Framework journal

Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media

Edited by Drake Stutesman

Framework is an international, peer reviewed journal dedicated to theoretical and historical work on the diverse and current trends in media and film scholarship. The journal’s multicultural coverage, interdisciplinary focus, and the high caliber of its writers contributes to important interconnections between regional cinemas, practioners, academics, critics, and students.

Framework is committed to publishing articles from interdisciplinary and global perspectives.

In the latest issue of Framework:

CONTENTS

  • Drake Stutesman – Editorial
  • Philippa Gates – The Three Sam Spades: The Shifting Model of American Masculinity in the Three Films of The Maltese Falcon
  • TRIBUTES
    • Kwate Nee Owoo – The Language of Real Life: Interview with Ousmane Sembène
    • Samba Gadjigo – Art for Man’s Sake: A Tribute to Ousmane Sembène 31
    • Astrid Söderbergh Widding – A Full Integration with Film History: A Tribute to Ingmar Bergman 37
    • Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes – Antonioni and the Place of Modernity: A Tribute 43
  • DOSSIER ON MORPHING REALITIES – The Current Status of the Real in Film and Television
    • Nitzan Ben Shaul – Introduction
    • Michael Renov – Family Secrets: Alan Berliner’s Nobody’s Business and the (American) Jewish Autobiographical Film 55
    • Jérôme Bourdon – Self-Despotism: Reality Television and the New Subject of Politics 66
    • Yael Munk – The Postcolonial Function of Television’s Virtual Space in ’90s Israeli Cinema 83
    • Raz Yosef – Phantasmatic Losses: National Traumas, Masculinity, and Primal Scenes in Israeli Cinema—Walk on Water 93
    • Thomas Elsaesser – Absence as Presence, Presence as Parapraxis: On Some Problems of Representing “Jews” in the New German Cinema 106
    • Raya Morag – Chronic Trauma, the Sound of Terror, and Current Israeli Cinema 121
  • Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni – History's Broken Wings: "Narrative Paralysis" as Resistance to History in Amos Gitai's Film Kedma
  • Laura Podalsky – The Young, the Damned, and the Restless: Youth in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
  • REVIEWS
    • Book Review
    • New York Film Festival