Islam and Modernity in Turkish Cinema by Akser, Murat (2018) - Unlike their western counterparts, Turkish women lacked the economic power to achieve any independent action against the patriarchal system. She enjoys her body and feels happy to do hard house chores with other Turkish women. Keywords: akser; cinej.2018.223; cinema; eva; halit; heart; identity; islam; journal; online; refiğ; turkish; volume; women
• Performing Heteronormativity: The Discourse of the College Hook up Culture and Sexuality by Toprak, Ziya (2020) - The primary concern for Butler is to answer the question of “what happens to the subject and to stability of gender categories when epistemic regime of presumptive heterosexuality is unmasked as that which produces and reifies these ostensible categories of ontology” (p, viii). Following Foucault’s genealogy, Butler, instead of seeking essences that make up the gender categories, seeks to decenter gender categories and compulsory heterosexuality by shaking their discursive foundations. Keywords: college; culture; discourse; documentary; gender; hook; journal; online; women
• Changemakers: Twenty Women Transforming Bollywood Behind the Scenes by Mittal, Diksha (2019) - It reflects on the struggles of women who wanted to make a mark in behind the scenes work in Bollywood which was dominated by men. The variety of women include the make-up artists, scriptwriters, stylists, film journalists, editors, directors, and choreographers some of whom have emerged to be well-known figures in television and cinema. Keywords: bollywood; changemakers; women
• Othering New Women: A Multimodal Approach to The Hymn of Death by Park, Morgan Mok-Won (2022) - It can be observed that Korean modern women were CINEJ Cinema Journal: Park Morgan Mok-Won Volume 11.1 (2023) This small group of young women were called 'new women.' Keywords: cinej.2023.481; death; deok; doi; family; hymn; jin; journal; korean; multimodal; new; online; sim; volume; women
• Identity, Cultural Representation and Feminism in the Movie Head-On by Berchtel, Sandra (2011) - Do you want to marry me?” 1 These questions asked by Sibel (Sibel Kekilli), the main character of the movie Head-on (2004), are the beginning of a conversation between her and Cahit Tomruk (Birol Ünel). But it demonstrates on the other hand, that not only Turkish women are treated badly by men. Keywords: cahit; cinema; head; issue; movie; power; sibel; women

• Editorial by Akser, Murat (2014) - Stefanie Muller examines American films from the early 1950s which feature journeys to Mexico. Through their journeys to and across the border, American films call the wider relationship between the US and Mexico into question as national identities are constructed through travel, landscape and touristic encounters. Keywords: cinej; cinema
• Wild Pear Trees, Patrimonial Legacies: Father-Son Relationship in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's The Wild Pear Tree by Liktor, Coşkun (2020) - In one memorable scene, grandfather, father and son, who have teamed up to remove a huge boulder from the bottom of the well, are framed in a three shot which shows them in the act of hauling a rope with all their might as if they are participating in some strange, patrimonial ritual. In truth, Freud cultivated the idea of the strong, castrating father despite the fact that the real fathers he encountered in his clinical practice were, more often than not, weak and ineffectual figures. Keywords: bilge; ceylan; cinej; cinej.2020.233; cinema; father; idris; journal; online; pear; pear tree; sinan; son; volume
• ‘Everything Must Go’: Joker as a Banner for Postmodernism by Bezerra, Valdir da Silva; Rathbun, Justin (2025) - In a fictional Gotham, where Arthur Fleck works as a clown, Joker demonstrates the slow descent into madness of a man neglected by society. The Joker movie highlights that the society in which Arthur Fleck lived was flawed, thus necessitating a radical CINEJ Cinema Journal: Valdir da Silva Bezerra, Justin Rathbun Volume 13.2 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.654 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 225 change. Keywords: arthur; cinej; cinema; fleck; joker; journal; movie; online; postmodernism; volume
• ‘Not A Terrorist’: The Representational Alternative of Reality TV in All-American Muslim by Mingant, Nolwenn Anne (2014) - 57 Jaweed Kaleem, ‘‘Muslim Reality Show, ‘All-American Muslim,’ To Premier on TLC,’’ The Huffington Post, October 21, 2011, accessed May 2, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/21/muslim-reality- show-all-american-muslim_n_1024101.html 58 CINEJ ‘Not A Terrorist’: The Representational Alternative of Reality TV in All-American Muslim Nolwenn Anne Mingant University Paris 3-sorbonne nouvelle, nmingant@univ-paris3.fr Keywords: american; arab; cainkar; cinej; cinema; episode; journal; media; muslim; online; reality; reality tv; series; volume
• The Role Of The Refugee And The Impact Of Fragmented Identities In Diasporic Filmmakers. A Review Of Dogville By Lars von Trier by Marino, Sara (2014) - The main purpose is to understand how identity is described and performed through the allegory of Grace and the image of the refugee, and the role homelessness and displacement play both for the filmmakers and the content of diasporic films. By considering creativity as a social practice, the author demonstrates that the films are in dialogue not only with the home and host societies but also with audiences, whose desires and fears are often narrated in diasporic films. Keywords: cinej; cinej.2013.84; cinema; diasporic; dogville; filmmakers; grace; identities; journal; naficy; online; volume

• Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Ergin Akdas, Aycin (2019) - Napier also states one of the main characteristics of Miyazaki movies, that could name as his signature, as using children as the lead characters of the story. Since nature and supernatural forces are the themes of most of Miyazaki movies, using CINEJ Cinema Journal: Miyazaki:A Life in Art Volume 7.2 (2019) Keywords: art; life; miyazaki; napier

• Pueblos Silenciosos/Silent Comunities: Within the Grain, Against the Grain by Karayalçın, Özge (2016) - Born in East L.A. movie is about a mechanic called Rudy and he is a comfortable man whose only plan for the weekend is drinking with his friends and playing his guitar. In a way, as Moses did, Rudy shouldered the injustice and enslavement of his fellow countrymen in order to free them. Keywords: american; chicano; grain; mexican; movie; rudy; states
• Aestheticizing the Downfall of Industrial Capitalism: Jim Jarmusch’s Tale of Intellectual Vampires in Zombies’ World by Muratoğlu Pehlivan, Bahar; Atalay, Gül Esra (2018) - In the light of these points of views, and keeping in mind that Adam preferred to live in this city, a theoretical approach to the discourse of the film leads us to ecosocialism, which criticizes industrial capitalism in a very similar way. While Adam shows Eve the city he lives, Detroit, we see abandoned factories, as the symbol of collapse of industrial capitalism. Keywords: adam; capitalism; detroit; doi; jarmusch; journal; movie; nature; vampires
• Cinematic Orientalism: Bab el Oued City & The Time that Remains by Yücel, Volkan; Toprak, Ziya (2018) - Bab el Oued City (Merzak Allouache, 1994) displays an intense case where fundamentalism, poverty, oppression, and a materialist culture intertwined. Gender The women, oppressed and abused by men, in Bab-el Oued City are mostly in the background in the film. Keywords: bab; city; el oued; movie; oued; sense; time
• Shattered Identity of Immigrant Artist and Creation of Art in a Hybridized Space: The Case Study of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by Shabrang, Hoda (2020) - Each artist creation is based on the identities which he considers for himself; and represents some signs which come from identity sign system of the artist. For assimilation, she uses from western movie signs like Arash who is the resemblance of James Dean but she mingles them with Iranian Film Farsi aspects like the characters of pimp and prostitute. Keywords: artist; culture; identity; immigrant; iranian; movie; sign
• Evaluation of Neurocinema as An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Science by Naser Moghadasi, Abdorreza (2020) - Neurocinema will certainly add to its richness by exploring different aspects of cinema as well as analyzing various movies. Undoubtedly, although it is very significant to investigate how such movies approach the mental disorders, these issues are merely a by-product of neurocinema. Keywords: audience; brain; cinema; journal; motion; movie; neurocinema; online; volume
• Nostalgia for the Light: A ‘Documemory’ and The Conflict between History and Memory by Durak, Didem (2013) - CINEJ Cinema Journal Nostalgia for the Light Volume 2.2 (2013) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2013.71 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 139 Guzmán wants to put an end to the cultural amnesia with the help of this movie but he knows that it is just the beginning and this is just a movie. Guzmán also uses repetition of images to emphasize his point that life is cycle so is history. Keywords: desert; guzmán; images; light; memory; movie; nostalgia; past; present; time

• The Relation between Hollywood and the New Threat Perception of the USA after the End of the Cold War from the Perspective of Postmodernism by Deger, Derya (2011) - In his presidential terms Clinton handled Middle East policy on the issues such as controlling the oil springs in this region, carrying the oil to the world market, reducing the effects of Radical Islam, and depriving the countries in the Middle East region from WMD. Hollywood Films Reflecting Middle East Policy between 1993 and 2008, Unpublished MA Thesis, Sakarya University, Institute of Social Sciences. Keywords: cinema; cold; east; hollywood; middle; new; policy; postmodernism; states; usa; war; world
• Review of An Orthodox Monk Watching Films by Buteanu, Ioan (2022) - CINEJ Cinema Journal: Ioan Buteanu Volume 10.1 (2022) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2022.423 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 344 Cinematography deserves respect because it is at the age of full maturity and it has become an industry that concentrates huge resources and competencies (Cornea 93). Microsoft Word - 325.docx Review of An Orthodox Monk Watching Films Ioan Buteanu, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, ibuteanu@yahoo.com Book Review The text reviews the book of Daniel Cornea: Keywords: cinema; cornea; culture; world

• Audience Reactions to the Different Aspects of Nollywood Movies by Onuzulike, Uchenna (2016) - None of the previous studies has specifically examined how Nollywood audiences perceive different aspects of Nollywood movies. Findings from the second research question, which offered insight about disliked aspects of Nollywood movies in terms of repetition of storylines raised by Nigerians in Nigeria, are consistent with Esan’s (2008) articulation that Nollywood audiences recognize the same inefficiency, including poor production and, of course, repetition of the themes; yet Nollywood audiences still support the movie industry. Keywords: africa; aspects; audience; journal; movies; nigeria; nigerians; nollywood; quality
• I’ll be back? The Deconstruction of the 1980s and the 1990s Hard Body Movies by Machlev, Moshe (2021) - But it seems that more recent movies, of some of those same actors, portray a different image than the one that they portrayed in those 1980s and 1990s hard body movies. A portrayal that would have qualities that might be the opposite of what was predominate in the 1980s and 1990s hard body movies. Keywords: 1980s; action; body; body movies; cinej.2021.369; cinema; deconstruction; journal; male; movies; online; rocky; volume
• Use of ASMR Technique in Movies by Diren, Fatih (2025) - This article aims to be a guide for the cinema sector by investigating the effects of the use of ASMR techniques in cinema films on the emotional states of the audience. In this study, a short video shot using ASMR techniques (squeaking, rustling, detailed sound, cutting sound, water sound, cat purring, etc.) was shown to 10 (5 female and 5 male) Keywords: asmr; cinema; movies; online; participants; study; technique; use

• House of Affection: On the Way to the School by Yücel, Volkan (2016) - Even though there are no specific penalties for speaking Kurdish in the schools, teachers require Kurdish students speak only in Turkish for lessons. | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2016.143 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 160 Emre’s Affect Space Kurdish Student’s Affect Space Turkish language Kurdish language Turkish flag Kurdish conventions Turkish school Local conditions Turkish education system Kurdish Culture Turkish culture Authenticity Turkish discourse and oath (Happy is he who is a Turk) Turkish educational material State Legitimate official The most important barriers of affect spaces as shown in the above table are language, culture and identity. Keywords: affection; house; kurdish; school; students; turkish

• Reading the Simultaneous Motion and Reality Bending Concepts through Doctor Strange by Uner, Gülşah; Erdogan, Ebru (2021) - The film Doctor Strange (2016) was chosen because it contains fantastic features such as the characters creating different virtual spaces of their own by bending the reality, the simultaneous existence of the created spaces, the spaces being always in motion and formation, breaking the restrictive rules in the reality of the audience and creating different realities. As a result, space changes define time, and change in time defines space (Bordwell & Thompson, 1986). Keywords: bending; cinej.2021.301; cinema; doctor; fig; journal; motion; online; reality; space; strange; time; volume
• Cinema: Not Frames But Veils by Molina Barea, Maria del Carmen (2021) - Abstract The aim of this paper is to rethink the metaphors of the cinema as window and frame. The key to understand the fundamental differences between both terms, window and frame, is basically that the first one turns the spectator’s eye to an outer reality already given beyond the screen, while the second one draws attention to the images displayed on the screen. Keywords: cinej cinema; cinej.2021.312; cinema; cinema journal; frame; online; reality; screen; truth; veil; volume; window
• Interactive documentary as a living and embodying experience to represent reality: A practice-based case study by Aburghif, Hsham (2024) - Interactive documentary as a living and embodying experience to represent reality Volume 12.2 (2024) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2024.617 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 61 In conclusion, practice-informed research in interactive documentaries enhances knowledge production by combining experiential learning with academic inquiry. Keywords: Interactive documentary; Representing; Reality; Location; Culture; Audience New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: cinej.2024.617 |; cinema; documentaries; documentary; eden; experience; journal; marshlands; online; reality; representation; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu

• Victims and Survivors in the Rape-Revenge Narrative: A Comparison of Black Christmas (2019) and I May Destroy You (2020) by Keating, Michaela (2022) - Though unwilling to name rape-revenge as a genre, this earlier scholarship is integral in establishing that these depictions of rape and sexual violence are not only shown for exploitation or titillation (Robson, 2021). While the social discourse on rape and sexual violence continues to change, the rape-revenge genre continues to rely on some outdated notions of victimhood to tell a compelling story. Keywords: bella; cinej.2022.436; cinema; genre; journal; narrative; online; rape; revenge; riley; victims; violence; volume
• The Interrelation of TV-series and Interior Design in the Construction of Meaning: Cinematic Narratives and the Psychological Function of Space by Bolat, İdil; Dikmen Güleryüz, Oylum (2025) - The power of space design driving the narrative is also reinforced by the design of the additional CINEJ Cinema Journal: İdil Bolat, Oylum Dikmen Güleryüz Volume 13.2 (2025) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.767 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 881 spaces in both series. At the intersection of cinema and architecture: An exploration of how architectural space design transforms into a subject of resistance in the film Leyla’s Brothers. Keywords: apartment; characters; cinej.2025.767 |; cinema; cinema journal; design; interior; journal; meaning; narrative; online; series; space; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu

• Ink And Influence: The Role of Media on Climate Policy Understanding by Dalkılıç, Ibrahim; Doğan, Nezahat (2024) - Utilizing Climate Policy Uncertainty index (CPU), extracted from prominent USA newspapers as a main concern, the analysis reveals a noteworthy outcome indicating media coverage pertaining to environmental issues, pollution, and climate changes emerges as a contributing factor in the reduction of CO2 emissions. Keywords: cinema; media; newspaper; CO2 emission; climate policy; EKC New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: cause; change; cinej.2024.645 |; cinema; climate; climate policy; co2; emissions; energy; environmental; granger; journal; media; online; policy; role; usa; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu
• Book Review: Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World by Decker, Bradley (2014) - CINEJ Book Review: Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World Bradley Decker Chapman Universty, decke117@mail.chapman.edu Abstract A short review of the 2013 book, Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World, a succinct publication which explores the impact of new methods of media distribution, from their inception in the 1990’s, to the current climate of both legitimate and illegitimate streaming sources, and offers a framework within which to research future developments in the industry of online distribution. It is clear that the authors know the market quite well, and have harnessed the proper resources to back their claims as to the effectiveness of online distribution methods. Keywords: book; distribution; media; online

• Review of Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China by Zhu, Ke (2025) - | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2025.849 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 917 Review of Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China Ke Zhu How do Chinese audiences engage with art cinema in the sense of public culture? Xiang Fan’s Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China (2024) exemplifies the richness of the concept of art cinema (yishu dianying 艺术电影) itself. Keywords: art; china; cinema; culture

• Control and Resistance in the Heterotopic Spatiality of Pleasantville by ERSÖZ KOÇ, Evrim (2016) - The introduction of sexual experience into the lives of Pleasantville residents is a reference to sexual liberation, Betty Parker’s questioning and challenging the roles attributed to women is reminiscent of the feminist movement, and the “[s]cenes in which mobs of young men menace the 'coloured' CINEJ Cinema Journal: Evrim Ersöz Koç Volume 5.1 (2015) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2015.125 In the beginning of the film, David’s present day apocalyptic society filled with anxieties and fears are juxtaposed to the utopic qualities of safe Pleasantville. Keywords: cinej.2015.125; cinema; control; foucault; heterotopia; ibid; journal; online; pleasantville; resistance; space; town; volume
• The architecture of David Lynch by Blake Skelton, Shannon (2017) - With an impressive bibliography and 62 color plates of film stills, reproductions of paintings, and photographs of filming locations, the book is an important contribution to Lynch scholarship and engages film scholars to consider the dynamics of space, place and architecture in cinema. Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach, The Architecture of David Lynch “aims to develop further an understanding of the spaces Lynch has created by assessing his work alongside a diverse range of urban and architectural thinkers, as well as synthesizing insights from film studies, modern and contemporary art, and literature” (5) and places Lynch within the continuum of various architectural developments and spatial design explorations over the last forty years. Keywords: architecture; lynch; martin; space
• The Liminal and the Surreal: The Space of Limbo and Dreams in Luis Bunuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Malekpour, Miniature (2021) - As part of its surreal transparency, the link between the dreams and death has crossed over culture, time, and space to manifest itself alongside traditional Shamanic journeys, in which dream states cross over into the unknown (Klaniczay & Pócs, 2005). Turner concurs that in such liminal spaces, a person’s sense of identity dissolves, creating disorientation but also the possibility of new perspectives (Szakolczai, 2009, p.156). Keywords: bourgeois; bunuel; cinej.2021.342; cinema; doi; dreams; journal; limbo; online; space; surrealism; volume

• Editorial by Bayrak, Bengisu (2017) - The volume 6.1 of CINEJ Cinema Journal has seven articles, four book reviews, and one list of books on cinema and media received in 2016. CINEJ Cinema Journal: Bengisu Bayrak Volume 6.1 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.173 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 3 Ever heard of EVEL Knievel? Keywords: cinema; documentary; journal

• Review of Rated A: Soft Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India by Saha, Sourav; Kaur, Shyamkiran (2025) - Rated A: Soft porn cinema and mediations of desire in India. Moreover, by meticulously drawing on materials such as “diaries, court cases, novels, letters, news items, videos, and testimonies by and about artists and technicians”, Darshana delineates the trajectory of soft porn from the 1990s to the late 2000s, emphasizing its transnational circulation, local and global aesthetic influences, and the professional and personal networks that facilitated its production and distribution circuits (p. 28). Keywords: cinema; darshana; india; mini; porn

• Beyond the screen: Emerging cinema and engaging audiences by Janes, Stephanie (2017) - Volume 6.1 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.156 | http://cinej.pitt.edu http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CINEJ Cinema Journal: Beyond the screen: emerging cinema and engaging audiences Volume 6.1 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.156 | http://cinej.pitt.edu Beyond the screen: Emerging cinema and engaging audiences Stephanie Janes Beyond the Screen returns to Andre Bazin’s question ‘What is Cinema?’ Whilst the author sees the positive effects of all these films on audiences, including their ability to inform and influence policy, she also acknowledges the relationship between ‘purposeful storytelling’, perceived slacktivism and reductive representations of extreme poverty in some modes of emerging cinema which may have negative effects on the communities they are intended to assist. Keywords: atkinson; audience; cinema; screen

• Books received by Akser, Murat (2017) - CINEJ Books received Murat Akser, m.akser@ulster.ac.uk Book Review In 2016 we have received a variety of books on cinema and media from these publishers: Bloomsbury Academic, Brill, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Edinburgh University Press, Manchester University Press, Peter Lang, Policy Press, Routledge, University of California Press, University of Illinois Press, Wayne State University Press. Wayne State University Press, 2015. Keywords: press; publishing; state; university
• Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain by Hodgson, James (2018) - What makes Tinkcom’s volume particularly useful is that it explains some key concepts in queer theory via the careful analysis of a single film, Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain (Lee, 2005). The book is relatively short, at 125 pages, and divided into two chapters; the first provides a broad overview of queer theory and the second uses an extended analysis of Brokeback Mountain CINEJ Cinema Journal: Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain Volume 7.1 (2018) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2018.211 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 279 to exemplify some key queer ideas. Keywords: brokeback; press; queer; theory; university
• Books Recevied 2018-19 by Akser, Murat (2019) - Microsoft Word - 232-1442-1-LE.docx Books received Murat Akser, m.akser@ulster.ac.uk Ulster University Book Review In 2018-19 we have received a variety of books on cinema and media from these publishers: Bloomsbury Academic, Brill, BFI, Columbia University Press, Edinburgh University Press, IB Tauris, Manchester University Press, Peter Lang, Policy Press, Routledge, University of California Press, University of Illinois Press, Wayne State University Press and Yale University Press. New York: Columbia University Press. Keywords: bloomsbury; london; press; university
• Books received by Akser, Murat (2020) - Microsoft Word - CINEJ8.1.BooksReceived.docx Books received Murat Akser, m.akser@ulster.ac.uk Books Received In 2019-20 we have received a variety of books on cinema and media from these publishers: Bloomsbury Academic, Brill, Columbia University Press, IB Tauris, Intellect, John Wiley & Sons, Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Wayne State University Press. | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.280 | http://cinej.pitt.edu Books received Murat Akser In 2019-20 we have received a variety of books on cinema and media from these publishers: Bloomsbury Academic, Brill, Columbia University Press, IB Tauris, Intellect, John Wiley & Sons, Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Wayne State University Press. Keywords: london; press; university
• Books Received 2020 by Akser, Murat (2020) - Film Studies in China 2: Selected Writings from Contemporary Cinema. Making Worlds: Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema. Keywords: cinema; press; university; university press
• Books Received 2021 by Akser, Murat (2021) - In 2021 we have received a variety of books on cinema and media from these publishers: American University of Cairo Press, Amsterdam University Press, Auteur, Bloomsbury Academic, Columbia University Press, Edinburgh University Press, IGI Global, Intellect, Liverpool University Press, transcript Verlag, University Press of Mississippi and Wayne State University Press. Microsoft Word - 21.CINEJ9.1.415.docx Books Received 2021 Murat Akser, Ulster University m.akser@ulster.ac.uk Books Received In 2021 we have received a variety of books on cinema and media from these publishers: American University of Cairo Press, Amsterdam University Press, Auteur, Bloomsbury Academic, Columbia University Press, Edinburgh University Press, IGI Global, Intellect, Liverpool University Press, transcript Verlag, University Press of Mississippi and Wayne State University Press. Keywords: cinema; press; university; university press

• Joyland: A Cinematic Representation of Pakistani Patriarchal Joint Family by Baloch, Rizwan Bashir; Hassan, Abul; Ali, Syed Atef Amjad; Hassan, Ali Ab Ul (2025) - Keywords: Joyland; patriarchy; joint family; sexual relationship; banned film New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Pakistan embraces joint families as a social norm, with grandparents playing a significant role in the family unit (Baig, Rehman, & Mobeen, 2014). Keywords: ali; cinej.2025.709 |; cinema; family; haider; hassan; journal; joyland; mumtaz; online; pakistani; volume; | http://cinej.pitt.edu

• Exploring Time Travel Rules in Time Travel Films by Curry, Jarvis Tyrell (2023) - Time travel in the Star Trek franchise is voluminous and inconsistent, but in this incarnation, time travels creates two separate timelines which exist in parallel, the grandfather paradox holds only in certain respects, self-dealing doesn’t seem to be a concern, and meeting oneself is fine (Bacon, 2020). This study reviews time travel films to determine the cinematic consistency of three of these rules; the grandfather paradox, time-traveling for self-benefit, and meeting oneself in an alternate time. Keywords: figure; future; journal; online; past; rules; self; time; travel; volume

• Power, command and violence in von Trier’s Manderlay. A political and philosophical analysis of pseudo-democracies. by Marino, Sara (2016) - Democracy, he goes on, means rule by the people, and as people ‘naturally’ contain the germs that Girard identified in the inclination to violence, democracy itself presents a ‘dark side’ that sups with the devils of political violence. Is humans’ ability to destroy other human beings; is the omnipresence of human violence and the very concrete eventuality of its triumph, to a point that ‘killing others’ is probably what we love, and we are addicted to, most (Canetti, 1962; Author, 2009). Keywords: community; democracy; grace; human; journal; manderlay; online; power; trier; violence; volume; von
• Becoming-Animal in the Narrative and the Form of Reha Erdem’s Kosmos by Keskin, Suphi; Baykan, Burcu (2020) - Throughout the movie, he recurrently ruptures the unity of animal faces by a series of extreme close-ups in line with Deleuze’s (2003) statement on the face: “the face is a structured, spatial organization” (p. 20), and it “has a great future, but only if it is destroyed, dismantled” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 171). As discussed earlier, Erdem also matches highly unsettling and extreme close-ups of animal faces with the dramatic and emotive human faces or situations throughout the movie. Keywords: animal; cinej.2020.275; cinema; deleuze; doi; erdem; guattari; human; image; journal; kosmos; online; volume
• An Examination of Red Dragon (2002) in Light of the Deleuzian Theory of Becoming‑Animal by Yardimci, Kemal (2023) - In the series of Red Dragon paintings, it is the contradiction that is recurrently highlighted between good and evil, heaven and hell, or the moon and the sun. The Theory of Becoming Animal in the Red Dragon In the movie Red Dragon, Francis Dolarhyde is a serial killer who murders people and leaves bitemarks on his victims’ bodies as a sign of his oral fixation, as a result of which he is nicknamed The Tooth Fairy. Keywords: blake; cinema; deleuze; dragon; human; paintings; red; theory
• Deterritorializing The Self: Becoming-Child in the Characters of Reha Erdem’s What’s A Human Anyway? (2004) by Keskin, Suphi (2022) - While the stories of Keten and Ali form the basis of the plot, CINEJ Cinema Journal: Becoming-Child in the Characters of Reha Erdem’s What’s A Human Anyway? Despite his soft personality, Ali begins to CINEJ Cinema Journal: Becoming-Child in the Characters of Reha Erdem’s What’s A Human Anyway? Keywords: ali; characters; child; deleuze; erdem; guattari; human; journal; keten; online

• The Acoustic Mirror and Subversive Visual Strategies in Park Chan Wook’s The Handmaiden by Claveria, Javier Zapata (2022) - This sequence is connected to the end of the first part by establishing an acoustic nexus that links the screams of Sook-hee (when it is revealed that she has been betrayed, apparently, by Hideko and she is going to be locked up in an asylum) and the cries of Lady Hideko due to the physical abuses from her uncle. In the first part, we started the story thinking that everything is a plan between the Count and Sook- hee to fool Hideko and keep her money; however, at the end of this part we discovered that those who are really in cahoots are Lady Hideko and the Count. Keywords: cinema; female; hee; hideko; journal; online; park; sook; voice; volume

• Review of Dark Energy: Hitchcock’s Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime by Collamati, Anthony (2014) - Imaginative linking also drives Skerry’s approach to Hitchcock’s biography. The connection to Hitchcock is not explicit, but it blends rhythmically with Skerry’s treatment of the many trains in Hitchcock’s oeuvre. Keywords: camera; energy; hitchcock; skerry
• Review of The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood by Bowen, Dorian (2020) - Chapter 4 is Constructing Scenes with the Camera. A history of camera movement must be a history of ideas about camera movement. Keywords: camera; chapter; movement
• Garden of Ambivalence The Topology of the Mother-child Dyad in Grey Gardens by Tüzün, Defne (2012) - Abstract The Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens, portrays the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith, known as Little Edie, the aunt and first cousin, respectively, of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Seeking God in Early Bergman: The Cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light Volume 1.2 (2012) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2012.48 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 93 Garden of Ambivalence: Direct Cinema’s Failures of “Authentic” Aesthetics in Grey Gardens The Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens, portrays the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith, known as Little Edie, the aunt and first cousin, respectively, of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Keywords: camera; edie; gardens; grey; mother

• Panoptic Pranksters: Power, Space and Visibility in the Information Panopticon in Scare Campaign by Cardozo, Elloit (2018) - This paper aims to bring out the various nuances of the Information Panopticon in Cameron and Colin Cairnes’ film Scare Campaign (2016) and how it facilitates the exercise of power. This paper aims to bring out the various nuances of the Information Panopticon in Cameron and Colin Cairnes’ film Scare Campaign (2016) and how it facilitates the exercise of power. Keywords: access; campaign; information panopticon; power; scare; scare campaign
• Order, Disobedience and Power in Kieslowski’s Dekalog by Barış, Janet (2018) - Foucault says that CINEJ Cinema Journal: Order, Disobedience and Power in Kieslowski’s Dekalog Volume 7.1 (2018) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2018.199 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 159 resistance exists where power is, and depends power relationships on the plurality of resistance against power (Akay, 2000, p.20). In other words, knowledge is political as its presence depends on power relationships. Keywords: child; commandments; dekalog; doi; father; foucault; journal; kieslowski; online; order; power; relationship; volume

• “not conducive for sobriety”: Sex Addiction and Neoliberal Masculinity in Don Jon and Thanks for Sharing by Gwynne, Joel (2021) - Figure 1: Jon maintaining his physique in Don Jon (2013) CINEJ Cinema Journal: Joel Gwynne Volume 9.1 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.320 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 188 Indeed, if hegemonic masculinity is defined as socially idealized attributes that, when exhibited by men, perpetuate male dominance and superiority, then the film makes it clear that Jon’s masculinity is hybridized. Thanks for Sharing and Shifting Masculinity CINEJ Cinema Journal: Sex Addiction and Neoliberal Masculinity in Don Jon and Thanks for Sharing Volume 9.1 (2021) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2021.320 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 191 Blumberg’s Thanks for Sharing appears to make similar conclusions about the centrality of neoliberalism to shifting masculinity, and from the opening scene it makes it clear that hegemonic masculinity, and the role of sexuality in its construction, is central to the film. Keywords: addiction; cinema; don; jon; masculinity; online; sex; sharing; thanks; volume

• Review of Postcolonial Theory and Avatar by Fujiki, Kosuke (2016) - In the first half of his book, Basu Thakur overviews some of the criticism toward postcolonial theory as currently institutionalized in academia and then revisits the theories of Frantz Fanon and the “Holy Trinity” (p. 33) of Said, Bhabha, and Spivak. Although the works of some of those theorists are notorious for being densely theoretical, Basu Thakur suggests that the CINEJ Cinema Journal:Review of Postcolonial Theory and Avatar Volume 5.2 (2016) Keywords: basu; thakur; theory
• Binge-Watching and the Theory of Desire: A Lacanian Perspective on Netflix Consumption Patterns by Öztürk, Emrah (2025) - Understanding this structure is essential for analyzing how digital platforms like Netflix influence user desires and keep them in a continuous cycle of consumption and longing. While this behavior is often viewed as a product of convenience or entertainment, it reflects a deeper psychological process rooted in the structure of desire. Keywords: binge; content; desire; lacan; netflix; online; subject; theory; watching

• Venom: A Desiring Machine by Yücel, Volkan (2020) - According to Deleuze, the desire is CINEJ Cinema Journal: Venom: A Desiring Machine Volume 8.1 (2020) CINEJ Cinema Journal: Venom: A Desiring Machine Volume 8.1 (2020) Keywords: cinema; deleuze; desire; eddie; journal; venom

• Masochist and Sadist Individuals at the Socio-Cultural Crisis in The Banshees of Inisherin by Hosseini, Sajed; Babaie , Payam (2024) - The proposed questions include: What is the function of death drive in the subjectivity of an individual destructing himself? What are the possible socio-cultural implications of death drive as suggested in the movie? Keywords: banshees; colm; death; death drive; drive; inisherin; journal; lacan; pádraic; self

• Review of Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema by Basea, Erato (2014) - Also, an exploration of homosexuality in popular Greek films could further highlight and perhaps elaborate the argument the author is putting forward, namely that films represent masculinities in complex ways. For instance, bearing in mind Judith Butler’s analysis of the performativity of gender, one cannot but want to learn more about the power of film as a medium in forming, disseminating and encouraging a performativity of (a certain kind of) Greek masculinity. Keywords: cinema; gender; greek; masculinity

• Post-TV: Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television by Mazzoli, Eleonora Maria (2016) - In the recent Post-TV: Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television, lecturer in Communication Studies Michael Strangelove presents an overview of today’s fundamental re- definition of the medium once known as television. The effects of such online fringe audiences are analysed in the context of the entertainment industry, with a particular focus on sports television digital piracy, which constitutes one of the most controversial cases. Keywords: cord; piracy; television
• HBO Effect by Sexton, Max (2017) - | http://cinej.pitt.edu HBO Effect makes excellent points regarding the shift in political and social values in contemporary American society, and its effect on HBO drama. Volume 6.1 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.148 | http://cinej.pitt.edu http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CINEJ Cinema Journal: Max Sexton Volume 6.1 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.148 | http://cinej.pitt.edu HBO effect Max Sexton One more book on HBO risks raising critical eyebrows in some quarters. Keywords: book; hbo; television

• Review of Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading by Marino, Sara (2014) - Abstract Controversial and unconventional designer of formal experimentations, simultaneously celebrated and despised around the world, performative to a point that realism is achieved through the manipulation of realistic conventions hidden in everyday forms of human interactions, von Trier is indeed one of the most important contemporary filmmakers within European cinema, as well as the protagonist of Koutsourakis’s Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading. Overall, Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading represents a very important contribution within the fields of film and cinema studies for at least two reasons: first and foremost, because it positions von Trier as a post-Brechtian filmmaker whose political and dialectical experiments ‘wake up’ the audience’s perception of history and human relations. Keywords: form; trier; von
• Political Claustrophobia in Lars von Trier’s Europa and America Trilogies by Denli, Özlem (2018) - My aim in this essay is to unearth and analyze the political mood and undertones that underlie the cinematography of Danish director Lars von Trier, with particular focus on select films categorized under Europa and American Trilogies. CINEJ Political Claustrophobia in Lars von Trier’s Europa and America Trilogies Özlem Denli ozlem.denli@gedik.edu.tr Gedik University Abstract This essay aims to trace the specific kind of political pessimism, that can be termed ‘political claustrophobia’ underlying the filmography of the Danish director Lars von Trier. Keywords: america; dogville; europa; grace; journal; lars; trier; von

• The IMAGES Project (www.images-1.over-blog.org) and the IMAGES Project 2011 Publication IMAGES - Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounter by Bernard, Veronika; Oksay, Serhan (2011) - Innsbruck and Istanbul Veronika Bernard and Serhan Oksay (IMAGES project directors) http://cinej.pitt.edu/ From an intercultural perspective (intercultural) communication means that you open your own culture to ideas rooting in the other’s culture by dropping own cultural ideas and including ideas rooting in the communication partner’s culture. Keywords: images; project; university

• The Orientation of Future Cinema: Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle by Ballas, Anthony James (2018) - However, it would be easy to criticize Isaacs analysis for this very reason, as his text does not offer much in the way of critique of spectacle images or blockbuster cinema more generally. Volume 6.2 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.194 | http://cinej.pitt.edu http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CINEJ Cinema Journal: The Orientation of Future Cinema: Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle Volume 6.2 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.194 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 223 The Orientation of Future Cinema: Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle Anthony James Ballas In The Orientation of Future Cinema Bruce Isaacs argues for a reconsideration of spectacle cinema, utilizing numerous historical and contemporary examples in the attempt to reorient our view of the future of screen media. Keywords: cinema; image; isaacs

• An analytical study of the ritual ceremonies in Iranian performing arts, a case study of Travellers by Khalili Kolahian, Shiva (2020) - Rites are a part of religion and creed, and basically considering the attitudes and beliefs of the early humans to supernatural forces, human life has been dealing with different rites from the beginning, and these rites have become more complete in terms of details and hierarchy and morphed into ritual ceremonies over time. This new analysis avoid the unrealistic distinction between religious rites and political rites, and transcend the duality of holy and unholy, traditional and modern, focusing on the connection between power and holiness. Keywords: arts; ceremonies; cinej.2020.260; cinema; journal; light; mirror; online; rites; ritual; travellers; volume
• Seeking God in Early Bergman: The Cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light by Kartal, Esma (2012) - When we come to Tomas’ personal salvation, one can observe that he gets rid of his former idea of God, that “spider God and monster” and creates in his mind a new conception of God. Microsoft Word - CINEJ2012_8_DOI45_pages79-85.docx Seeking God in Early Bergman: The Cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light Esma KARTAL, Keywords: bergman; god; light; seal; winter

• Existence is a Location: “The Others” in the Form of Conceptual Metaphor by Morgan Mok-Won, Park (2023) - The multimodal analysis of conceptual metaphors enabled us to comprehend how the metaphor of EXISTENCE IS A LOCATION emphasized the significance of physical space for one’s being. Keywords: otherness; conceptual metaphor; multimodal metaphor; precarious existence; housing instability New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License. Keywords: cinej.2023.591; existence; house; journal; location; metaphor; online; volume

• Reinventing Consumption Traditions through the Process of Unification of a Country: Understanding “Good Bye Lenin!” by Engür, Ece Ceren (2016) - Ece Ceren Engür, eceonder@iyte.edu.tr Abstract This paper focuses on the change of consumption traditions in terms of re-unification of a country. Reinventing consumption traditions through the process of unification of a country: Understanding 'Good Bye Lenin’ Volume 5.1 (2015) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2015.128 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 138 Reinventing consumption traditions through the process of unification of a country: Understanding “Good Bye Lenin!” Keywords: consumption; country; lenin; mother; online; traditions; volume

• The Role of the Chorus in Akira Kurosawa's 1990 Yume (Dreams) by Papagiannis, Lampros (2024) - However, with the appearance of the commander’s soldiers, all of which with the ghostly look of Noguchi, it is apparent that we are dealing with a type of Greek chorus, though not without a violation of the rules. Regarding the connection to the Greek drama, it can be said that he weeping demons chorus matches the Bacchae from Euripides’ homonym play, in which the chorus consists of women dancing and screaming like wild beasts under the spell of Dionysus. Keywords: akira; chorus; cinema; dreams; greek; journal; kurosawa; online; role; volume

• Review of The Drift: Affect, Adaptation and New Perspectives on Fidelity by Barraclough, Rachel (2014) - In conclusion, this book lays the groundwork for an essential radicalising and broadening of the field of adaptation studies, presenting new ways of thinking about and analysing the relationship between films and literary texts which, if developed further within future research, would certainly enliven and transform the ways in which we think about intertextuality and inter-media relationships in a variety of fields. Microsoft Word - CINEJ3.2.107pp244_248.docx Review of The Drift: Affect, Adaptation and New Perspectives on Fidelity Rachel Barraclough University of Lincoln, rachelbarraclough@hotmail.co.uk Abstract John Hodgkins’ book revitalises the field of cinematic adaptation studies by drawing upon and developing concepts of affect, most notably theorised by scholars such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, contributing to a growing trend in wider areas of film scholarship where these concepts have been used to challenge normative ideas and methodologies. Keywords: adaptation; affective; hodgkins

• Gender and Identity at Boarding Schools: Outcast Teachers in Maedchen in Uniform (1958) vs Loving Annabelle (2006) by Tatulescu, Petruta (2011) - In Loving Annabelle Simone usually wears pants and a white shirt resembling her students’ shirts. Boarding schools Keywords: annabelle; boarding; minute; school; simone; teacher; uniform

• Review of The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema by Maydana, Sebastián Francisco (2020) - So, 1940s Universal Mummy films are redeemed after being unjustly mistreated by critics and scholars. In fact, film monsters are far from praised among critics, and perhaps the least appreciated of them is the Mummy. Keywords: book; cinema; mummy

• Review of Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance by Taymoorzadeh, Negar (2020) - | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.293 | http://cinej.pitt.edu CINEJ Cinema Journal: Review of Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance Volume 8.2 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.293 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 464 Review of Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance Negar Taymoorzadeh Michelle Langford’s compelling study provides a welcome and much needed addition to the existing scholarship on Iranian Cinema as well as on allegorical aesthetics beyond the Iranian case. Privileging extended close readings of chosen films over a comprehensive account of allegory in Iranian Cinema, Langford’s monograph traces allegorical aesthetics chronologically throughout the history of Iran’s cinema. Keywords: aesthetics; allegory; cinema

• Review of Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh by Bute, Swati Jaywantrao (2014) - Microsoft Word - CINEJ3.2.104pp230_233.docx Review of Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh Swati Jaywantrao Bute AMITY University, swatibute2@gmail.com Abstract Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh is a compilation of sixteen articles that are clubbed into four themes. Keywords: leigh; mike

• Review of Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman by Binns, Daniel (2014) - Across this trajectory (of which Snow’s La Region Centrale is a crucial turning point), film form has undergone something of a rite of passage. Volume 3.2 (2014) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2014.109 | http://cinej.pitt.edu CINEJ Cinema Journal: Daniel Binns Volume 3.2 (2014) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2014.109 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 256 Review of David Tomas, Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman. Keywords: cinema; farocki; tomas

• Review of A Christian Approach to Cinema: Tarkovsky. Film as Prayer by Buteanu, Ioan (2021) - The whole book of Elena Dulgheru is based on Andrei Tarkovsky's words chosen as motto: “Art is a form of prayer. Elena Dulgheru makes a brief reference to Mircea Eliade and prefers to cite a definition of symbol (as a common element of expression of art and religion) which, from the perspective of Pavel Florenski, is an organic unit of the representer and of the represented (Florenski qtd Dulgheru 75). Keywords: dulgheru; prayer; tarkovsky

• Confronting Existential Dilemmas: An In-Depth Analysis of Vicky Cristina Barcelona through the Philosophies of Sartre and Camus by Das, Debarath (2024) - In conclusion, Vicky Cristina Barcelona engages with existential themes in a way that resonates with the philosophies of Sartre and Camus. An In-Depth Analysis of Vicky Cristina Barcelona through the Philosophies of Sartre and Camus Debarath Das Introduction Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) directed by Woody Allen1 explores existential themes through the lens of romantic relationships, echoing the philosophies of existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Keywords: barcelona; camus; cristina; vicky

• Review of Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art by Pettigrew, Ian (2014) - Keith McDonald and Roger Clark’s approach to del Toro accepts the Mexican born director as such, investigating both the roles he plays within Hollywood and the international cinema community and also providing explorations of each of his eight films to date. This is the first book length scholarly consideration of del Toro’s work and it will certainly not be the last as del Toro continues to prove himself as one of the most interesting and rewarding filmmakers working today. Keywords: del; toro

• Review of Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader by Brown, Shane (2014) - The Monstrous Technologies section in particular moves away from traditional film and television texts, and includes chapters on the internet, video games and even the production of digital technologies. Whereas the first part of the book focuses on the psychoanalytical and representational approach, this second section not only widens the types of approaches, but also moves beyond film and television to also include the internet, video games, and the “zombification” caused by mining for minerals in the Congo that are then used in the production of digital technologies. Keywords: century; collection

• Review of The Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Film-makers: Peter Jackson by Seijo-Richart, María (2016) - He quotes Jackson stating that he prefers working in New Zealand to CINEJ Cinema Journal:Review of Peter Jackson Volume 5.2 (2016) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2016.152 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 195 retain creative control, instead of being “an employee for a studio” (p. 66) in corporate Hollywood. CINEJ Review of The Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Film-makers: Peter Jackson María Seijo-Richart, M.Seijo-Richart@leeds.ac.uk Book Review Alfio Leotta, The Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Film-makers: Peter Jackson, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Keywords: jackson; leotta

• The last laugh: Strange humors of cinema by Bowen, Dorian (2017) - What follows are analyses that span the silent film era to modern day, from specific performances (Conrad Veidt in 1928's The Man Who Laughs) to themes recurrent in a director’s catalog (Orson Welles) to entire genres (noir, science fiction/horror, avant-garde, gangster) to specific films, including Don't Look Now (1973), Black Swan (2010), Henry Fool (1997), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Dark Knight (2008), and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Some scholars may wish to have seen certain genres explored in more depth or lament that certain films had to be omitted, but I believe most will find this admirable breadth of scope to be entirely satisfying. Keywords: cinema; humors; laugh

• Deglamming as Estrangement: Ugly in Monster, The Hours, and Cake by Pearl, Sharrona (2020) - CINEJ Cinema Journal: Deglamming as Estrangement: Ugly in Monster, The Hours, and Cake Volume 8.1 (2020) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2020.268 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 221 I don’t mean this in the clichéd and oft-repeated (as we’ll see) film critic narrative that deglamming actors are being “brave” by going ugly. He argues that for iconic stars, the task can be CINEJ Cinema Journal: Sharrona Pearl Volume 8.1 (2020) Keywords: aniston; cake; cinej.2020.268; cinema; deglamming; hours; journal; kidman; monster; online; theron; volume

• Review of Towards A Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film by Poloni, Marco (2021) - The plenitude of the visible is thus based on the existence of an invisible site, the Inside on an Outside, the on-screen world on the off-screen world, the effect on an absent cause (Lie, 2020, p. 14) CINEJ Cinema Journal: Review of Towards A Political Aesthetics Of Cinema. This is why «the film camera may be understood less in its empirical existence as a material, technical apparatus, and more as a phantom essence» (Lie, 2020, p. 15). Keywords: cinema; lie; outside

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