Cine-Excess VI: TRANSGLOBAL EXCESS: THE ART AND ATROCITY OF CULT ADAPTATION

Call for Papers for the 6th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions

by Filippo Del Lucchese

[28.12.11] - Cine-Excess VI focuses on global adaptations of cult narratives, genres, themes and icons across a broad range of media and fiction formats. From pulp novels into pulp horror films and recent big budget blockbuster remakes of marginal midnight movies, to nationally defined interpretations of the pre-established extreme, the cult image remains a fascinating index of adaptation, whose wide array of remakes, renditions and realisations frequently reveals fascinating issues of nation and narrative, as well cultural, regional and historical distinction.

[en] Cine-Excess VI: TRANSGLOBAL EXCESS: THE ART AND ATROCITY OF CULT ADAPTATION

Reviews » Tropa de Elite, Padilha, 2007

Movie and war on crime in Rio de Janeiro

by José Maurício Saldanha Alvarez

[9.10.11] - In many cinemas in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the film Elite Squad (2007), directed by José Padilha, was enthusiastically applauded by the public which, faced with the threat of urban crime, communicated in their applause their wish for a return to the previously existing equilibrium.

[en] Movie and war on crime in Rio de Janeiro

Articles » La société du spectacle, Debord, 1973

La fine dell'illusione, ai limiti della rappresentazione cinematografica

by Claudia Basteri

[20.9.11] - La “teoria radicale” si avvale del cinema solo come uno strumento di lotta contro l’epoca stessa che l’ha generato, rifiutandone in toto il ruolo originario, che ne fa il riflesso verosimile delle dinamiche sociali. I film di Guy Debord sono una liberazione efferata dell’elemento sublime, proprio in virtù della negazione categorica di tutte le strategie stilistiche del cinema.

[it] La fine dell'illusione, ai limiti della rappresentazione cinematografica

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Dossier

The ties that bind

the socio-politics of family

edited by Jana Toppe

[15.10.11] - Leo Tolstoy opens his masterpiece Anna Karenina with the sentence "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

[en] The Ties that Bind by Jana Toppe

[en] A Comparative Analysis of Motherhood in the US and Japanese Dark Water films by Sarah Arnold

[en] Political Subtexts in The Princess and the Frog and Kirikou and the Sorceress by Cécile Coquet-Mokoko

[en] Narcos, Necros, And Homos by Daniel Sander

[en] The Japanese family through Ozu’s and Koreeda’s cinema by Ana M. Caro-Oca and Francisco J. López-Rodrígu