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Eisenstein and his Method: Recent Publications in Russia

A self diminished to its part becomes a monster. – Marina Tsvetaeva, 1932 In 1998, the world celebrated the centenary of Sergei M. Eisenstein, famous Russian film director and one of the most radical...

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Pretending to be Himself: Graham Kennedy, Television, Film and Authenticity

It could be argued that Graham Kennedy was the star that Australian television just had to have. The mythology built up around him has required, as perhaps do all such mythologies, a significant...

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Re-designing the Past Imperfect: The Making of Hunt Angels

Our visions of history are drawn from diverse sources: not just from the narratives of history books but also from photographs and historical novels, from newsreel footage, comic books and,...

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Quasi-Documentary, Cellflix and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies’ Other Visual...

In China, as elsewhere, new locations and new media have redefined the experience of watching a moving image, beyond the cinematic experience. (1) The visual works that one can view outside movie...

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“Caught Between Poetry and Censorship”: The Influence of State Regulation and...

Since the early 1990s, contemporary Iranian cinema, with its culture of auteurism and poetic consciousness, has continued to inspire lively critical discourse and popular acclaim. Recent scholarship...

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Rethinking Transnational Cinema: The Case of Tamil Cinema

In a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, Steven Vertovec suggests that, while there have been a variety of uptakes on transnationalism, there has “not surprisingly [been] much...

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“The Illusion of Magnitude”: Adapting the Epic from Film to Television

When Giuseppe de Liguoro’s Homer’s Odyssey (1910) was released in the U.S. in 1912, a review in The Moving Picture World praised it for beginning “a new epoch in the history of the motion picture as a...

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From Colonial Film Commissioner to Political Pariah: Joris Ivens and the...

Appointed Film Commissioner of The Netherlands East Indies on 28 September 1944, in September and October of the following year Joris Ivens directed Indonesia Calling (1946), a film which was anathema...

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Modernity and the Film Exhibition Industry in Gippsland: The Glover Family...

Marshall Berman claims that modernity “pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal” (1). This article contends that successful exhibition in country Australia depended on film...

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