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Film International (16516826); 09/01/2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010) Director Tim Burton Production Company Walt Disney Pictures Screenplay Linda Woolverton Producer Jennifer Todd Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski Production Designer Chris Lebenzon Starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway Runtime 109 Minutes Date Night (2010) Director Shawn Levy Production Company Twentieth Century Fox Screenplay Josh Klausner Producer Tom McNulty Cinematographer Dean Semler Production Designer David Gropman Starring Tina Fey, Steve Carrel, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson Runtime 88 Minutes Iron Man 2 (2010) Director Jon Favreau Screenplay Justin Theroux Producer Matthew Libatique Cinematographer John Debney Editor Richard Pearson Production Designer Dan Lebental Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke Runtime 124 minutes Robin Hood (2010) Director Ridley Scott Screenplay Brian Helgeland Producer Brian Grazer Cinematographer Marc Strentenfeld Production Design Pietro Scalia Starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong Behind the Burly Q (2010) USA Associate Producer Donnalee Austen Film Editing Evan Finn Camera Sheri Hellard Executive Music Supervisor Joel Sill Executive Producer Robert Zemeckis Produced by Sheri Hellard, Jackie Levine Written, Produced and Directed by Leslie Zemeckis Voice-Over Jacquie Barnbrook, Ron Bottita, Cate Cohen, Matthew Henerson, Amber Gainey Meade Music Clearance by Lisa Bauman Wasiak Music Coordinator Marylou Eales Production Company First Run Features Runtime 98 minutes
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Journal of Popular Culture; 08/01/2010
The article examines women's domestic labor within the home and looks at the roles domestic work and consumption play in constructing racialized identities for African American female domestic workers and their female employers. The author uses the 1981 film "The Incredible Shrinking Woman," directed by Joel Schumacher, to examine these racialized distinctions within a film and the larger culture. The representation of the instability of the white body in the film is examined. The author also explores how the film predicted the global market in female domestic workers which has emerged in contemporary times.
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Post Script; 07/01/2010
The article takes a look at films which suggest the embedding of American Indian history lessons. Films from U.S. and Canadian productions as well as documentary and narrative fiction films such as "Imagining Indians" by Victor Masayesva Jr., "Skins," by Chris Eyre and "Tkaronto," by Shane Belcourt were chosen where each film embedded cultural and historical information to educate the viewer and destabilize notions of fixed genre. It concludes that Native American films bridge a gap between fiction and reality and reach to both implied and real viewers.
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Journal of Popular Culture; 04/01/2010
The authors discuss the television program "Desperate Housewives." They mention the validity of concerns raised by critics of the show such as that it is inappropriate for children and the main characters are flawed and petty. However, the authors believe that even though the subject matter concerns the dark side of the human condition and the show is graphic in content, it can be considered redemptive media. They mention that the characters are polyphonic and that the storylines concern the notions of human connection and community.
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Film International (16516826); 07/01/2010
Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, Bhaskar Sarkar, (2009) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 384 pp., 64 illustrations, ISBN-10 0822343932 (hbk), $94.25, ISBN-13 978–0822344117 (pbk), $25.95 Hong Kong New Wave Cinema: 1978–2000, Pak Tong Cheuk, (2008) Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, 262 pp., ISBN 9781841501482 (pbk), $40.00 For Ever Godard, Michael Temple, James S. Williams and Michael Witt (eds), (2004) London: Black Dog Publishing, 461 pp., ISBN 1901033694 (pbk), £29.95, $45.00 Chris Marker: La Jetée (One Work Series), Janet Harbord, (2009) London: Afterall Books, 112 pp., ISBN-10 1846380480 (pbk), £10.99
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Television & New Media; 07/01/2010
This essay focuses on U.S. broadcasting to Cuba, specifically the development and programming of TV Martí, a channel whose ostensible aim is to undermine the communist Cuban government and promote democratic transition. Since TV Martí's first broadcast in 1990, Cuba has successfully jammed the signal, and the question of why the United States should continue to fund a station with no viewers has been the subject of ongoing discussion. Issues of reception have so overdetermined the debate as to obviate analysis of the productions themselves. This article argues that the existence of TV Martí is best understood in relation to Cuban exile nationalism. Fundamental confusion exists on the issues of what TV Martí is supposed to represent and for whom it is created, raising questions not only about its effectiveness as propaganda meant to interpellate Cuban nationals-if there are any watching-but also about what is at stake in exporting the exilic national imaginary.
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Apalachee Review; 10/01/2011
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Apalachee Review; 10/01/2011
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Afro-Hispanic Review; 03/01/2011
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Studies in American Naturalism; 06/01/2011
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CEA Critic; 01/01/2011
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Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative & Emergent Religion; 11/01/2011
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Journal of American Studies; 05/01/2011
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Journal of the American Oriental Society; 07/01/2011
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Narrative Inquiry; 07/01/2011
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American Historical Review; 12/01/2011
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Modern Austrian Literature; 10/01/2011
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North Carolina Historical Review; 10/01/2011
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Social History; 11/01/2011
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Journal of Southern History; 11/01/2011
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