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Capturing the Floating World: Digital Documentation of a Kelong in Singapore
This paper presents the digital documentation of Kelong E63, one of Singapore’s last remaining kelongs, or offshore fishing platform. As a dynamic, vernacular structure, the kelong was documented using a hybrid methodology combining LiDAR, photogrammetry, sonar, 360° video, and other spatial media, incorporating knowledge gained from traditional fieldwork. Technical and environmental challenges such as tidal shifts and structural instability required an adaptive, multi-phase approach to digital documentation. Beyond structural accuracy, the project aimed to capture the intangible rhythms of kelong life. Adopting a transmedia perspective, the project integrated spatial datasets with oral histories, archives, and media, allowing user-driven exploration of the site. This work-in-progress demonstrates how immersive digital tools can preserve not just the technical form, but the lived experience and “aura” of maritime heritage.
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In Dialogue: Response to Review
Among the browser windows open underneath the e-mail where James Leo Cahill offered me this generous platform to record a response to Jared Sexton's review of my book were two items that modulated my reaction. The first contained a news report about Heath Mello, a pro-choice candidate for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. Mello's prospects in the deeply conservative region had risen on a tide of post-2016 fervor but were taking on water in the election's closing days due to erroneous reporting that in 2009 he had cosponsored a bill requiring abortion patients to look at their fetal ultrasounds. In truth, the legislation only required that patients be informed that the images were available. Still, national women's groups balked. Unsettled by the controversy, Mello's bid failed. In an adjacent tab I had clicked on an interview with Asad Haider, Pakistani American cofounder of the Marxist Viewpoint Magazine. His opposition to identity politics had elicited vociferous criticism. Amid the incoming fire were befuddling accusations from some quarters that he is white. Toggling through these pages, I was struck by how the conflicts intersected. Under normal circumstances I might have countered with an itemized riposte to the review, but the necessity of that now felt far less pressing. I am hence letting the book speak for itself. To abstain, however, is not to vacuously agree to disagree, because something is terribly wrong in these dangerous times, which a truce does nothing to solve. Plainly, I failed to persuade Sexton, and some of his critiques actually hardened my own convictions. Nevertheless, even if our minds remain unchanged, we must absolutely rethink what we do in the aftermath.
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Said's Marxism:Orientalism's Relationship to Film Studies and Race
Orientalism was powerfully normalized through its incorporation into scientific disciplines, by way of scientists, geographers, and philosophers who were present on colonial expeditions. [...]Said also connects Orientalism within the arts and sciences to Western domination of the Orient. Many works, such as Visions of the East and Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema, are popular anthologies assigned in university courses about race and media. [...]the issue exceeds one of mere misinterpretation.
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When and Where Is the Digital Revolution in Cinematography?
This article questions the standard history being constructed about the adoption of digital cinematography in commercial cinema, a narrative whose broad assumptions resonate with industry professionals, including cinematographers. Digital image acquisition is frequently taken to be motivated by an industrial push to cut production costs, which impinges on the creative autonomy of film artists. This perception overlooks parts of Hollywood's current business model concerning production values and theatrical exhibition that will sustain film cinematography in the foreseeable future. These findings then lead the article to address filmmakers and critics who fear that photorealist aesthetics will be supplanted by digital images that possess a different visual signature. Prognostications that the digital look will replace that of film as the norm appear inaccurate.
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Yasmin Ahmad's “Orked” Trilogy
Sepet(2004), the sequelGubra(2006), and prequelMukhsin(2006), directed by Yasmin Ahmad, narrate the three major relationships of Orked, a Muslim girl in Malaysia negotiating them at different points in her life. The essay considers Ahmad's cinephilia and sentimental style, and their relation to the trilogy's postcolonial themes.
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A Gray Zone between Documentary and Fiction: Interview with Janus Metz
Janus Metz discusses his award-winning filmArmadillo(2010), which he shot while embedded with a platoon of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan's Helmand province. He locates the film within the discourse of the War on Terror, the possibilities of documentary style, and the mythologies of war narratives.
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The Netflix Effect
Netflix is the definitive media company of the 21st century. It was among the first to parlay new Internet technologies into a successful business model, and in the process it changed how consumers access film and television. It is now one of the leading providers of digitally delivered media content and is continually expanding access across a host of platforms and mobile devices. Despite its transformative role, however, Netflix has drawn very little critical attention—far less than competitors such as YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Comcast, and HBO. This collection addresses this gap, as the essays are designed to critically explore the breadth and diversity of Netflix’s effect from a variety of different scholarly perspectives, a necessary approach considering the hybrid nature of Netflix; its inextricable links to new models of media production and distribution, to new modes of viewer engagement and consumer behavior, its relationship to existing media conglomerates and consumer electronics, to its capabilities as a web-based service provider and data network, and to its reliance on a broader technological infrastructure. Marking the first scholarly work to address its significance, The Netflix Effect provides a critical framework for understanding the company’s specific strategies as well as its broader social, economic, and cultural impact.
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