Two x FRAMES: 'The Political Western Beyond Cold War Frontiers' and 'Promotional Materials'

Film scholar Tim Bergfelder giving a talk which is embedded at the latest issue of Frames

Today, Film Studies For Free rounds up two, very fine, 2013 issues of the e journal Frames. Feast your eyes on all the links below.

The latest issue on the political western is just out. The earlier issue, on film and television promotional materials, will form part of a long in preparation bumper FSFF collection on paratextuality that will now appear in the new year, along with other (very long in preparation) posts: on the magnificence of Caboose, a film studies publisher with a marvellous attitude to freely available content; on découpage; and on many other topics.... 2013 has proved to be just too short a year to cram all this in.

There's still one more FSFF entry to go before the holidays, though, so please look out for that on Monday. In the meantime, happy solstice!


Frames, Issue 4, December 2013: Commies and Indians: The Political Western Beyond Cold War Frontiers 

 

Editorial

Letter from the Editor By Heath Iverson

Feature articles

• Csikós, Puszta, Goulash: Hungarian Frontier Imaginaries in ‘The Wind Blows under Your Feet’ and ‘Brady’s Escape’ By Sonja Simonyi
• Appropriating the “Other” for the Cold War Struggle: DEFA’s Depiction of Native Americans in its Indianerfilme By Jennifer Michaels
• Partisan ‘Realism’: Representations of Wartime Past and State-Building Future in the Cinema of Socialist Yugoslavia By Greg de Cuir, Jr.
• A Third Western(?): Genre and the Popular/Political in Latin America By Chelsea Wessels
• The Birth of the Romanian Western By Marian Tutui
• The Balkan Westerns of the Sixties By Sergey Lavrentiev
• The DEFA Indianerfilm as Artifact of Resistance By Evan Torner

Video Supplement

• Commies and Indians Symposium: Jonathan Owen on Czech Westerns
• Commies and Indians Symposium: Tim Bergfelder on the Euro-Western and on Collaborations across the Iron Curtain

P.O.V.

• Yugoslav (Hi)stories: a country which no longer exists, except on film By Ana Grgic and Raluca Iacob

Frames, Issue 3, May 2013: Promotional Materials 

 

Editorial

• Letter from the Editors By Kathleen Scott and Sarah Soliman
• Introduction: Still Coming Soon? Studying Promotional Materials By Keith M. Johnston 

Feature articles

• Working in the World of Propaganda: Early Trailers & Modern Discourses of Social Control By Frederick Greene
• The Advertising Director as Coming Attraction: Television Advertising as Hollywood Business Card in the Age of Digital Distribution By Leon Gurevitch
• ‘Action… Suspense… Emotion!’: The Trailer as Cinematic Performance By Daniel Hesford
• Imaging a Female Filmmaker: The Director Personas of Nishikawa Miwa and Ogigami Naoko By Colleen Laird
• Aspirational paratexts: the case of “quality openers” in TV promotion By Enrica Picarelli
• ‘Glamorous Bait for an Amorous killer!’: How post-war audiences were Lured by Lucille and the working-girl investigator By Ellen Wright
• DVD Special Features and Stage Greetings: Whose Promotional Material Is It Anyway? By Jonathan Wroot

Interviews

• Interview with Shaun Farrington By Keith M. Johnston
• Interview with Frederick L. Greene By Keith M. Johnston
• Interview with Esther Harris By Keith M. Johnston
• Interview with Paul N. Lazarus By Keith M. Johnston
• Interview with Bill Seymour By Keith M. Johnston
• Interview with Anthony Sloman By Keith M. Johnston