Disorder: Joy Division Verevis, Constantine
Studies in documentary film,
01/2008, Letnik:
2, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Joy Division (2007) is the most recent of a group of feature and documentary films-including. 24 Hour Party People (2002), Control (2007) and Shadowplayers (2007)-tied to the legacy of Manchester's ...Factory Records and Ian Curtis and Joy Division. Actively promoted as a more authentic, emotionally deeper film than the Curtis biopic, Control, Grant Gee's Joy Division documentary puts forward the idea that the cult band Joy Division was inextricably linked to the physical and social history of the city of Manchester. This article draws a line through the do-it-yourself ethos of punk (and post-punk) to the Situationist International (and the latter's obsessions with psychogeography and drift) to provide a broad context for Gee's film, and the emotional and graphical landscapes of the music of Joy Division.
The discipline of film studies has, since the late 1960s and early 1970s, been a burgeoning academic and intellectual field of inquiry. This article seeks to provide a map of the local and ...international flows of Australian film theory and criticism. By tracing some key critical positions, personnel and institutions, it provides an account of the state of contemporary Australian film studies.The article falls into three parts. The first reflects upon the establishment of academic film studies in Australia, beginning with the 1970s and 1980s importation of screen theory. The second attends to a late 1980s and early 1990s recognition of the historical and cultural specificity of film (and television), and the associated turn to historical film studies. The third part looks at the institutionalisation of the discipline, to attend to some of the intellectual and pragmatic considerations shaping Australian film studies through the 1990s and beyond.
