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We live in a time of competing discourses of race, discourses that are especially fraught in the industries of science and medicine. Not, however, according to President Bill Clinton, who [...]

A life is everywhere, in all the moments that a given living subject goes through and that are measured by given lived objects: an immanent life carrying with it the [...]

In his 1962 memoirs, the French actor and director Joe (Jean) Hamman claims the distinction of 'le premier western' for his film Le Cowboy, made around 1906. (1) He then [...]

The democratic scope of Robin Wood's film criticism is something to be celebrated in itself; that his interests were always varied and wide ranging is the key strength of his [...]

Abstract Responses to the prevalence of wartime rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s civil war has been characterised by a conflicting paradox between the international legal attempts by the ICTY [...]

One problem that Othello presents for the film-maker lies in the location of the tragic action. Film is primarily a visual medium, dealing with the reflection of light from surfaces; [...]

Netalie Braun's short film 'Gevald' (2008) examines the investment of queerness in secularism. 'Gevald,' which is set on the eve of a gay pride parade in West Jerusalem, focuses on a lesbian couple. The film manages to tell a complicated story in its portrayal of the complexities inherent to the different conflicts in Jerusalem despite of its portrayal of queerness as secularist.

Sharif Waked's 2003 film 'Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints' focuses on Israeli checkpoints and their effects on aspects of Palestinian daily life such as mobility. Checkpoints were found to be one of the most direct and obvious practice of control over a Palestinian body through searches and forced stripping. The homoeroticism in the practice of forced stripping in checkpoints is also discussed.

Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh present different visions of Shakespeare's Henry V. My topic here is the different cinematic techniques with which each gained artistic success. So that it will [...]

This article considers the motion picture The Ninth Day (2004, dir. Volker Schlondorff), and the manner in which Father Jean Bernard's experience in Dachau has been portrayed in the film. [...]

The Shining (1980) is the prime instance among Stanley Kubrick's films of a curious, conflicted, and creative approach-avoidance syndrome with regard to the Holocaust. Kubrick's family origins in the shtetl [...]

The Counterfeiters joins a small group of films in which characters are faced with the 'choiceless choices' of 'gray zone' situations. Its characters must decide whether to assist the Nazis [...]

This article evaluates three movies by Michael Verhoeven--The White Rose (1981), The nasty Girl (1990), and My Mother's Courage (1995)--as an accidental but coherent trilogy. Focusing on their narratives, cinematic [...]

Deepa Mehta's Earth (1998) deals with the 1947 partition of India, and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda (2004) concerns the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Earth depicts violence through two sets of [...]

While new changes in Moroccan women's rights are attributed to the country's new reform-minded king, the late 1990s also saw a turning point for cinema in Morocco. (1) Over this [...]

The Thin Red Line (1998) marked a return to filmmaking twenty years after Terrence Malick's previous release, Days of Heaven (1978), and thirty-five years removed from his debut film, Badlands [...]

In addition to being considered one of the founding filmmakers of the Czech New Wave, (1) Vera Chytilova was its most experimental director. This article will take as its case [...]

The introduction of landscape in film instead of constructed decor allowed radical changes of perception of space in film. In fact, space in film ceases to be conceived as pictorial, [...]

Jay Leyda--or rather his absence--frequently haunts my efforts at film scholarship. (1) Consider People's Congressman (1948), a campaign film for U.S. Congressman Vito Marcantonio, which I first encountered in the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a newspaper column published in April 1953, the American social critic Walter Lippmann sharply criticized the creation of a newly bureaucratized government propaganda agency by noting the [...]

I thought, just like many people think, that the people of the state or the people of the country have a memory of the things that you did when you [...]

I tell you, it is hard to say all that North Carolina is. But she is all of this and more. --FROM THE FILM NORTH CAROLINA: THE TAR HEEL STATE [...]

Depicting the life of Alexander the Great on film presents many challenges, a fact that may explain the few attempts at it. The most notable cinematic treatments are Robert Rossen's [...]