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Full-Text Articles in Other Film and Media Studies
Narratives Of Violence: The White Imagination And The Making Of Black Masculinity In “City Of God”, Jaime Alves
Narratives Of Violence: The White Imagination And The Making Of Black Masculinity In “City Of God”, Jaime Alves
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The article explores the representation of young-black men in the 2002 film City of God. The film deploys “pathological scripts” of Black masculinity in Brazil as criminal and deviant. The controlling image of Black men’s bodies as a source of danger and impurity sustains Brazilian regime of racial domination, and the narratives of violence make explicit the ways in which the Brazilian nation is imagined though a racial underpinning. Blackness is consumed as an exotic commodity, yet is also understood as a threat to national harmony. The nation is, then, written and re-imagined as a racial paradise, but mostly by …
Economies Of Desire: Reimagining Noir In Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night, Ria Banerjee
Economies Of Desire: Reimagining Noir In Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night, Ria Banerjee
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This essay argues that Nicholas Ray reimagines the conventions of the film noir genre in his movie, They Live By Night. This book chapter is part of a study of director Nicholas Ray's oeuvre, Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema, eds. Steve Rybin and Will Scheibel. New York: SUNY Press, 2014
Science-Fictional North Korea: A Defective History, Seo-Young J. Chu
Science-Fictional North Korea: A Defective History, Seo-Young J. Chu
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- Kafkaesque, Orwellian, eerie, surreal, bizarre, grotesque, alien, wacky, fascinating, dystopian, illusive, theatrical, antic, haunting, apocalyptic: these are just a few of the vaguely science-fictional adjectives that are now associated with North Korea. At the same time, North Korea has become an oddly convenient trope for a certain aesthetic – an uncanny opacity; an ominous mystique – that many writers and artists have exploited to generate striking science-fictional effects in texts with little or no connection to North Korean reality. (The 2002 Bond film Die another Day, for example, draws from North Korea’s science-fictional aura to animate North Korean super-villains who …
American Indians In Feature Films: Beyond The Big Screen, Daisy V. Domínguez
American Indians In Feature Films: Beyond The Big Screen, Daisy V. Domínguez
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This article examines whether library collections represent the breadth of portrayals of American Indians in feature film and provides collection development resources for developing and strengthening feature film collections by and about American Indians.