The concept of censorship associates with authoritarian regime; however, it is not unequivocally, i.e., also in a democratic country there may be obstacles that create barriers for artistic ...self-expression and limit the artistic process by stimulating the topicality of self-censorship. Also, in Latvia the parliamentary democracy creates legal framework that formally excludes the ideological censorship of creative process and artistic creativity. Simultaneously, the society’s attitude towards artistic expressions, as well as dominant ideologic values among various groups of society and within the country may create critically condemnatory or supportive framework for certain expressions of art. The main aim of this article is to find out how the artists of today comprehend and explain manifestations of artistic freedom, censorship, and self-censorship in Latvia nowadays. Eighteen in-depth interviews involving the Latvian directors of the films were conducted in the framework of FARP “The art of nationalism: Social solidarity and exclusion in contemporary Latvia”. In general, the study (1) reveals multi-shaped manifestations of censorship in the creative activities and dominant conditions in which it forms; (2) allows to follow up the sources of self-censorship for artistic activity, and (3) draws conclusions on the conditions and barriers of creative freedom in Latvian society.
The article presents an overview of the books by Danish (Brian Russell Graham), Indonesian (Harijono Djojodihardjo), Romanian (Liviu Warter) and Irish (Sean Crosson) authors. The books cover the ...problems of the relationship between national culture and innovation (H. Djojodihardjo), national culture and business ethics (I. Warter, L. Warter), national and popular culture (S. Crosson), as well as national culture as the basis for national identity (B.R. Graham). The review takes into account the appeal of the researchers to the Russian national cultural experience and its influence on the policy in the field of mass culture, innovation and economic cooperation. The abstracts from the articles and books are supported by the data from the Google Trends analytical service for the search queries of the Internet users such as “business ethics”, “cinema”, “general culture” and “innovation”. The correlation of scientific findings in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and public interest in certain topics makes it possible to show the popularity and significance of the chosen issue, to clarify the national and geographical features of the content under study.
What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs ...towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West? Myth of the Western re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions. Taking a number of critical-theoretical and philosophical approaches, Matthew Carter applies them to prominent forms of frontier historiography. He also considers the historiographic element of the Western by exploring the different ways in which the genre has responded to the issues raised by the frontier. Carter skilfully argues that the genre has - and continues to reveal - the complexities and contradictions at the heart of US society. With its clear analyses of and intellectual challenges to the film scholarship that has developed around the Western over a 65-year period, this book adds new depth to our understanding of specific film texts and of the genre as a whole - a welcome resource for students and scholars in both Film Studies and American Studies.
Film je kao tradicionalni medij i nakon sto i dvadeset godina svojeg postojanja još uvijek atraktivan, pogotovo među mladima. Njegova je uloga kod adolescenata koji prolaze proces oblikovanja ...vlastitog identiteta iznimno važna jer zrcali, ali i oblikuje kulturu, društvo, vrijednosti te moralne stavove. Usto, filmovi služe kao modeli identifikacije i projekcije, mogu utjecati na razvoj empatije, kreativnosti, memorije itd. U ovom radu govori se posebno o vrednovanju filmske umjetnosti u katoličkom okruženju, tematizira se film kao teološko mjesto govora u Bogu i njegova odgojno-didaktička uloga u katehizaciji. Na temelju rezultata filmskih preferencija hrvatskih adolescenata, koje su proizašle iz istraživanja provedenog među hrvatskim srednjoškolcima u 2020. godini, donosi se njihova analiza kako bi se istaknuli neki odgojno-obrazovni i evangelizacijski izazovi. Naposljetku se ukazuje na činjenicu da odabir filma u svrhu religijsko-pedagoške i katehetske prakse pripada središnjem pitanju katehetske metodologije, a u svrhu praktičke primjene rezultata istraživanja i njihove elaboracije. Na kraju rada donose se neke konkretne metodičko-didaktičke preporuke za odabir i analizu filma.
As a traditional media, the film is still attractive, especially among the youth, even after a hundred and twenty years since it was invented. Its role is extremely important among adolescents who are going through the process of forming their own identity because it mirrors but also forms culture, society, values, and moral attitudes. Apart from that, films serve as models of identification and projection, they can have an influence on the development of empathy, creativity, memory, etc. In this article, the authors discuss the valuation of film art in the Catholic environment and thematize film as a theological place of discourse on God, as well as its upbringing-educational role in catechization. On the basis of results of film preferences of Croatian adolescents, discerned through a study carried out among Croatian secondary school pupils in 2020, the article analyses these preferences in order to point out some upbringing-educational and evangelization challenges. The authors also point out that opting for the film for the purpose of religious-pedagogical and catechetical practice is an important issue of catechetical methodology and represents a practical application of the results of the aforementioned study and their elaboration. At the end of the article, some concrete methodical didactic recommendations for selecting and analyzing film are offered.
In this article, I undertake a close reading of Isabel Rocamora's 2015 film installation Faith, which shows, on three separate screens, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim men simultaneously performing ...their morning prayers in three distinct, historically significant sites in the Judean desert. Setting the cinematic and installation properties of the work into dialogue with a number of philosophers (Levinas, Derrida, Cavell), film theorists (Bazin, Deleuze, Chion), and art theorists (Fried, Elkins), I argue that it adopts a postsecular approach to religious pluralism. That is, without being a religious artwork, Faith nevertheless deconstructs the conventional liberal secular approach of universalist neutrality towards inter-religious relations and instead configures the relations between the human figures in the work according to an alterity that requires not cognitive certainty but inter-human faith. The work is thereby consistent with Derrida's notion that tout autre est tout autre (every other is wholly other).
Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds ...to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the way filmmakers developed and audiences encountered ideas about race, identity, politics, and community outside the borders of theatrical cinema. The contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, and church films, as well as other forms of nontheatrical filmmaking.
In modern film art design, there are different kinds of art requirements to be involved. These artistic requirements embody our profound national culture in modern film art, making the organic ...combination of art and culture, which in turn achieves the promotion of art and provides more excellent traits for the development of modern film visual communication. At the same time, modern film design draws on traditional art from five aspects: composition, perspective, image, color and allegory, and applies its advantages and strengths completely to the process of modern film art design. Among them, the most important is the modern color and composition design. To illustrate the art of visual communication in film art cannot be separated from color and composition. In this paper, we analyze the dynamic changes of higher-order aberrations of near-eye and ortho-eye groups over time, find the turning point of the dynamic changes of higher-order aberrations, and compare the differences between the dynamic changes of higher-order aberrations of the two groups by interaction analysis. By analyzing the application of modern color and composition design in film, it is concluded that the art effect of modern film is inseparable from the design elements, and the color and composition influence caused by the product of the combination of design elements for human senses.
The art of synthesis is one of the most important pillars in cinematic art, as the director combines cinematic shots to produce a third shot in the mind of the recipient by various methods such as ...mental synthesis, analogous synthesis, rhythm synthesis, parallel synthesis and repetitive synthesis, Repetitive synthesis is one of the most important techniques in cinematic montage. Through repetitive synthesis, the director is able to link the shots and scenes with each other, and this is what we see in the poetic imagery of Adnan Al-Sayegh when he links the visual images to each other, especially those images that manifest the manifestations of grief and misery following the misfortunes that befell in His homeland. This study follows the descriptive-analytical approach, to show the repeated synthesis in the folds of the goldsmith's poems with the intention of determining the goal that the poet aims to by repeating the specific shot in the poem, whether the shot is audio or visual, to confirm a specific idea and from this point of view this research revolves around several main axes ; Repeat Single Shot, Repeat Sound Shot, Repeat Cinematic Image Dimension.
Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume ...identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation.
Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy, Thomas Leitch considers how the creators of short silent films attempted to give them the weight of literature, what sorts of fidelity are possible in an adaptation of sacred scripture, what it means for an adaptation to pose as an introduction to, rather than a transcription of, a literary classic, and why and how some films have sought impossibly close fidelity to their sources.
After examining the surprisingly divergent fidelity claims made by three different kinds of canonical adaptations, Leitch's analysis moves beyond literary sources to consider why a small number of adapters have risen to the status of auteurs and how illustrated books, comic strips, video games, and true stories have been adapted to the screen. The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review.
Includes well-known and fresh voices of essay film practice from around the world . Features examples from essay film practice as research. Contains interviews with non-western filmmakers, in-depth ...case studies of global essay film practice and self-reflexive essays by scholars and film practitioners .
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