Romanian Cinema in the 1960s: Socialist Modernity vs. Cinematic Modernism

Modernity, Modernisation, Modernism

3. Modernity, Modernisation, Modernism and the First World War 3.

Wittgenstein, modernity and the critique of modernism

Modernism in Tunisia; from formation to the emergence of a critical view to modernity (1881-1937)

Tunisia became acquainted with modernism in the early nineteenth century, due to relation with Egypt and Ottoman, and interaction with France, which were of the main origins of modernism. Modernism in Tunisia began with the renovations of Ahmed Bey (d. 1837-1855). This modernism continued until the beginning of French colonization (1881) and the emergence of critical views to modernity. Tunisia...

Brainwashing the cybernetic spectator: The Ipcress File, 1960s cinematic spectacle and the sciences of mind

This article argues that the mid-1960s saw a dramatic shift in how 'brainwashing' was popularly imagined, reflecting Anglo-American developments in the sciences of mind as well as shifts in mass media culture. The 1965 British film The Ipcress File (dir. Sidney J. Furie, starr. Michael Caine) provides a rich case for exploring these interconnections between mind control, mind science and media,...

What Is Body, What Is Space? Performance and the Cinematic Body in a Non-Anthropocentric Cinema

The assumption of a clear demarcation and hierarchy between figure and ground has long informed key approaches in film studies to bodies and space. However, many filmmakers working in both animation and live cinema have confounded this hierarchy, working with an integration of figure and ground on equal terms to explore the full performative potential of the cinematic body. In the animation wor...