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Collected Essays: Godard, Revolution and Representation

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Radu A. Davidescu. Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Godard, Revolution and Representation. Godard's Ici et Ailleurs. When taken in a broader sense, the film can be paradigmic of a plethora of situations, not restricted to. Doesn't only provide a look at the specific issue of the Palestinian struggle before Black September, but also makes a broader comment on the nature of representation, perception and the changing ideological perspectives in the aftermath of the massacre, which in turn provides a framework ...

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Collected Essays: December 2008

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Radu A. Davidescu. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. Themes of "momism", Communism and Conformity in 1950's American Cinema. As the 40's reached their end and post-war. To have been the prime candidate for filling this vacuum in the. Without actually being at war with the Soviet Union,. Began to slowly paint this picture of their enemy based on paranoia and the post-war psychology of having to live in a world that, unlike that of the 40's, had no clear enemy or a clear war to fight. Combined, these themes, p...

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Collected Essays: September 2009

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Radu A. Davidescu. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. John Greyson's 14.3 Seconds. As a faux-documentary, Greyson's 14.3 Seconds. This point is further expanded upon and linked to the Palestinian struggle, in Godard's Ici et Ailleurs. Godard makes us aware of these "manipulatory" techniques and is essentially showing the ease with which images, ideas and ultimately history, can be manipulated to suit any number of needs. As such, Ici et Ailleurs. Question.”, p5. Directed by John Greyson, 2008. John Greyson's...

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Collected Essays: Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention

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Radu A. Davidescu. Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention. Uses the concept of Foucault's "effective history" to transform the "historian's history" that the nationalistic nation-state uses to assert its validity into a different form of time which challenges it. Suleiman does this using both the narrative and the form of Divine Intervention. But also for providing his opinion on the matter and its causes ("silence shows a breakdown of communication" [4]. Is in essence the enti...

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Collected Essays: May 2008

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Radu A. Davidescu. Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Analysis of Robert S. Nelson's Living on the Byzantine Borders of Western Art. Nelson's essay presents a critique of the western view of art history claiming that this view is 'a manifestation of Orientalism' [1]. He uses the term in its negative meaning, as presented by Edward Saïd in his 1978 book by the same name. [2]. Which was chronologically happening at the same time. Be it by the previously mentioned chronological inversion [4]. It is not until Nelson's r...

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Collected Essays: December 2009

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Radu A. Davidescu. Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Godard, Revolution and Representation. Godard's Ici et Ailleurs. When taken in a broader sense, the film can be paradigmic of a plethora of situations, not restricted to. Doesn't only provide a look at the specific issue of the Palestinian struggle before Black September, but also makes a broader comment on the nature of representation, perception and the changing ideological perspectives in the aftermath of the massacre, which in turn provides a framework ...

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Collected Essays: October 2009

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Radu A. Davidescu. Wednesday, October 28, 2009. Paradise Now, Curfew and Divine Intervention. As Palestinian films, both Abu-Assad's Paradise Now. Convey the Palestinian "experience" through "a reality of distress and siege, of a perpetual hopeless downfall" [1]. As such, Paradise Now. But while the film avoids the spectacle, it nevertheless shares the common theme of the perpetual hopeless downfall that is so prevalent in Curfew. But more importantly in defining a blueprint for representing Palestinians...

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Collected Essays: June 2008

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Radu A. Davidescu. Thursday, June 12, 2008. The Virgin of Jerusalem: A Byzantine Icon. Century Virgin of Jerusalem icon, as many religious icons, is better analyzed in terms of its prototypical qualities than rather the individual object. This is not only because the artist is unknown, but also because of the difficulty in identifying the object as unique amongst other Virgin of Jerusalem icons from the 15. School) within which the actual icon was created. While there are many icons of the Virgin and...

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Collected Essays: Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now

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Radu A. Davidescu. Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now. This narrative, as presented in Paradise Now. Indeed, without the "imaginative and empathizing" process set forth by Paradise Now. Or its dialogue and contemplative manner of "condemnation that passes through understanding" [3]. The viewer cannot determine the degree of their own complicity and involvement in the matter. [4]. Gana provides two examples for this from Paradise Now. Namely the breakdown of the camera while filmi...