Vision, Representation and Cinema Discuss the representation of the province in Nuri Bilge Ceylas' Clouds of May in relation to modernity. The film Clouds of May depicts a clash of two worlds: a more traditional world, and the world of modernity. The film reveals the tensions between the old and the new, and also the real and the unreal. It depicts the attempts of an urban filmmaker named Muzaffer to create a

The outcome of all of this was a rock concert which -- aside from the actual happenstance of performances -- was heavily controlled by the interest of the filmmaker. Though various aspects of the concert-attendance experience indicate that great care was paid to the appeal of the event itself, there is an explicit self-consciousness on the part of the subject as to the grander intention of the captured film

(Baudry, the Apparatus: Metapsychological Approaches to the Impression of Reality in Cinema 707). Baudry explains that in reality, the spectator is actually convinced to assume this due to the effective application of the cinematic apparatus, thus enforcing a standardized spectatorial basis. Furthermore, Baudry later also mentioned that the cinematic apparatus and its ideological connotations created focus upon the ability of the cinema to symbolize the psychic desire of the

Renaissance of Korean National Cinema' as a Terrain of Negotiation and Contention between the Global and the Local: Analyzing two Korean Blockbusters, Shiri (1999) and JSA (2000)" by Sung Kyung Kim This article analyzes the state of nationalistic cinema in Korea as it borrows film trends from Hollywood in order to carve out a better foothold among Korean audiences, who have a taste for Hollywood fare but still want to

Cold War and Film Generally speaking, the Cold War has been depicted as an era of spy games and paranoia in popular films from the 1960s to the present day, but the reality of the era was much more complex. The Cold War was a period of military and political tension from 1947 to 1991, or from the end of WW2 to the collapse of the Soviet Union, in which

Sexuality and Stigma in Cinema: Gay and Transgender Representation According to the sociological theorist Erving Goffman, to bear a 'stigma' is to viewed by society as abnormal. "Stigmatized people are those that do not have full social acceptance and are constantly striving to adjust their social identities: physically deformed people, mental patients, drug addicts, prostitutes, etc." (Crossman 1). Until relatively recently, people in Western society who possessed same-sex desire were stigmatized