Editorial 

 

Bengisu Bayrak 

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

 

 

Abstract 

This issue of CINEJ focuses on a variety of topics: Animated documentary, political cinema, female 

sexuality, religion, mythology and culture, orientalism, globalization and action movies, Halit Refiğ and 

Turkish cinema.  

 

Keywords: animated documentary, political cinema, religion and culture, orientalism, globalization, 

Turkish cinema.  

 

 

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Editorial 

 

Bengisu Bayrak 

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.  

In his article titled A hybrid documentary genre: Animated documentary and the 

analysis of Waltz with Bashir (2008) movie, Barış Tolga Ekinci analyses Ari Folman’s 

animated documentary with methods of genre criticism and questions the boundaries of 

documentary and fiction.  

 The politics of spectatorship in the Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ian Dwayne Pettigrew 

demonstrates how the formal strategies utilized by Olmi negate Moravia’s assessment and 

controvertibly position spectators to re-evaluate their political relationships to those in their 

range of influence. 

Focusing on Muslim females, Ayesha Arfeen explores the representations of same-sex 

relationships in India in Same-sex love in Muslim cultures through the lens of Hindustani 

Cinema.  

Robin Aaron Bright’s Zippo Marx is written with the observation that the human comedy 

is the same in any language, and that the writer might not be God, but Satan, who is mocking us; 

hence it isn’t necessary to know another`s language completely to be aware that Satan’s mockery 

is universally directed at the unaware, and it`s the human author’s responsibility to be aware of 

the mocker. 

In Kingdom of Heaven and its ideological message Yiou Liu discusses the significance in 

making the epic film Kingdom of Heaven in the wake of 9/11, and its ideological messages.  



 

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Ever heard of EVEL Knievel? James Bond meets the Rural sheriff by John D. 

Schwetman, discusses the conflict between the images of international, cosmopolitan hero of 

James Bond and a local character, a southern American sheriff, at the films directed by Guy 

Hamilton, Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). 

Murat Akser translates and presents an excerpt from Halit Refiğ's article titled For Those 

Who Seek Mastery and Personality, which was originally published in 1968 in a film magazine.  

Max Sexton reviews HBO Effect by Dean J. Defino, Dorian Bowen reviews The Last 

Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema edited by Murray Pomerance, Stephanie Janes reviews 

Beyond the Screens: Emerging Cinema and Emerging Audiences by Sarah Atkinson, and 

Shannon Blake Skelton reviews The Architecture of David Lynch by Richard Martin, and finally 

Murat Akser lists the books on cinema and media received in 2016. 

As announced in the volume 4.1, CINEJ welcomes subject areas that have inherent 

relations with film arts. Scholars who do research on photography and its related subjects such 

as visual semiotics are welcome to share their articles with us.   

Once again, as the crew of CINEJ Cinema Journal we would like to thank all the 

founders, the University of Pittsburgh staff, the writers, the peer reviewers, and the publishers.