Search
Search Results
-
Variations of Formalism, Modernism, Abstraction
The final chapter of this section explores various intersections of formalism, modernism and abstraction in comics scholarship. It begins by...
-
Formalism and Kunstwissenschaft: The “How” of the Image
Paraphrasing Aristotle’s dictum on being, “form” is said in many ways. The notion covers such an ample semantic spectrum that one might even doubt it...
-
Figurations of the Tool Agnostic
In this chapter, we sketch the outlines of the tool agnostic as figuration, a cultural trope for techno-social agency, that is particularly suited to...
-
The Post-Soul Cinema of Kasi Lemmons
In this edited volume, Kasi Lemmons, the first African-American woman auteur to solidly and steadily produce a full body of work in cinema—an oeuvre...
-
The Caveman’s Valentine: Fight the Towers that Be
This chapter examines Lemmons’ The Caveman’s Valentine through two theoretical frameworks. Hutcheon’s methodology of adaptation analysis aids the...
-
Modernism and Comics Revisited: Form and Fragmentation in Alan Moore’s “I Can Hear the Grass Grow”
The chapter “ Variations of Formalism, Modernism, Abstraction ” examined a shift in comics scholarship...
-
Framing the Feminine: Harriet, Constructing Black Female Subjectivity and Agency
This chapter examines director Kasi Lemmons’ process of composing, framing, and situating within the mise en scène the female characters in Harriet...
-
From Samizdat to New Sincerity. Digital Literature on the Russian-Language Internet
Digital literature on the Russian-language Internet includes a broad variety of phenomena, from online libraries to writers’ blogs, from hypertext to...
-
Nature
One can hardly look for universals in music, and then propose a provisional inventory, without questioning their naturalness. Putting aside spatial...
-
Introduction
The work of every auteur reflects a unique cinematic vision and narrative approach. Moreover, a personal theme resonates in their films, whether in...
-
Introduction
The curtain rises and the performance begins. “We are posting that labor is of central importance to art making,” argue artists Jessica Stockholder...
-
Interval: Trisha Brown and the Space Between Words
The final element in the score for Trisha Brown’s Locus (1975) proposes its method for movement. To make the score, Brown created an imagined cube in...
-
Aesthetics and Politics of China's Foreign Aid Buildings from the 1950s to 1970s
This chapter reviews the development of China'sChina foreign aid and foreign aid architecture from the 1950s to the 1970s, focusing on the...
-
Cold War Theatres: Theatre Criticism and the Institutional Matrix of Dramaturgy in Post-War Germany
In this chapter, I analyse the role of East and West German theatre in the incipient Cold War from 1945 to the mid-1950s. To this end, I propose an...
-
Why Does Comics Studies Need Art History (and Vice Versa)?
This introductory chapter examines the current state of Comics Studies and discusses how reintegrating art-historical methods would bring different...
-
Talk to Me: A Post-Soul Allegory
This chapter treats Talk to Me (2007) as a post-soul allegory, in which Lemmons pits the liberated and authentic blackness of Petey Greene against...
-
The Plot Thickens: 1919–1928
This chapter foregrounds the genre’s casting issues, with the inevitable problem for a sporting film, to select an actor able to carry the storyline...
-
Exceeding Authorized Access Under the CFAA
According to the conventional wisdom, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) generally prohibits retaliatory hackbacks, regardless of the nature of...
-
Convergence
Generally speaking, many of the analogies observed between data that one is reluctant to bring together are qualified as fortuitous convergences. The...
-
The Bordwell Regime: ‘A Different Kind of Fun’
Chapter 6, ‘The Bordwell Regime: “A Different Kind of Fun”’, examines the main activity of Cinepol: film study. The group’s approach to the study of...