All posts tagged: Page Views

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).

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.

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.

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.

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Jean Ma

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications continued on March 6th with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) and Jean Ma (Stanford University) about her new book, At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators (University of California Press, 2022). Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief B. Ruby Rich.

Queer African Cinemas: A Conversation with Lindsey B. Green-Simms

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The first romantic sequence in Rafiki, by the Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu, opens with a close-up of a pair of sneaker-clad feet on a skateboard, its wheels thumping along the asphalt. The feet belong to the teenage Makena, who arrives at her friend Ziki’s apartment building to take her out around town for the day. After Ziki’s mother answers the door, an elliptical cut thrusts the viewer into a montage sequence in which the two teenage girls sit close together on a tuk-tuk ride around the streets of Nairobi.

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Lúcia Nagib

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Film Quarterly’s webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications, continued on April 2nd with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná and Professor Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading) about her groundbreaking new book, Realist Cinema as World Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), introduced by FQ editor-in-chief B. Ruby Rich.