Longing for the past is not a fissure, but a feature of the present Horea AVRAM |
Doru POP Abstract: The paper evaluates the myth-making processes in the history of the movie-making industry, claiming that we are witnessing the coming together of a myth-illogical universe, where Hollywood practices and narrative structures have reached a point of amalgamation with no return. The classical migration of my... Read More Keywords: mythology, cinema, comic-books, Disney, Greco-Roman heroes, archetypes |
Agnieszka RASMUS Abstract: This paper addresses the important role of remakes in flm culture and their vital function in refecting societal and cultural transformations. It looks at one particular case study of British to American cross-cultural exchange: The Lady Vanishes and Flightplan. Comparing British stereot... Read More Keywords: Remake, Hollywood, Hitchcock, Flightplan, The Lady Vanishes, gender, class, race, nationality, politics |
Recyclages apocalyptiques : Vers un héroïsme de la consciencedans Dogville de Lars von Trier Florence BÖGELEIN Abstract: Cet article propose d’examiner le flm Dogville du réalisateur danois Lars von Trier (sélectionnée au festival de Cannes en 2003) sous l’aspect du scénario qui se veut, de prime abord, recyclé. Dans l’Amérique des années Trente, Gr... Read More Keywords: Dogville, Lars von Trier, Antonin Artaud, recyclages, adaptations, cinéma et mythes, utopie et théâtre, cruauté sociale, manipulation des spectateurs, responsabilité |
From Eye to “Cinema-Eye” – Approaches on the Moving Image Tools Dan CUREAN Abstract: The new civilization of image is built on the knowledge brought on and mediated by the Eye, considered the sole means of visual perception. The embodied Eye takes us to the disembodied Cinema-Eye, the machinery that copies and stores the images in motion. The copy of reality, similar to that engraved onto... Read More Keywords: Cinema-Eye, camera, images in motion, cinema, visual perception, light |
Claudiu TURCUȘ Abstract: Using a comparative and intermedial approach, this paper aims: 1. to outline a typological overview of several literary and cinematic modes of representing communism in the Romanian society after 1989, highlighting, at the same time, the identitarian clichés pertaining to the transition that are in... Read More Keywords: post-communist nostalgia, adaptation, identity, Romanian transition, Dan Lungu, Stere Gulea |
Avatars d’un narrateur à travers les médias: Tim Tooney, Max Tooney et Mickey Mouse Carla CARIBONI-KILLANDER Abstract: Le monologue théâtral par l’auteur italien Alessandro Baricco, Novecento, publié en 1994 a fait l’objet de deux adaptations: en 1998 Giuseppe Tornatore a réalisé un flm en langue originale anglaise, The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean; en ... Read More Keywords: narrateur flmique, situation énonciative, texte source, adaptation |
Adaptation and Recycling in Convergent Cultural Polysystems: A Case Study Elaine BARROS INDRUSIAK Abstract: This paper aims at presenting and discussing the fndings of a research project that employs Polysystem Theory (Even-Zohar 1978; 2010) in mapping some of the contributions flm industry has brought to the Brazilian literary and cultural systems. The focus of the project is on the editorial boom and recyclin... Read More Keywords: literary polysystems, adaptation, cinema, recycling, J.R.R. Tolkien |
Adaptation as a Means of Refecting upon Immersivity and Self-Referentiality Liviu LUTAS Abstract: In this article, I apply parts of the method introduced by Linda Hutcheon in her recently reedited book A Theory of Adaptation (2010) and try to answer the question “why” an adaptation is made. I particularly study three complex cases of adaptation, which might even put into question ... Read More Keywords: Adaptation studies, Greenaway, Fforde, Black Venus, immersion, self-refexivity, intermediality |
Silent Opera: Visual Recycling in Olga Neuwirth’s American Lulu Heidi HART Abstract: Billed as a “Jazzy BlackPower BergWerk” at its 2012 premiere, Olga Neuwirth’s adaptation of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu combines jazz, soul, and sound clips of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches in close relationship with the original score. The opera also includes digital projec... Read More Keywords: opera, adaptation, visuality |
Jane SUNDERLAND Abstract: Theatre – whether in the form of an ‘adaptation’ or not – is theatre. Following much of the current critical literature on flm adaptations (e.g. Bortolotti and Hutcheon, 2007; Leitch, 2008; Hutcheon, 2006), in this paper I am therefore rejecting as far as possible any sort of &lsqu... Read More Keywords: affordance, epistemological commitment, Kafka, stage adaptation |
L’adaptation cinématographique d’une nocturne. Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder par Romuald Karmakar Daria IOAN Abstract: In 2004, the German film director Romuald Karmakar adapts Norwegian theater play for the big screen. Jon Fosse’s Nightsongs becomes Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder, which is presented at the Berlinale Film Festival the same year. Using a new script he had written in collabora... Read More Keywords: German cinema, adaptation, communication crisis, language as/and music, drama |
In Between Frames 2.0.: Time, Image and Remediation in Photography and Video Art (Two Case Studies) Horea AVRAM Abstract: The present essay addresses a number of issues related to contemporary visuality such as manipulation, quotation, remediation, unstable mediums, hybrid art discourse, and cross-referentiality, proposing the concept of In Between Frames as the main theoretical instrument. The term In Between Fram... Read More Keywords: medium, temporality, visual manipulation, photography, video, remediation, spectatorship |
Appropriation as Alchemy in New Media: A Case Study Elizabeth K. MIX Abstract: Historically alchemists were concerned with the search or a lapis, the Philosopher’s Stone, able to transmute lead into gold. A similar transformational process takes place digitally in the work of new media artists, whose computers and code are the equivalent of the philosopher’s st... Read More Keywords: new media, appropriation, digital alchemy, evolutionary biology |
“Digitalization” of Art Activism. A Case Study of the Cluj-based Collective MindBomb Mara RAŢIU, Bogdan IACOB Abstract: Critical attitudes regarding controversial social contemporary issues could take the form of art activism. The Clujbased collective MindBomb is a hybrid critical voice, combining political art and activism. Initiated in 2002, following the model of the San Francisco Print Collective, it reunites... Read More Keywords: art activism / activist art, art activist practices, political activism, digitalization, Internet, social media, contemporary social movements, social change, appropriation, recycling, detournement, cultural jamming |
Digital Debris in Internet Art: A Resistance to the Epistemology of Search Nils JEAN Abstract: The paper, explores the idea of digital debris in Internet Art. Here, I will understand digital debris as words typed in search engines and which then disappear; bits of obsolete codes which are lingering on the Internet, abandoned web pages, broken links or pieces of ephemeral information circulating on the Web 2.0 and which... Read More Keywords: debris, digitality, information, ephemerality, memory |
In Praise of Translation – Recent Intermedial Transpositions in Video, Print and Installation Ruth PELZER-MONTADA Abstract: In this essay different approaches to recycling images, generated by diverse technologies from historical print to most recent digital video, are discussed with reference to the notion of translation. In a broad interpretation of the notion of ‘recycling,’ the concept and practice of... Read More Keywords: translation, copy, intermediality, contemporary art, expanded printmaking |
In Search of Lost Forms: Contemporary Landscape as Post-production Florin ŞTEFAN Abstract: In this essay, I propose a reflection on the shifts occurred in contemporary art production and theory that changed the focus from a homogenous flux of discourses, to an artistic production characterized by indetermination, fragmentation, heterogeneity, multiplicity and playfulness. Reclaiming t... Read More Keywords: Landscape, painting, (post)-postmodernism, re-production, post-production, nostalgia, cultural remake, memory |
Klaus Obermaier – “My work is not simply visualization. It’s a totally different thing!” Rodica MOCAN Abstract: Interview with Klaus Obermaier, March 2013 (I) Read More |
Sign In