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Frames Cinema JournalArticles – Frames Cinema Journal https://framescinemajournal.com Peer-Reviewed | Open Access | Annual Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:43:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://framescinemajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-FramesLogo-1-32x32.png Articles – Frames Cinema Journal https://framescinemajournal.com 32 32 So That You Can Live (1981) and the Crisis of the Welsh Landscape https://framescinemajournal.com/article/so-that-you-can-live-1981-and-the-crisis-of-the-welsh-landscape/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/so-that-you-can-live-1981-and-the-crisis-of-the-welsh-landscape/#respond Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:08:17 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5385 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2974 In the 1970s, the South Wales valleys began a long process of deindustrialisation. The service industries and mass unemployment began to dominate the working patterns of life from Neath in the West to Cwmbran in the East. [1] Cinema Action’s (CA) documentary So That You Can Live is set in these valleys and traces the experience of the working-class…

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]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/so-that-you-can-live-1981-and-the-crisis-of-the-welsh-landscape/feed/ 0 Geology of Ideas, Hydrology of Matter: Nature and Space in Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema https://framescinemajournal.com/article/geology-of-ideas-hydrology-of-matter-nature-and-space-in-abbas-kiarostamis-cinema/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/geology-of-ideas-hydrology-of-matter-nature-and-space-in-abbas-kiarostamis-cinema/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:53:50 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5492 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2967 Introduction Abbas Kiarostami’s second film, Recess (1972), is a short film that follows a schoolboy who, after kicking a group of children’s ball, is chased and forced to take an unfamiliar route home. He ends up on the outskirts, eventually reaching a highway. Already in this early film, the themes of getting lost, the struggle to find one’s way…

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]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/geology-of-ideas-hydrology-of-matter-nature-and-space-in-abbas-kiarostamis-cinema/feed/ 0 Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation https://framescinemajournal.com/article/google-mapping-blow-up-a-desktop-remediation/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/google-mapping-blow-up-a-desktop-remediation/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:54:29 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5540 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2997 This desktop documentary (https://vimeo.com/1121241319) retraces the London filming locations of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) via Google Maps Street View and satellite technology. In the film, protagonist Thomas (David Hemmings) is a fashion photographer living in Notting Hill at the height of the “Swinging London” scene. On a whim…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/google-mapping-blow-up-a-desktop-remediation/feed/ 0 Documentary Meets Art Project: Remembering Post-3.11 Territories in The Double Layered Town (Haruka Komori and Natsumi Seo, 2019) https://framescinemajournal.com/article/documentary-meets-art-project-remembering-post-3-11-territories-in-the-double-layered-town-haruka-komori-and-natsumi-seo-2019/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/documentary-meets-art-project-remembering-post-3-11-territories-in-the-double-layered-town-haruka-komori-and-natsumi-seo-2019/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:54:54 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5416 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2978 3.11, also known in Japan as “The Great East Japan Earthquake”, refers to the triple disaster that occurred in March 2011 mainly in Japan’s Tōhoku (northeastern) region: a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami of 30 metres in height in some areas and a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, leading to long-term contamination…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/documentary-meets-art-project-remembering-post-3-11-territories-in-the-double-layered-town-haruka-komori-and-natsumi-seo-2019/feed/ 0 Mapping Roma https://framescinemajournal.com/article/mapping-roma/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/mapping-roma/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:54:57 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5543 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2996 https://criticalcommons.org/view?m=3klHibbO8 Roma (2018) is a film about space and memory. Its very name – never directly mentioned throughout 135-minute runtime – refers to a neighbourhood in Mexico City where director Alfonso Cuarón grew up and where much of the plot unfolds. To this end, the film treads the tightly wound lines of…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/mapping-roma/feed/ 0 Arboreal: Multispecies Industries of Forest Ecology and Documentary Filmmaking as Art of Attunement https://framescinemajournal.com/article/arboreal-multispecies-industries-of-forest-ecology-and-documentary-filmmaking-as-art-of-attunement/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/arboreal-multispecies-industries-of-forest-ecology-and-documentary-filmmaking-as-art-of-attunement/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:55:28 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5521 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2994 Figure 1: Film still from Arboreal Introduction It’s November, three in the afternoon, a violet gloaming prematurely hovering around the edges of the day. Within a copse of birch trees, I’m looking through the lens of a camera, aware of the rumble of a nearby burn, a stray bird-call. Peering more closely at intricate patterns of lichen…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/arboreal-multispecies-industries-of-forest-ecology-and-documentary-filmmaking-as-art-of-attunement/feed/ 0 Look At This Mountain, It Was Once Fire: Film Interventions in Visualising Oil at Teapot Dome https://framescinemajournal.com/article/look-at-this-mountain-it-was-once-fire-film-interventions-in-visualising-oil-at-teapot-dome/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/look-at-this-mountain-it-was-once-fire-film-interventions-in-visualising-oil-at-teapot-dome/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:55:31 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5355 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2966 By now I’ve come to intuit, in true Silmarillion style, that the universe came into being by way of song. [1] This is an elemental understanding of a reality which operates along paths of vibrations and sensations that give way to a melodic organisation orchestrated by our human society with all of its technologies, consciousnesses…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/look-at-this-mountain-it-was-once-fire-film-interventions-in-visualising-oil-at-teapot-dome/feed/ 0 Civilisational Melancholy and Temporalised Space in Contemplative Science Fiction Cinema: A Phenomenological Study of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Last and First Men https://framescinemajournal.com/article/civilisational-melancholy-and-temporalised-space-in-contemplative-science-fiction-cinema-a-phenomenological-study-of-johann-johannssons-last-and-first-men/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/civilisational-melancholy-and-temporalised-space-in-contemplative-science-fiction-cinema-a-phenomenological-study-of-johann-johannssons-last-and-first-men/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:55:54 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5507 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2968 Introduction Our current epoch is defined by permanent crisis, decay, and disintegration. Humanity faces many interrelated existential threats – ecological collapse, economic instability, political authoritarianism – on an unprecedented, planetary scale. Societies across the globe are stuck in noxious political and economic structures that…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/civilisational-melancholy-and-temporalised-space-in-contemplative-science-fiction-cinema-a-phenomenological-study-of-johann-johannssons-last-and-first-men/feed/ 0 Blurring Space Across Film, Theatre and Virtual Reality: Zero-Calorie Restaurant (2023) https://framescinemajournal.com/article/blurring-space-across-film-theatre-and-virtual-reality-zero-calorie-restaurant-2023/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/blurring-space-across-film-theatre-and-virtual-reality-zero-calorie-restaurant-2023/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:55:56 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5553 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2995 Introduction In 2023, Zero-Calorie Restaurant (零卡餐厅) premiered as part of China Central Television’s (CCTV) Theatre for All (众生戏) short film initiative, a programme designed to explore contemporary expressions of Chinese traditional theatre, or xiqu (戏曲), through cinematic forms. Directed by Siwei Zou, the short film stands out for its unique…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/blurring-space-across-film-theatre-and-virtual-reality-zero-calorie-restaurant-2023/feed/ 0 The “Empty Centre” of Paris: Logics of Exclusivity in the Tourist Romance https://framescinemajournal.com/article/the-empty-centre-of-paris-logics-of-exclusivity-in-the-tourist-romance/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/the-empty-centre-of-paris-logics-of-exclusivity-in-the-tourist-romance/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:56:26 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5467 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2992 This article contends with the cinematic form of the tourist romance, investigating how it represents and ideologises urban space through its appropriation of the figure of the flâneur. I discuss here how this subgenre of the romantic comedy is fundamentally bound up with concerns over space, mobility, consumption, and discursive boundaries between…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/the-empty-centre-of-paris-logics-of-exclusivity-in-the-tourist-romance/feed/ 0 The Logic of Disorientation: Exploring Space in Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude https://framescinemajournal.com/article/the-logic-of-disorientation-exploring-space-in-albert-serras-afternoons-of-solitude/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/the-logic-of-disorientation-exploring-space-in-albert-serras-afternoons-of-solitude/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:56:29 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5347 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2963 Introduction In one of his public talks dedicated to his latest work, the Catalan film director Albert Serra claimed: “In the future, people will go to the cinema to suffer,” adding: “Without suffering, one does not feel he is alive.” [1] There is no doubt that a film devoted to a subject such as bullfighting inevitably engages with the moving…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/the-logic-of-disorientation-exploring-space-in-albert-serras-afternoons-of-solitude/feed/ 0 Silent to Sound: British Cinema in Transition https://framescinemajournal.com/article/silent-to-sound-british-cinema-in-transition/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/silent-to-sound-british-cinema-in-transition/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:56:53 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5571 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.3000 By Geoff Broww John Libbey Publishing, 2024 Review by Jacob Browne, University of St Andrews The framework of “transition” poses a particular set of questions. Can it simply be defined as everything that exists between the appearance of a new form and the subsequent disappearance of an old one? Can we definitively say what prompts the…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/silent-to-sound-british-cinema-in-transition/feed/ 0 Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger https://framescinemajournal.com/article/man-of-taste-the-erotic-cinema-of-radley-metzger/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/man-of-taste-the-erotic-cinema-of-radley-metzger/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:56:57 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5577 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.3001 By Rob King Columbia University Press, 2025 Reviewed by Zoe Rogan, University of St Andrews Radley Metzger’s film career has typically been sectioned off into his softcore cinema under his own name and the hardcore pornography he made under the pseudonym Henry Paris. In his study of Metzger’s work, Rob King untangles the dichotomy between the…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/man-of-taste-the-erotic-cinema-of-radley-metzger/feed/ 0 Letter from the Editors https://framescinemajournal.com/article/letter-from-the-editors-18/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/letter-from-the-editors-18/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:57:21 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5563 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2998 Dear Reader, Welcome to the 22nd issue of Frames Cinema Journal, (Re)Locations: Transformations of Place in Film! This issue explores the dynamic interplay between film and the nuanced, yet intertwined concepts of location, place, and space. When we began work on the issue, we had no specific brief in mind, except to always be mindful of the…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/letter-from-the-editors-18/feed/ 0 Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation https://framescinemajournal.com/article/choreographing-mexico-festive-performances-and-dancing-histories-of-a-nation/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/choreographing-mexico-festive-performances-and-dancing-histories-of-a-nation/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:57:23 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5582 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.3002 Manuel R. Cuellar University of Texas Press, 2022 Reviewed by Camila Contreras-Langlois, University of St Andrews. In Choreographing Mexico, Manuel R. Cuellar explores how folklórico dance and its embodied experiences for performers and spectators can shape a nation, its consciousness building, and therefore its historical comprehension and…

]]> https://framescinemajournal.com/article/choreographing-mexico-festive-performances-and-dancing-histories-of-a-nation/feed/ 0 Berlin as It Was: Archival Footage and Lost Urban Spaces in Early Postwar German Cinema https://framescinemajournal.com/article/berlin-as-it-was-archival-footage-and-lost-urban-spaces-in-early-postwar-german-cinema/ https://framescinemajournal.com/article/berlin-as-it-was-archival-footage-and-lost-urban-spaces-in-early-postwar-german-cinema/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:57:52 +0000 Frames https://framescinemajournal.com/?post_type=article&p=5452 Continue reading →]]> DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2979 Introduction In 1945, following the defeat of the German military, Germany’s cities, including its capital, Berlin, were left in ruins. The German fiction films made in the four years after the end of World War II are largely set in the country’s devastated cities. They became known as “rubble films” (Trümmerfilme), a label that focuses attention…

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