Editorial 

 

Bengisu Bayrak 

Nişantaşı University, bengisu.bayrak@nisantasi.edu.tr 

 

 

Abstract 

Volume 5.2 (2016) includes the articles by Sara Marino, Richart Andrew Voeltz, Michael G. garber, 

Uchenna Onuzulike, Iqbal Shailo, Minakshi Dutta, Özge Karayalçın, Volkan Yücel, Ebrahim Barzegar. 

Keywords: Democracy, violence, and power; American Cold War; Nollywood; David Lynch; urban life 

and subjectivism; Chicano Movement; politics reflected in the educational system; Bollywood. 

 

 

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Editorial 

 

Bengisu Bayrak 

 

This volume of CINEJ Cinema Journal has nine articles, and three book reviews. 

Sara Marino undertakes a textual and visual analysis of Manderlay, and draws the connections 

between democracy, violence, and power. Richard Andrew Voeltz explores the cultural and 

political aspects of American Cold War through the 1957 aviation film Jet Pilot. Michael G. 

Garber applies theatrical theories of stage genres to the early sound films Puttin on the Ritz, 

and Free and Easy, and focuses on the sad clown figure as a symbol of tragicomedy. Uchenna 

Onuzulike analyzes the audience reactions (of Nigerians in Nigeria, and of Nigerians in South 

Africa) to different aspects of Nollywood films. Iqbal Shailo examines three contemporary 

Indian films (Earth, Lagaan, and Sarfarosh), and discusses how socio-cultural and regional 

differences are narrated through Bollywood films. Minakshi Dutta exemplifies the films of 

Saikia and Barua, and compares the characteristics of the cinematic projections of the urban 

life and urban subjectivities. Analyzing the 1987 film Born in East L.A., Özge Karayalçın 

frames the origins and development of the Chicano Movement in the United States. Volkan 

Yücel analyzes the film On the Way to the School (2008), focusing on the reflections of 

Turkish politics in the educational system. Ebrahim Berzegar takes two Lynch films, 

Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire, and analyzes how the multilayered and disjointed 

narratives function in constructing the Lynch worlds.  

The book reviews are; Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction (Gerstner, 

David A., and Julien Nahmias) by Margaret C. Flinn, Peter Jackson (Author: Alfio Leotta) by 



 

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María Seijo-Richart, and Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (Author: Gautam Basu Thakur) by 

Kosuke Fujiki.  

As announced in the previous volumes of CINEJ Cinema Journal, we have decided 

to broadened the subject of the journal and include photography, as it has inherent relations to 

cinema. Scholars who do research on photography and its related subjects such as visual 

semiotics are welcome to share their articles with our team.  We have aimed to be an open 

access journal inviting scholars who are willing to share their output with the rest of the world 

in this open source peer reviewed journal. 

I hope you will appreciate the content of the volume 5.2. Once again, as the crew of 

CINEJ Cinema Journal we would like to thank all the founders, the University of Pittsburgh 

staff, the writers, peer reviewers, and the publishers.