Abstract
This issue of CINEJ deals with approaches to films from different parts of the world ranging from India and China to Italy and Canada. Detailed analyses on films about Ghandi, docufictions on New York City, reflections of contemporary terror in historical cinema, Chinese Soft Film Movement, road movies, religious identification in films, documemory, Italian neorealism and female performance in Canadian cinema are presented in this issue.
Highlights
We have an international selection in this issue
Canet finds that both movies try to portray the same reality in the form of the little known Willets Point (Queens, New York City)
Donna Ong’s essay analyses how the 1930s Chinese “Soft Film” movement emerged and developed in film historiography, and finds it is a discursive formation by the Leftists to create an ideological enemy that serves to define its own group’s identity through a struggle against an “other”
Summary
We have an international selection in this issue. Ten articles touch upon a variety of subjects. The film universe that is out there and the scholarly publications sphere should have this dialogue across nations, continents and cultures (Akser 2011; Akser 2012). CSHN Murthy at al’s article on representations of Gandhi in cinema shed new light to the idea of looking at the same historical events and personalities from different perspectives.
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