Framework Volume 54, Number 2, Fall 2013
Framework is an international, peer reviewed journal dedicated to theoretical and historical work on the diverse and current trends in media and film scholarship. The journal’s multicultural coverage, interdisciplinary focus, and the high caliber of its writers contributes to important interconnections between regional cinemas, practioners, academics, critics, and students. Framework is committed to publishing articles from interdisciplinary and global perspectives.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Drake Stutesman
DOSSIER: Early Cinema in South Asia: The Problem of the Archive
Introduction
Kaveh Askari
What Is "Early" Cinema?
Neepa Majumdar, Guest Editor
Early Cinema in South Asia: The Place of Technology in Narratives of Its Emergence
Sudhir Mahadevan
Melodrama as Method
Anupama Kapse
On Scavenging and Salvaging: NFAI and Early Indian Cinema
Ramesh Kumar
ESSAY
Culture Counts
Judith Mara Gutman
DOSSIER: Cinema as Timepiece: Critical Perspectives on The Clock
Introduction
Catherine Russell, Guest Editor
Around The Clock: Museum and Market
Erika Balsom
Firing at the Clocks: Cinema, Sampling, and the Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Artwork
Martine Beugnet
On The Clock and Christian Marclay's Instrumental Logic of Appropriation
Eli Horwatt
The Clock: Gesture and Cinematic Replaying
Catherine Fowler
Archival Cinephilia in The Clock
Catherine Russell
DOSSIER: Conversations on the Avant-Doc: Scott MacDonald Interviews