All posts tagged: Bruno Guarana

On July 18th, Film Quarterly Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) joined Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) for a conversation about her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). In this exciting new work of digital media scholarship, Hassapopoulou expands the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions. This webinar, moderated by outgoing Film Quarterly editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime, is now available on FQ's YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/93s6zqmVY9M, and is embedded below. Guaraná's print interview with Hassapopoulou appears in FQ's Summer 2024 issue (Volume 77, Number 4). It is available online at www.filmquarterly.org together with a link to the introduction of Interactive Cinema, courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press.

Page Views Live: Interactive Cinema – A Conversation with Bruno Guaraná and Marina Hassapopoulou moderated by Rebecca Prime

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On July 18th, Film Quarterly Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) joined Marina Hassapopoulou (New York University) for a conversation about her new book Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). In this exciting new work of digital media scholarship, Hassapopoulou expands the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions. This webinar, moderated by outgoing Film Quarterly editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime, is now available on FQ’s YouTube Channel (https://youtu.be/93s6zqmVY9M), and is embedded below. Guaraná’s print interview with Hassapopoulou appears in FQ’s Summer 2024 issue (Volume 77, Number 4). It is available online at http://www.filmquarterly.org together with a link to the introduction of Interactive Cinema, courtesy of the University of Minnesota Press.

Interactive Cinema: A Conversation with Marina Hassapopoulou

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Interactive Cinema is not only a valiant effort to expand the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions, but also a plea for further attunement between scholarship and practices of (new) media preservation and remediation. More than documenting the existence of these diverse texts, Hassapopoulou offers in her analysis a reconsideration of film theory that disrupts its traditional ocularcentrism, and a recentering of a multisensorial viewser vacillating between different modes of interactivity, showing, after all, that “cinema has always been interactive” (15).

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Kartik Nair

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media publications continued this spring with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) and Kartik Nair (Temple University) about his new book Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror (University of California Press, 2024). Taking the materiality of the filmic image as a starting point for investigating gaps in the historical record, Nair brings a welcome spotlight to Indian cinema’s forgotten horror wave of the 1970s and 1980s. Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.

Seeing Things: A Conversation with Kartik Nair

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Directed by two members of family of filmmakers known as the Ramsay Brothers, pioneers of Indian horror cinema, the 1988 film Veerana (Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay) centers on the figure of the chudail, or witch, as she haunts the surroundings of a mansion. She seduces men while in womanly form, only to later reveal her horrific nature.

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Jie Li

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media publications continued this winter with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) and Jie Li (Harvard University) about her new book Cinematic Guerillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China (Columbia University Press, 2023).  This media history of the exhibition and reception of propaganda films during the first decades of the People’s Republic of China considers the ideology and practice of the “cinematic guerillas” who resisted Mao’s messages.  Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.

Cinematic Guerrillas: A Conversation with Jie Li

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Long before provisionally becoming the most important film market in the world, much of China’s territory lacked the infrastructure necessary to develop a sustainable film-exhibition network. Despite the lack of electricity in rural areas in the mid–twentieth century, the newly established socialist state spared no effort in bringing cinema to even the most remote of its villages.

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with D. Andy Rice

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications continued this Fall with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná and D. Andy Rice about his new book Political Camerawork: Documentary and the Lasting Impact of Reenacting Historical Trauma (Indiana University Press, 2023).  Building on his background as a nonfiction film director, producer, cinematographer, and editor, Rice investigates the emotional toll of historical reenactments and the challenges posed to documentary.  Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.

Political Camerawork A Conversation with D. Andy Rice

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The trailer for Meghan O’Hara and Mike Attie’s In Country (2014) opens with archival footage of the Vietnam War accompanied by a voice-over whose source is quickly revealed to be that of a man dressed in fatigues. The contrast between the grainy look of the archival footage and the crisp audio of the interview signals a dual temporality that is central to the film’s subject matter: an annual reenactment of the Vietnam War in the Oregon woods.

An image showing the webinar participants, Oliver Fuke, Bruno Guarana, B. Ruby Rich and Laura Mulvey

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Laura Mulvey and Oliver Fuke

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications continued July 11 with Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná in conversation with Laura Mulvey, and Oliver Fuke about the new edited volume The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation, ed. Oliver Fuke (Bloomsbury, 2023). The event was moderated by FQ editor and volume contributor B. Ruby Rich.

The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: A Conversation with Laura Mulvey and Oliver Fuke

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The first film directed by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen opens with a mime staging of the German Romantic poet Heinrich von Kleist’s tragedy Penthesilea. The nearly bare stage is shot by a fixed camera in an uninterrupted take that lasts over fifteen minutes, culminating in the suicide of Penthesilea, the Amazon warrior-queen, immediately after she kills her lover, Achilles.