CONTENTS

Drake Stutesman

Editorial

 

ESSAY

Rosalind Galt

The Animal Logic of Contemporary Greek Cinema 

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DOSSIER: French Cinema at the Margins: Forgotten Sites, Practices, and Discourses, 1920–1960 

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Eric Smoodin, Guest Editor

Introduction: French Cinema at the Margins 

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Annie Fee

Cinephiles, Criminals, and Children: Discourses and Practices
of Cinema Education in 1920s Paris 

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Brian R. Jacobson

Toward a History of French Ecocinema: Nature in Dimitri Kirsanoff’s Modernity 

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Jennifer Wild

For a Concrete Aesthetics: Against Avant-Garde Films c. 1930 

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Sabine Haenni

“To Show the People in Paris How We Live Here”: Working-Class
Representation, Paul Carpita, and Film History 

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Eric Smoodin

“The Last Amateurs of Pure Cinema”: Ciné-Clubs and French Film
Culture, 1930–1945 

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ESSAY
Priyadarshini Shanker
Star Gazing via Documentary 

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DOSSIER: The Fan as Doppelgänger
 

Anupama Kapse and Meheli Sen, Guest Editors

Introduction 

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Monika Mehta

Fan and its Paratexts

 

Neepa Majumdar

Embodiment and Stardom in Shahrukh Khan’s Fan

 

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya

Doubling Offscreen and Onscreen: Queering the Star and the Fan in Fan

 

Meheli Sen

The Mirror of Desire: Queerness, Fan, and the Riddles of Paheli

 

Anupama Kapse

Double Trouble: SRK, Fandom, and Special Effects 

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Priyadarshini Shanker

Interview with Manu Anand, Director of Photography of Fan

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INTERVIEW
Jenelle Troxell
Neither Day Nor Night: Peggy Ahwesh’s Palestinian Essays 

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EDITORIAL

 

 

This double volume, Framework 58 1 & 2, houses a collection of essays and interviews that looks at issues that may seem peripheral but, in fact, are shown to have a dynamic place in culture. The opening essay, Rosalind Galt’s “ The Animal Logic of Contemporary Greek Cinema,” argues that the use of animals, either real or enacted, in a number of current Greek films reflects, as she describes it, “subjectivity, power, and social relations.” In many ways the separate parts of Framework 58 look at culture in the same light. French cinema’s active “margins” are discussed in electrifying detail, in the dossier French Cinema at the Margins: Forgotten Sites, Practices, and Discourses, 1920–1960, guest edited by Eric Smoodin, covering subjects around cine-clubs, education, documentary, and more. A second dossier, The Fan as Doppelgänger, guest edited by Anupama Kapse and Meheli Sen, centers on a single film, the 2016 Fan, directed by Maneesh Sharma and starring India’s superstar, Shah Rukh Khan. The film is situated as a mirror, as is Khan, of India, and the Indian fan is revealed, in many ways, as a special part of Indian culture. An interview with Fan’s cameraman, Manu Anand, brings an insider’s point of view. This dossier is preceded by Priyadarshini Shanker’s close examination of Khan, known as SRK, in her “Star Gazing Via Documentary,” helping the reader to understand him in a broader light. Jenelle Troxell’s in-depth, long interview with video artist and lmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, replete with images from her work, reveals ways in which Ahwesh sees the practice of art and politics. 

 

– Drake Stutesman

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