No.
46, Spring 2003
Text only, print version
Free
market, branded imagination—
Harry Potter and the commercialization of children’s culture
by Jyotsna Kapur
The
Harry Potter enterprise sets limits on providing children with transformative,
imaginative fantasies.
The
Goblin’s dilemma in Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan and Spider-Man
by Boyd White and Tim Kreider
Two
very different Sam Raimi films, in terms of visual style, have a striking
similarity thematically.
A
beautiful mind(fuck): Hollywood structures of identity
by Jonathan Eig
Who is that staring back at you in the mirror? In today’s Hollywood, the
answer is more confusing than ever.
“Pansies
don't float”– gay
representability, film noir,
and The Man Who Wasn’t There
by Vincent Brook and Allan Campbell
A queer reading of the Coen brothers’ 2001 noir homage examines questions
of subtext in a supposed age of “gay visibility.”
Three
Kings: neocolonial Arab representation
by Lila Kitaeff
Revisits
the film Three Kings, set in the first Gulf War, to examine further
mainstream U.S. media’s misrepresentation of Arabs, especially in the last
two years.
Contemporary
Singapore filmmaking:
history, policies and Eric Khoo
by Tan See Kam, Michael Lee Hong Hwee and Annette Aw
Eric Khoo’s Mee Pok Man and 12 Storeys offer an innovative
critique of Singapore society. The development and social-economic context
of Singapore feature filmmaking are also examined.
Letter
from Cuba
by
Michael Chanan
Eric Khoo’s Mee Pok Man and 12 Storeys offer an innovative
critique of Singapore society. The development and social-economic context
of Singapore feature filmmaking are also examined.
Why
the personal is still political—
some lessons from contemporary Indian documentary
by Jyotsna Kapur
The lyrical documentary has a new life in alternative media in India.
Chinese
feminist film criticism
by Gina Marchetti
Review of Dai Jinhua, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics
in the Work of Dai Jinhua, eds. Jing Wang and Tani E. Barlow. London: Verso,
2002.
Received
wisdom: three reception studies
by Tomas Kemper
Review of Janet Staiger, Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception
(New York University Press, 2000); Janet Staiger, Blockbuster TV: Must-See
Sitcoms in the Network Era (New York University Press, 2000); Annette Kuhn,
Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory (New York University,
2002).
Selections
from “A road-map for America“
by Anandam P. Kavoori
Selections from a
Jump
Cut contributor’s forthcoming book of poetry. Here he offers an immigrant’s
understanding of U.S. news presentations of the Gulf War.
The last
word
Unruly
consumption
by the Editors
U.S. administrators’ and media treatment of looting in Iraq versus the conspicuous
consumption of energy, and thus oil, in the United States that goes uncommented
on.
Links
Using
the Internet for contingent faculty organizing
by John Hess
Contingent
facultyare non-tenure eligible college faculty with term appointments (one semester,
two years, etc.) that are contingent on enrollment, funding and program change.
This faculty has little or no job security and very low wages compared to their
professorial counterpart. Since many of our readers are connected to colleges,
this resource guide will be of special interest to them.