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'Captured: Writing About Film and Photography' - Volume XXIII (2010)
"Captured: Writing About Film and Photography"
Volume XXIII (2010)

" ... As we sought manuscripts for 'Captured: Writing About Film and Photography,' these questions resonated deeply with the material we collected: How does the lens shape our vision? How does the act of filming affect our behavior? Our writing? How do we represent our ideas about how representations are made, and what, if anything, does this tell us about ourselves as readers? About the (post)modern creative process? And in what ways does the modern writer utilize tropes and familiar trajectories from the worlds of film, movies, photography, and video to express his or her own breadth of view? The literary subjects of this portfolio, varied and surprising in their depictions, range from James Bond to Werner Herzog, from mega-stars to flunky film students, from the wildlife of Los Angeles to refugees and the starlets who fantasize about saving them. The views vary, too, from toilet endoscopies to intimate family photographs to God’s-eye pans. Our contributors play fast and loose with genre, and what was submitted as nonfiction could easily be interpreted as prose poetry or flash fiction. Likewise, screenplay seeps into most everything.

"What we unexpectedly discovered in considering submissions for the portfolio is that writers across all spectra—male, female, established writers and those still emerging—have at one time or another been prompted to write about the experience of watching. And we were a little surprised, as we neared the end of our reading period, to find that so much of that writing is about men watching women, or women looking at themselves. In response, we selected a photo essay that confronts the discomfiting power dynamic between the watcher and the watched head-on: Jessica Dimmock’s "Paparazzi!" follows Hollywood-based photographers in their efforts to hunt celebrities and capture their images for the popular media."

— from the portfolio introduction
About the cover: Paparazzi surround actress and model Shauna Sand as she emerges from Villa Lounge in Hollywood after a party for actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s birthday on November 14, 2008.
Credit: Jessica Dimmock / VII Network
Table of contents
» Editorial Comment
» Luljeta Lleshanaku – "After the Evening Movie," "Yellow Book," "Flashback 1," "Flashback 2"
» B.R. Smith – "Caregivers"
» Kevin Haworth – "Far Out All My Life"
» Jennifer Moss – "The Fog Remembered Fever"
» César Vallejo – "Black Stone on a White Stone"
» Paula Bohince – "Hornet’s Nest," "Robin’s Egg"
» Eric Pankey – "Cold Mountain Meditations"
» Matthew Salesses – "How to Plant a Dog"
» A.V. Christie – "Days Like a Diary," "Fugue: Neonatal Unit"
» Eduardo C. Corral – "To a Jornalero Cleaning Out My Neighbor’s Garage," "Untitled (Perfect Lovers) ... "
» Amy Newlove Schroeder – "Many Rooms," "Candling," "Stolen from the Night Factory"
» Amy Newman – "The Rabbit Catcher/The Rabbit Catcher"
» Megan Kruse – "Dollywood"
Portfolio: "Captured: Writing About Film and Photography"
» Portfolio Introduction
» Cynthia Arrieu-King – "Deer of Los Angeles"
» Michelle Disler – "The James Bond Alphabet"
» Jason Magabo Perez – "megastardom"
» Charles Harper Webb – "Have I Got a Script for You"
» John M. Anderson – "I Was Raised by Walter Brennan"
» Bryan D. Dietrich – "Eden, Fonda, Welch, Dickinson, Wagner"
» Elizabeth Schulte – "The Only Thing Virginia Loves"
» Smith Henderson – "The Cowboy’s Wife"
» Jessica Dimmockfrom "Paparazzi!"
» Maggie Schwed – "What the Left Hand Is"
» Matthew Cooperman – "Still: Screening"
» Angie Lee – "Eupcaccia"
» Gretchen E. Hendersonfrom "Galerie de Difformité"
» Nathan Oates – "Developing"
» Kellee Ngan – "Margo, Close-up"
» Joseph Campana – "Suite for the Twentieth Century"
» Kathleen Hellen – "Hide the daughters, hide the rice"
» Steven Wingate – "In the Beginning"
» Dawn Tefft – "Clutching a Pole in Norway"
» Gretchen Steele Pratt – "The Secret Kingdom of the Swifts"
» Krista Eastman – "Layers of Ice"
» Erik Anderson – "Beyond the Red Balloon"
» Robert Rosenberg – "Citizen, Speak Turkish"
» M.J. Cohen – "Good Bread"
» Patricia Lockwood – "Hereafter but Not in Hell ... " "St. Meniscus of the Eyelash is Slaughtered"
» Srikanth Reddyfrom "Voyager," Book One
» David Yost – "The Dog, the Boy, and the Wife: Three Stories of Burma"
» René Char – "Invitation," "Alive Tomorrow"
» Rebecca Givens Rolland – "Easier Harbors"
» Derek Henderson – "Shoulders"
» Kevin C. Powers – "Landscape with Minaret and Straw Dolls"
» Jonathan Weinert – "Report of the Witness"
» Erika L. Sánchez – "Juárez"
» Wayne Miller – "The Beautiful City (in 32 Strokes)"
» Akiva Freidlin – "Mourner’s Kaddish in Mumbai"

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