Mirna ŠOLIĆ |
Dis/Orienting the Border: The Poetics of Disorientation in Avant-Garde Accented Narratives Christine VICERA Abstract: As products of “dual postcolonial displacement and postmodern or late scattering,” accented filmmakers experience migration “not only as a movement in space, but essentially a movement in time” (Naficy 11, Köhn 109). This paper uses Robert Throop’s four forms of temporal o... Read More Keywords: film studies, migration, accented cinema, aesthetics |
Anat Tzom AYALON Abstract: A distant image of a boat adrift in the Mediterranean Sea, with thirteen refugees on board. Taken from a YouTube clip, the image is dealt with and stretched in slow motion. The unsynchronized soundtrack is composed of faceless voices of migrants and refugees. The fragmented soundtrack and the “process... Read More Keywords: trauma, ethics, voice, face and “hester panim” (hiding of the face) |
Adam DOMALEWSKI Abstract: The article deals with the phenomenon of migrant comedy films, framing the genre as part of the larger body of diasporic cinema. The author’s definition of migrant comedy conceives it as a very specific genre typically set in immigrant milieus, whose main themes revolve around successful social and mo... Read More Keywords: Migrations in motion pictures, Comedy films, Romantic comedy films, Stereotypes in motion pictures, Multiculturalism, Motion pictures and transnationalism |
Filmic Migration and Wandering Sounds: The Relation Between Accented and Dialect Cinema Silke MARTIN Abstract: In the context of the music documentary Heimatklänge (Echoes of Home) Marcy Goldberg (48) suggested speaking of dialect cinema. Dialect cinema normally maintains the visual and audio character of its place of origin. It differs from the transnational accented cinema of filmmakers in e... Read More Keywords: Accented cinema, dialect cinema, Echoes of Home, Heimatklänge, Landscape, Music, Migration, Soundscape |
The Sudetes in Czech Cinema – a Political Space Trapped by National and Class Stereotypes Luboš PTÁČEK Abstract: The theme of Czech-German co-habitation in the Sudetes, from where over two million German citizens were uprooted after the Second World War, has become one of the most politicalised themes in Czechoslovakian and then Czech cinematography. Keywords: Sudetes, history and film, Czech-German relations, Czech cinema, ideology |
Antonio J. BONOME Abstract: Anca Damian’s film Crulic-drumul spre dincolo (Crulic-The Path to Beyond, 2011) may be a good example of form fitting content in the context of new Romanian cinema. The film makes use of a Keywords: Animation, Collage, Diary, Frontier, Immigration, Memory, Romanian, Passive resistance |
Doru POP Abstract: This contribution overviews the transformations of Romanian cinema by analyzing three recent films, used as case studies for describing a larger, typological change happening in contemporary national cinema. La Gomera (The Whistlers, 2019) directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, Parking (... Read More Keywords: accented cinema, alingual, diasporic, exilic, localism, migration, national, paraphrastic, transnational, vernacular |
Interview Hanno Höfer – Often on the Road Ioan BUTEANU Abstract: Hanno Höfer is a musician, film director and producer of German origin born in 1967 in Timişoara and now living in Bucharest. Read MoreKeywords: Hanno Höfer |
Mihai Gavril DRAGOLEA Abstract: Cătălina Simion-Călin. Autorul de film și Cinematograful Exilului [The Exiled Film Author and the Cinema of Exile]. Editura UCIN, 2018. Read MoreKeywords: Cătălina Simion-Călin, Autorul de film și Cinematograful Exilului, The Exiled Film Author and the Cinema of Exile |
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