-------- Original Message -------- Subject: new JUMP CUT online Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:08:26 -0600 From: Chuck Kleinhans <[log in to unmask]> Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media has a new issue online: No. 47. http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/ Essays on feature fictions include discussions of the martial arts in KILL BILL by a professional fight director, Clint Eastwood's environmental politics, a South African version of PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, and Gibson's THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. There is also a special section on documentary theory, new documentaries, and "contemporary events" fictions. Essays include: --a pathbreaking new monograph on conceptualizing AIDS, --reflections from practice by a photographer and filmmaker on how to frame images to capture spontaneous occurrences, --a study of heartland misjustice in the prosecution of working class, goth youth in two PARADISE LOST films, --a philosopher's look at human frailty and the "institutions of killing" in Errol Morris' MR. DEATH and THE FOG OF WAR, --an analysis of ELEPHANT and why Gus Van Sant chose to depict high school shootings in a lyrical fiction, --a look at how docudramas deal with ethical issues in the TV Movie of the Week, SAVING JESSICA LYNCH --a critical look at FAHRENHEIT 9/11. --Internet links for analyzing the photos from Abu Ghraib. Check it out at: http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/ Chuck Kleinhans Associate Professor Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University 1920 Campus Drive Evanston IL 60208 USA office: 847-491-2255; 847-491-7315 co-editor, JUMPCUT: A Review of Contemporary Media www.ejumpcut.org ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html