Film International nr 1

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Film International # 1/ 2003:1

From Short Story to Film Autobiography: Intermedial variations un Ingmar Bergman’s Writings and Films.
Maaret Koskinen presents unique material from the early beginnings of Bergman’s life and career using the director’s private archive.

The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Auterism in the New Hollywood.
Jon Lewis maps the two key filmmakers role in Hollywood’s march from renaissance to blockbuster resurrection.

Genre Films as Cultural Myth.
Barry Keith Grant looks at genre films as comments on the cultural zeitgeist though they might be set in the past or in the future.

Nobody’s Perfect: Billy Wilder and Postwar American Cinema.
William Rothman takes a close look at four of the director’s films in search of an artistic signature.

Peter Watkins’ Culloden and the Alternative form in Historical Filmmaking.
Nicholas J Cull gives us the backstory of the landmark TV-production that launched the career of the controversial filmmaker.

The Last Battle: Peter Watkins on DVD.
IJohn R Cook explains the significance of the recent DVD releases of Culloden and The War Game.

Book reviews
Film reviews


Welcome to Film International

Although this is the first issue in the first volume of the bimonthly Film International, you are actually reading a thirty-year-old journal on cinema. In 1973 we started out as Filmhäftet (“film leaflet”), a Swedish quarterly focusing on the new academic subject of cinema studies. Though the circulation has been limited for many years, Filmhäftet has gained a wide recognition for publishing quality texts on cinema written by leading scholars from all over the world.
When we started out in the 1970s there were still many international cinema journals with similar ambitions. Now, most of them have disappeared – some due to financial hardship or distribution difficulties, others because they have transformed into glossy products suitable for an increasingly standardized media landscape. Making a cinema journal with the help of an international team of contributors, we therefore thought it seemed like a good time to also make it international in distribution.
Film International and the web site at www.filmint.nu aim to go beyond superficial distinctions of taste, beyond the notions of what is mainstream, cult or fashionable. Instead, we want to explain cinema culture and industry of the past as well as the present in a wider aesthetical, economical, social and political context – not only in essays but also in interviews, reviews and festival reports.
In this work we urgently need your support as a subscriber. We do not benefit from any affiliations with the big media corporations or have the means to compete with their products. Here you do not find any advertisements, favorable reports from the making of the latest blockbuster or any rave reviews readymade for quoting in marketing campaigns. What you do get is an independent cinema journal in the real sense of the word. Coming up this year is three issues (nos. 1, 3 and 5) with a mix of essays, and three special issues (nos. 2, 4 and 6) with guest editors. You will find more information at www.filmint.nu (click on: “Coming Attractions”).
Speaking of the web site, this is not your average collection of teaser excerpts just pushing to sell the next issue, but a continually updated journal in its own right. Here you can leaf through recent issues, read excerpts from recently published books and dissertations, get news on conferences and call for papers, check our contributors’ credits and search our archive. There are also many texts that you do not find in the printed edition. Furthermore, you can find information on coming issues (see above), buy older issues, find valuable Internet links, and subscribe to Film International. You get full access to everything. For free. Without advertisements, pop-up screens or other nuisances.
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Michael Tapper
Editor-in-chief

Filmhäftet

Publicerad: 2003-02-10

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