Issue 22.2 (Summer 2024)


Articles

Hand Painted Movie Stills: A Study of the Aesthetics of the Cinematographic Space in Painted Scenography 

By Dario Lanza

EXCERPT: TBD.

Futures Past and Present: History, Architecture and Dystopia in Brazil (1985) and the Hunger Games series (2012-15)

By Jonathan Stubbs and Marko Kiessel

EXCERPT: The visual aspect of film heightens the presentism of science fiction dystopias, and it is here that architecture plays a role. As we will show in our analysis of Brazil and the Hunger Games series, the production design of the presentist future draws on the ‘dead styles’ of historical architecture, quoting and incorporating them into purpose-built studio sets and models constructed in miniature or rendered in virtual environments. In addition, these films draw directly on architecture in the real world, selecting and reworking built environments to stand in for spaces of the future.

E Pluribus Unum: Toward a Poetics of the TV Anthology

By Pablo Castrillo and Alberto N. García

EXCERPT: TBD.

Click here for Castrillo and Garcia’s tie-in blog post, “Frame Shifters and the Tinder of Television”

The Performance of Labor and Downward Mobility in Steven Soderbergh’s Recession Trilogy (2009-2012): The Girlfriend Experience, Haywire, and Magic Mike

By R. Colin Tait

EXCERPT: TBD.

Reshaping Production Practices: European Film Festivals, New Indonesian Cinema, and the Creative Producer

By Thomas Alexander Charles Barker

EXCERPT: TBD.

Walkman Time Machine

By Lisa Wells Jacobson 

EXCERPT: TBD.

Mediating the Elemental: An Immaterialist Ethics for Ecomaterialist Media Theory

By Ludo de Roo

EXCERPT: TBD.

In and Around Parasite: Two Tracks to the Establishment of Bong Joon-ho as a Global Auteur

By Jihoon Kim

EXCERPT: TBD.

2023 SCMS Queer & Trans Caucus Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize

TBD


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