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Introduction – Formes Narratives Et Co-Production Dans Les Cinémas Des Pays Arabes, José Moure, Elie Yazbek, Wissam Mouawad

Regards

Malgré la reconnaissance, surtout ces dernières années, et le succès de certains films arabes sur la scène internationale, et malgré l’augmentation remarquable du nombre de festivals de cinéma dans les pays arabes, ce qui reflète un intérêt toujours grandissant dans ces pays pour le cinéma, les industries cinématographiques dans cette région du monde restent en général peu développées...

Le « Cinéma D’Auteur » De Palestine : Expérimentations, Circulations, Émancipations, Marion Slitine, Charlotte Schwarzinger

Regards

This article explores the stakes of the “cinema d’auteur” in Palestine and intends to analyze the constraints and opportunities that this cinema allows, through two case studies that question the cinematographic creation of Palestinian directors in exile. The first is a feature-length film, Recollection by Kamal Aljafari, a filmmaker from “Palestine of 48” who self-produced his film; the second, Dégradé by Arab and Tarzan Nasser, two directors from Gaza, benefited from an Arab-European co-production. While these two examples have very distinct characteristics, their comparative trajectories make it possible to raise more general questions related to the interactions between creation, production …

Le Cinéma Libanais Coproduit : Écarts Et Variations, Noha Maroun

Regards

Lebanese filmmakers often choose particular narrative forms for their co-produced movies. Either they deviate from traditional screenplay writing or they develop a lot of thematic variations. The margins of freedom, creativity, and inventiveness therefore increase globally in Lebanese co-produced cinema. To what extent are these new narrative forms adapted to the destabilized Lebanese geopolitical context? How do documentaries, dramas, and road movies establish a kind of Lebanese identity and memory in these movies, leading to their frequent selection in European and international film festivals?

Résumé

Les cinéastes-auteurs libanais choisissent souvent des formes narratives particulières pour leurs films coproduits. Ils oscillent …

La « Condition Des Femmes » Au Maghreb Fait Recette Sur Le Marché Du Film Européen ! 1990-2019, Patricia Caillé

Regards

This article examines the commercial and symbolic valorisation of Maghrebi films on the European market, looking at film admissions, film criticism, and academic discourses. It explores the position and the significance of films made with Maghrebi funding in Europe, while focusing more specifically on films on the condition of women, and films by women filmmakers. Comparing the circulation of Tunisian and Moroccan films in Europe, it highlights the recurring narrative tropes of these films and shows how films on the condition of women became the lead product on the French market. These films brought more success to male than to …

Possibilité Du Filmage Documentaire Des Marges Berbères Au Maroc : Cas Comparés Des Tournages Clandestins De « La Longue Journée » (Mohamed Abbazi, 1969) Et D’« Amussu » (Nadir Bouhmouch, 2019), Marie Pierre-Bouthier

Regards

This paper explores two filmic attempts at compensating for the invisibility in which Amazigh people and struggles are kept in Morocco. Both films and filmmakers experimented with shooting and production plans, devices, and film forms that should best convey these realities. With a 50-year interval between the two, both attempts share the ambition to go against the limitations imposed by the “Centre Cinématographique Marocain”, resorting to clandestine shooting and supported by an international network. In particular, both attempts were made possible by a detour through California (USA). The Breadwinner (1969) is an unfinished documentary by Mohamed Abbazi, dedicated to the …

La Guerre Civile Libanaise Au Cinéma Et Les Circulations Transculturelles, Thomas Richard

Regards

The trajectories of Lebanese film directors and their work, characterized by a strong international dimension and by their insertion within the art film networks, bear the mark of interactions between local and global visual and memorial norms linked to these trajectories, in a globalized cultural environment. These films, though enriched by this international dimension, may appear to develop their narrative following the demands of international festival audiences, risking that these demands become constraints, and at the risk of possible loss of contact with local audiences.

Résumé

Les circulations des cinéastes libanais et de leurs œuvres, fortement marquées par une dimension …

Production Locale Et Coproductions Européennes Des Films D'Auteur Dans Le Cinéma Turc Contemporain, Hilal Ahiskali

Regards

Since its birth, Turkish cinema has gone through different eras that have allowed it to progressively evolve towards an author cinema. Even though it took longer than for European cinema, certain contemporary Turkish directors today manage to nourish themselves not only from the aesthetics and theory of European cinema but also from their own cinematic culture called Yeşilçam. This is the result of their cinematographic approaches, their independent productions, and European financial support. These production sources have allowed Turkish directors to choose the subjects of their films to work on their art, rather than serve the commercial expectations of …

Petites Et Grandes Guerres : Une Filmographie Des Longs Métrages Tournés Au Liban Pendant La Guerre Civile (1975-1990), Hady Zaccak

Regards

This study was carried out as part of the “Ciné-rencontres de l’ALBA” (Académie libanaise des beaux-arts, University of Balamand), a film event organized at the School of Cinema and Audiovisual Directing by Ghassan Koteit, May El Koussa, Danielle Davie, Myriam Hage, and Gregory Buchakjian, from April 9 to 12, 2019.
This filmography includes 70 feature films (fiction and documentaries) shot in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990...

Résumé

Cette étude a été effectuée dans le cadre des « Ciné-rencontres de l’ALBA » (Académie libanaise des beaux-arts, University of Balamand), événement de rencontres cinématographiques organisé à l’École de cinéma et de réalisation …

Les Co-Productions Algériennes Avec L'Europe : Standardisation Ou Résistance ?, Salima Tenfiche

Regards

After more than twenty years of silence, Algerian cinema has resurfaced on the international scene for ten years, through co-productions with foreign countries and especially Europe. The use of foreign funding and the recognition of these films by the legitimating institutions of the North — reading committees and prestigious international festivals — raise the question of the subjugation of these filmmakers to European cultural hegemony.
However, if some Algerian filmmakers and producers appeal to foreign funds, it is above all to free themselves from the supervision of the State and from censorship in their own country. These filmmakers are far …

Nomadland, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Nomadland (2020) directed by Chloe Zhao.

El Abrazo De La Serpiente O Un Mise-En-Scène Sin Fronteras, Sandra Ortiz-València

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

El abrazo de la serpiente es una de las obras cumbre del cine latino americano que más reconocimiento internacional ha obtenido, pero ¿por qué el filme de Ciro Guerra fascinó a un público tan amplio y diverso, obteniendo premios en lugares tan alejados y dispares como Montreal o Yereván, por nombrar alguno? Esta presentación realiza un análisis en profundidad de la puesta en escena en El abrazo para explicar el lenguaje audiovisual con el que el filme de Ciro Guerra construye una narrativa cinematográfica alejada de las formas dominantes, pero habilitada para emocionar a audiencias de todo el mundo. Tomando …

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Plastic Goes Concrete: "Plasticnic" And "Plasticpoems", Two Animated Poetry Videos About Plastic Pollution, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Nhat Truong, Tisha Deb Pillai

The Goose

The author describes the creation of two short animated video poems about plastic pollution that originated in concrete/visual poems. "Plasticnic" is a humorous and colourful narrated video based on a shaped poem depicting how we enjoy nature while simultaneously harming it through plastic consumption. "Plasticpoems" is a text-based, unnarrated animated video poem about plastic pollution based on two shaped/visual/concrete poems.

De La Gravure Scientifique À La Gravure Artistique : Le Burin De Pierre Lyonet Et De Cécile Reims, Hélène Laulan, Caroline Anthérieu-Yagbasan

The Goose

Comment l’image peut-elle nous faire habiter le monde ? Pour répondre à cette problématique, nous cherchons ici à interroger la tension peut-être trop tranchée entre images scientifiques et images artistiques, pour construire un questionnement ontologique sur l’image. Cette réflexion s’appuiera sur la pratique de deux graveurs, l'un dit « scientifique », et l'autre « artiste ».

The Video Camera Spoiled My Ethnography: A Critical Approach, Katherine Gregory

Publications and Research

As videography and other media technologies are normalized in the field of qualitative methods for the purpose of data collection, there is a growing need to discuss the benefits and limitations of these data collection tools. This article chronicles an ethnographic video study focused on the experiences of Muslim adults living in the Netherlands, and why the author opted to end the project. Issues focus on reckoning with the imperial gaze of the camera, performative behavior of participants before the camera and interdisciplinary tensions the researcher faced from conflicting trainings as a qualitative methodologist and media practitioner.

Death Of A Local Scene? Music In Dublin In The Digital Age, Caroline O'Sullivan

Books/Book chapters

This chapter reflects on the Dublin indie and dance music scenes from 2000 to 2017 and examines the everyday reality of being a musician or DJ and the pathways to becoming a regular performer in Dublin over that same period. In the climate of declining gig attendance, closing venues and music piracy, I trace the digitally shaped economic reality for musicians in Dublin over the period 2000–2017. I extrapolate how musicians have made money to pay for the expense of sustaining a career as a musician, such as equipment and production costs, and I investigate how they earned money to …

The Virtues Of Being Human: Faith, Hope, And Love In James Gray's The Immigrant (2013), The Lost City Of Z (2016), And Ad Astra (2019), John Adair

Journal of Religion & Film

James Gray’s three most recent features reflect on the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love, revealed and developed through encounters with others. The Immigrant (2013) reveals the way faith informs familial commitments, social bonds, and a life-giving response to suffering and injustice. The Lost City of Z (2016) portrays a dreamer, a man whose hopeful vision of another world animates every aspect of his being. And Gray’s most recent feature, Ad Astra (2019) traces a man’s turn toward relationship as he discovers what it means to love. In each case, as Gray’s characters display these virtues, the characters transcend …

Heroes, Villains And The Muslim Exception: Muslim And Arab Men In Australian Crime Drama, Sana Patel

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Mehal Krayem, Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception: Muslim and Arab Men in Australian Crime Drama.

Theology And The Films Of Terrence Malick, Joel Mayward

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston, eds., Theology and the Films of Terrence Malick.

The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, And The Radical Imagination, Joseph W. Roberts

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination by Greg Burris.