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Open Cultural Studies, 2017
In the spirit of poetic license from Be Kind Rewind (2008), this article argues that Michel Gondry's film " swedes, " its playful neologism for ersatz remaking of Hollywood and classic films, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. The feature follows the Sanchification of Jerry (Jack Black), Gondry's Don Quixote, and Quixotification of Mike (Mos Def), Gondry's Sancho, as they nostalgically wrong cinematic rights through sweding and try to save their working-class neighbourhood from condemnation and gentrification through community filmmaking. Gondry swedes the Quixote through his engagement with major themes and operations in Cervantes's classic, including nostalgia, story-telling, conflicts between reality and fantasy, authorship, the grotesque and carnivalesque, (anti-)heroes, race and gender-bending, genre, and addressees turned addressers. This article discusses Be Kind Rewind's relationship to Hollywoodian and Cervantine classics through the theoretical frameworks of Julio García Espinosa's imperfect cinema and Foucauldian semiotics, respectively. Be Kind Rewind uses and abuses Hollywood stereotypes to re-purpose them for a critique of discriminatory practices. Where casting is concerned and where Michel's characters diverge from Miguel's, Be Kind Rewind advances that skin colour is not an arbitrary sign and that race has historical and contemporary meaning in intercultural interactions.
Studies in Australasian Cinema, 2008
Examination of the mythologies in the post-modern world demonstrates that the epic as a mediation of traditional mythic meanings has failed to attach to traditional representations of some version of the real. However, epic mythologies which previously had survived as narratives that society told to children children has integrated into new media as the means of storytelling through games, television, film. Through the implosion of images, the development of new visual medias, the expansion of the hardware and software globally, and the promotion of a world of virtual-reality, a return to epic mythology as the subject of transmedial storytelling is occurring as a narrative rich in immersion, continuance, and expansion for many version in many different mediums of storytelling. In fact, as narratives integrate the post-modern condition as part of the story scape, new and traditional archetypes and the formulaic steps of the monomyth operate within the confines of the post-modern attempting to expand and explore those limitations and create a narrative filled the possibilities and multiplicities of evolving concepts of the real. Keywords: List of Keywords in Title Case, Transmedia, Digital Narrative, Epic Mythology
Studies in European Cinema, 2009
Visual Communication Quarterly, 2009
If there was a hell on earth in the 1930s, then journalist John Louis Spivak depicted it with the novel Georgia Nigger. With journalistic reporting and photographs, Spivak attempted to sear into the national consciousness the brutality of Georgia chain gangs of the American South. Although muckraker Lincoln Steffens called Spivak (1897-1981) "the best of us," among media historians Spivak is almost unknown. However, his chain gang photographs contributed to a shift in thinking about race and the morality of torture. Using historical methods and visual concepts, this inquiry fills a research gap by examining Spivak's photography.
Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America, 2017
This chapter examines the interactions between of Bibles and comic books/graphic novels in America. It explains how the images of comic book Bibles reveal American Protestants' changing understandings of the religious work of images. It engages comic art from Basil Wolverton, Al Hartley, and E.J. Pace, among others. This chapter was published in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America (Oxford 2017), a collection edited by Paul Gutjahr.
Éditions du Seuil, 2024
Technological Innovation for Human-Centric Systems. DoCEIS 2024, 2024
International Journal of Engineering Research and, 2020
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 2022
Clinical Cancer Research, 2005
Jurnal Manajemen Bisnis Transportasi dan Logistik, 2023
Journal of Information Technology Research, 2019
JMIR research protocols, 2017
Conference: Geostiintele in secolul XXI At: Bucharest, Romania, 2019
Izvestiâ Saratovskogo universiteta. Novaâ seriâ. Seriâ Filologiâ/Izvestiâ Saratovskogo universiteta. Novaâ seriâ. Seriâ Filologiâ. Žurnalistika, 2024