Papers by Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Quarterly Review of Film and Video A Review of “A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and Ameri... more Quarterly Review of Film and Video A Review of “A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film” Ed. Murray Pomerance, Reviewed by Kyle Henry, Northwestern University
Published online: 08 May 2013. To cite this article: Kyle Henry (2013) A Review of “A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer
and American Film”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 30:4, 329-335, DOI:
10.1080/10509208.2011.648094
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2011.648094
Dealing with art considered as avant-garde, the One Work collection operates on the premise that ... more Dealing with art considered as avant-garde, the One Work collection operates on the premise that “a single work of art
can literally transform, however modestly, the way we look at and understand the world” (preface page). If form follows function, Demos presents the reader with a book format
that is as challenging and removed from context as its subject—a film that remixes images and music from the WonderWoman series and Bee Gees music from the 1970s. The author praises the video’s contemporaneity, noting that the work is on display at the permanent collection of New York City’s Museum of Modern Art.
In the period leading up to and following September 11, 2001, a number of cultural critics have r... more In the period leading up to and following September 11, 2001, a number of cultural critics have recognized what Umberto Eco calls "Ur-Fascism," a culture of paranoia that values sacrifice, obedience, the cult of the hero, and the doctrine of constant warfare. As Eco observes: "Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality)" (59).
Book Review:Hollywood Androgyny Rebecca Bell-Metereau; Speaking of Soap Operas Robert C. Allen
Signs, 1986
the potential for solidarity across the boundaries of time, as well as those of class, race, and ... more the potential for solidarity across the boundaries of time, as well as those of class, race, and nation. Though not explicitly, there is a call for a feminist paradigm that confronts the limitations and exclusions of hegemonic Eurocentric feminism that, though dying, can be the source from which something new grows.
s 2007 film Iron Ladies of Liberia opens with dramatic footage of the civil war that raged for fo... more s 2007 film Iron Ladies of Liberia opens with dramatic footage of the civil war that raged for fourteen years, and in the word of narrator Siatta Scott Johnson, "stole my childhood and left so many of us with nothing." But this documentary is not a rehash of past wrongs perpetrated on the people of Liberia by exiled president, Charles Taylor, and his government. Rather, Johnson's film focuses on the presidency of eponymous iron lady, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, whose 2005 victory over odds-on favorite George Weah, Liberia's well-known soccer star, surprised everyone. Covering the first year of Liberia and the African continent's first female president, journalist Johnson details the challenges Sirleaf's administration faces in governing a country with a 90% unemployment rate, no running water or electricity, and a debt thirty times the national budget. In spite of these staggering problems, Sirleaf begins boldly, appointing women as Ministers of Commerce, Finance, Justice, and Chief of Police, because women were not connected to the kind of corruption and violence associated with of many of the men from Taylor's previous administration.
Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture edited by Laurie Ouellette and Susan Murray (New York University Press, 2004
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2006
Review: Action and Adventure Cinema, edited by Yvonne Tasker. London: Routledge, 2004
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2007
Iron Ladies of Liberia (2007) (review
Tarkovsky, edited by Nathan Dunne. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2009
Nathan Dunne's collection of essays, Tarkovsky, is a big beautiful coffee-table book, with a... more Nathan Dunne's collection of essays, Tarkovsky, is a big beautiful coffee-table book, with a dazzling array of scholarly and artistic responses to the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. The appearance of the volume constitutes one of its primary strengths but also a possible ...
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Papers by Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Published online: 08 May 2013. To cite this article: Kyle Henry (2013) A Review of “A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer
and American Film”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 30:4, 329-335, DOI:
10.1080/10509208.2011.648094
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2011.648094
can literally transform, however modestly, the way we look at and understand the world” (preface page). If form follows function, Demos presents the reader with a book format
that is as challenging and removed from context as its subject—a film that remixes images and music from the WonderWoman series and Bee Gees music from the 1970s. The author praises the video’s contemporaneity, noting that the work is on display at the permanent collection of New York City’s Museum of Modern Art.