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The life of Roger Ebert, the world-renowned film critic and social commentator whose influence in the world of journalism is felt to this day.
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Close-Up: Reclaiming Blaxploitation in the Global Diaspora: \I'm going to make sure your last few breaths feel like hell\: Blaxploitation as a Language for Black Women's Vengeance in Alice
This article examines Krystin Ver Linden's 2022 film Alice as a fusion of plantation horror and Blaxploitation genres that attempts to navigate the complex terrain of depicting Black women's trauma and resistance on-screen. Drawing on the true story of Mae Louise Miller, who escaped modern-day enslavement in the 1960s, Alice employs a palimpsestic approach to temporality, layeringthe nineteenth-century plantation with 1970s Blaxploitation tropes. The analysis explores how the film utilizes Blaxploitation, particularly Pam Grier's iconic performances, as a cinematic language to portray Black women's righteous vengeance against historical and ongoing brutality.
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Elusive Play in the Adaptation Cloud Atlas (2012)
This cognitively-oriented study is framed within the perspective of non-radical constructivism and it presents an analysis of a film adaptation using the adaptation-as-play model. It examines “elusive” adaptation, whose playfulness obscures specific adaptation techniques and leads to contradictory critical reception. The study focuses on the 2012 film adaptation Cloud Atlas, directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, and Lilly Wachowski, based on David Mitchell’s 2004 novel of the same name. The findings demonstrate that the seemingly disordered playfulness of the adaptation systematically organises the adaptation through individual layers of (playful) adaptation processes.
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Roger Ebert and the Games-as-Art Debate
This article examines the cultural legitimation of digital games, and how film critic Roger Ebert became the unlikely antagonist in a heated popular debate about games and art between 2005 and 2010. Although most scholars dismiss this debate as ignorant and misguided, it reveals much about colloquial notions of art and aesthetics, and it has had far-reaching implications for popular discourse on games. Framed by the Ebert debate, the article analyzes arguments for and against games as art in terms of their sociocultural significance and concludes by arguing that the debate is an important factor in the recent history of gaming culture.
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\For girls\: Hollywood, the date-movie market, and early-1980s teen sex comedies
[...]Spring Break and its trailer featured a female rocker delivering a self-assured performance of a song called \"Do it to you\" before an audience of spellbound frat boys. [...]the makers of Spring Break drew parallels between the aforementioned rock show and college boys staging sexualized party games to the delight of a group of raucous female onlookers. [...]scholars may wish to focus on how the distinguishing features of other assumedly male-youthoriented fare encouraged decision-makers to reach out in distinct ways to girls and young women. [...]youth market hits ranked in the top thirty of Variety's annual \"Big Rental Films\" charts. 3Carrie:$2.5m (67th/1976), $ 14.5m (132nd/ All- time, 1978) (Anon., \"Big Rental Films of 1977\" 25; Anon., \"All-Time Film Rental Champs [1978]\" 14).
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Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 3-D: game over and the 3-D resurgence
Despite the title \"The 'Return' of 3-D,\" Thomas Elsaesser neglects to mention Rodriguez at all, while a recent 3-D themed double issue of Film Criticism (Spring/Fall 2013) is guilty of the same. [...]this article intends to rectify this imbalance by examining where Rodriguez stands in this history. Yet attempts to appeal to the olfactory perception go back decades; Walt Disney had considered integrating smells into Fantasia (1940) before nixing the idea, while Michael Todd Jr.'s \"Smell-O-Vision\" released scents through the theater's ventilation system for Scent of Mystery (1960).36 In a similar vein, William Castle became known for his various theatrical gimmicks, including \"Percepto\" (the buzzers installed in seats for The Tingler [1959]), a \"fright break\" included in Homicidal (1961), or the \"Punishment Poll\" for his two possible endings of Mr. Sardonicus (1961). According to Rodriguez, the card manufacturers make the cards further in advance (allowing the smells to \"sit longer\") and that the inclusion of more \"activators\" made the technology more advanced.39 He also viewed it as essential to an increased desire for interactivity with today's audiences accustomed to gaming: Furthermore, as Elsaesser points out, in the military, scientific, medical, and security realms, 3-D technologies never actually went away.48 He adds, If one thinks of 3-D not as part of a cinema of attractions, not as startling you or throwing things at you from the depth of space, but as the vanguard of a new cinema of narrative integration, introducing the malleability, scalability, fluidity, or curvature of digital images into audiovisual space-doing away with horizons, suspending vanishing points, seamlessly varying distance, unchaining the camera and transporting the observer-then the aesthetic possibilities are by no means limited to telling a silly story, suitable only for kids hungry for superheroes, action toys, or sci-fi fantasies.49 Even if Rodriguez's 3-D efforts have thus far been \"limited to telling a silly story,\" would films like Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Pina have arisen if not for Rodriguez?
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Shinto and Buddhist Metaphors in Departures
Cinematic language is rich in examples of religious metaphors. One Japanese film that contains religious \"tropes\" (figurative language) is the 2008 human drama, Departures. This paper focuses on the analysis of religious metaphors encoded in select film shots, using semiotics as the theoretical framework for film analysis. The specific metaphors discussed in the paper are the Shinto view of death as defilement and Buddhist practices associated with the metaphor of the journey to the afterlife. The purpose of this paper is to augment the previous reviews of Departures by explicating these religious signs hidden in the film.
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Opinion: David Edelstein On Roger Ebert
This segment of Sunday Morning is about Roger Ebert, an American screen legend who died of cancer.
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