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Cinephile 7.2, “Contemporary Realism,” is now available. Featuring original articles by Ivone Margulies and Richard Rushton, with beautiful 35mm photos by Hanahlie Beise, this issue resituates the notion of filmic realism for a post-film era. Available in Vancouver at Pulp Fiction Books, Mayfair News, Does Your Mother Know?, and the UBC Bookstore. If you prefer to have the issue delivered directly to your door, subscribe to the journal and receive the most recent issue and three forthcoming issues, plus a … Continue reading
During the past three decades, studying the voice has intrigued many film theorists and thinkers. Arguing that the cinematic image is an audiovisual space largely structured according to human body and voice, some scholars (Mary Ann Doane, Sarah Kozloff, and Michel Chion, among others) have been drawn to the various manifestations and mysterious connotations of the non-visualized voice. If off-screen voices foster a need to categorize and perhaps control their elusive nature, then the voice-over raises some challenging questions about … Continue reading
Cinephile 7.1, ‘Reassessing Anime,’ is now available! This issue features original articles by animation scholars Paul Wells and Philip Brophy, and illustrations by Vancouver-based artist Chloe Chan. Arguably one of the most impressive pop culture exports from Japan since the post-war era, anime still merits further inquiry, debate, and scholarship into its complex history, intricate meanings, and overall impact on film and visual culture. Purchase a copy of Cinephile 7.1 and discover some of the most contemporary insight into anime. … Continue reading
Realism appears to have reached a critical juncture in recent years: digital technology has all but usurped the photographic medium, rendering the indexical nature of photographic images obsolete (Doane 2002; Rodowick 2007); “reality” television and on-line exhibitionism have proliferated audiovisual culture, trivializing the fidelity of documentary realism and its particular mode of truth telling; and social realism has gradually detached itself from the socio-political convictions that once defined it, instead looking inward towards private/familial issues removed from the public sphere … Continue reading
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