scholarly journals A TEORIA CONTEMPORÂNEA DO CINEMA

Author(s):  
José Carlos Felix
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O presente ensaio pretende discutir as vicissitudes da teoria contemporânea do cinema diante do fenômeno pós-estruturalista conhecido como Teoria. Para isso, partimos de uma problematização das grandes correntes que moldaram o pensamento teórico sobre o cinema ao longo do século XX e cujas temáticas refletem as duas correntes de pensamento que vem dominando o debate e a produção dos escritos sobre cinema após 1970: a teoria de posição subjetiva e culturalismo. Em relação à primeira vertente, os ensaios “Prazer visual e cinema narrativo” (1975) e “Reflexões sobre ‘Prazer visual e cinema narrativo’ inspiradas por Duelo ao sol, de King Vidor” (1981) de Laura Mulvey serão tomados como base para uma reflexão dessa questão. Já na última seção, o ensaio O “A alegoria histórica”, de Ismail Xavier, e o livro Crítica da imagem eurocêntrica (1994), dos críticos norte-americanos Robert Stam e Ella Shohat nos permitirão problematizar a questão das representações culturais e políticas do cinema — especialmente o não eurocêntrico — a partir de uma concepção multiculturalista.

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Durgnat ◽  
Scott Simmon
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Author(s):  
Robert Jackson

Chapter 1 surveys the contributions of southerners to film with an emphasis on activity within the South. Linking the early development of the medium to post-Reconstruction “New South” ideology and grounding it in the efforts of several early innovators from Virginia, this chapter covers a number of important events and movements: the Spanish-American War of 1898, the emergence of Jacksonville, Florida as a major production center in the 1910s, the diverse history of North Carolina’s early film cultures (Asheville as a production center, Karl Brown’s Stark Love, diverse filmmaking ventures throughout the state, the state’s popular education film program, the brilliant career of town documentarian H. Lee Waters), and the long career of King Vidor.


Author(s):  
Sebastião Belfort Cerqueira

Stanley Cavell closes Contesting Tears with a chapter titled “Stella’s Taste: Reading Stella Dallas”, devoted to the 1937 movie, directed by King Vidor, which Cavell compares to the other movies he has studied in the book and finds “to be the most harrowing of the four melodramas to view again and again.” Cavell’s reading of this movie is organized against what he calls the generally “accepted view” of the film where there are two key interpretive moments: in one, Stella, the protagonist, on vacation with her teenage daughter, Laurel, at a fancy hotel, tries to impress Laurel’s new friends by dressing up and ends up making a fool of herself, in a spectacle of bad taste; Stella then finds out what people thought of her and realizes she has embarrassed Laurel, eventually deciding to drive her daughter away from her, towards her father (Stella’s now ex-husband); this takes us to the second key moment: the final scene, where Stella anonymously watches her daughter’s wedding from the sidewalk, through a window, and walks away, which is generally seen as confirming Stella’s sacrifice, representing the dissolution of motherhood — hence, of her identity.


Author(s):  
Guilherme De Almeida
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O escritor modernista Guilherme de Almeida (1890-1969) escreve críticas de cinema no jornal O Estado de S. Paulo a partir de 1926, indo até pelo menos a década de 40. Nelas testa diferentes modos de crônica e notas de comentário, que merecem avaliação na história da nossa crítica cinematográfica, sobretudo na capacidade de observar nos atores o que mais desperta interesse no público leitor. Edita seus “retratos” dos atores de sucesso nas telas silenciosas num esquecido livro de 1929, Gente de cinema, de que selecionamos esta moderna Marion Davies que reverbera versatilidade imitando numa só seqüência uma galeria de estrelas norte-americanas e européias, neste não menos moderno filme de King Vidor, Filhinha Querida (1927, The Patsy, ).


Author(s):  
Adele Reinhartz

Several biblical epics from the 1950s and 1960s with strong female heroes contain a narrative thread involving the stoning or threat of stoning of these protagonists. Notably, this motif is entirely absent from the biblical stories on which the films are based. This essay examines this feature in three films: David and Bathsheba (Henry King, 1950), Solomon and Sheba (King Vidor, 1959), and The Story of Ruth (Henry Koster, 1960). I argue that the motif of stoning is adopted from the New Testament story of the woman caught in adultery (John 7:53–8:11), and that this use contributes both to the subtle denigration of traditional Judaism and the reinforcement of gender hierarchies that are evident in many Bible films from the post–World War II period.


Critique ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol n° 795-796 (8) ◽  
pp. 624
Author(s):  
Jean-Loup Bourget
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Ligeia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol N° 77-80 (2) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Tag Gallagher ◽  
Gérard Pécorari ◽  
Patricia-Laure Thivat
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