The new summer 2011 issue of JUMP CUT: a review of contemporary media is out:

http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html

 a cornucopia of provocative essays on a wide range of films:

Hollywood

Avatar and disability
The Social Network and success
Luhrmann’s Australia: parody, excess, and myth
Brokeback Mountain and disciplining desire
Blogging about Sucker Punch
 
international cinema and globalization
 
Sembene’s Mooladé
Jia Zhangke, Still Life
Indonesian road movie
Makavejev’s editing strategies
The Nakba and Palestinian film
Laurent Cantet’s critique of neoliberalism
 
Women in production classrooms
Studies of film sound
 
Porn in a new media environment
Sexual innocence in film
Star Trek: gender and sexuality
Babysitters take charge
Horror, three key studies: Taxidermia, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Beginning, the child collective horror film
Critiques of the “Creative Economy” and “Creative Industries” models for media analysis
 
Reconsiderations of classics
 Bette Davis, Muslim captivity narratives, The Harder They Come, oil drilling films in the wake of the BP disaster, modern art in mainstream films

Now, free, online




Chuck Kleinhans

Co-editor, JUMP CUT: A Review of Contemporary Media
www.ejumpcut.org

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