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    • Editorial 

      Akser, Murat (Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2012)
      This issue of CINEJ focuses on issues ranging from Malian Cinema, Islam in Turkish cinema, Bergman, Mulholland Drive and sound in early Hollywood cinema.

    • Editorial 

      Akser, Murat (Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2013)
      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 ...

    • Memory, Identity and Desire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive 

      Akser, Murat (Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2012)
      This is a reading of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive through psychoanalytic approach of Lacan from the perspective of formation of fantasy and shifting identities. Lynch constructs his films consciously choosing his themes ...

    • Nation, Genre and Female Performance in Canadian Cinema 

      Akser, Murat (Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2013)
      This paper outlines a theory of style and performance in Canadian film based on geography, gender and genre. It is possible to form a theory of Canadian cinema based on theme-genre (strong women, nature as oppressor in ...

    • Reinvigorating Film Studies: An Immodest Proposal 

      Akser, Murat (Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2011)
      CINEJ Cinema Journal is a newcomer to the field of film studies. It is committed to publishing fresh and original research in the fields of film and media studies. The need for such a journal is result of emergence of fresh ...

    • Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear 

      Akser, Murat; Baybars, Banu (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023)
      This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments' fear of media and Turkish media's fear of government authority with respect to the development of press freedom over the long run ...

    • Return to Reality: Towards A More Tactile Cognition of Film Theory 

      Akser, Murat (Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2012)
      Film theory has lost itself in the woods among debates of the mind and the senses. Ther are those who are interested in a more tactile sense of the real in film studies. This issue of CINEJ focuses on the documentary truth ...