Cinema history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics as informed by international films and various scholarly approaches.
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Laughing in Friendship: The Intimate Ensemble Comedy of “Friends” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This paper analyses the sitcom “Friends” (1994-2004) and its performance motifs.
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Being Her/She in “Who Are You?” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
Analysis of the episode from television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Who Are You?” (4.16).
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “The Urban and the Domestic: Spaces of American Film Noir” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
Urban and domestic spaces are at the core of the American film noir developed in the 1940s and 50s. The connection between such spaces and noir cannot be considered only as motivational (an association between city and crime) or protective (a separation between home and violence). The context of this genre must be considered more largely as the…[Read more]
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “The Class of Images: Sketch for a Research Project” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
The concept of class has been progressively erased in contemporary discussions around art — and other topics. The explanatory power of this economic and social category, as articulated by Karl Marx, has been annulled precisely at a time when the contradictions of late capitalism are growing, composing an ideological background that creates c…[Read more]
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “‘Being Open to Possibilities That We Can’t Know Yet’: An Interview with Catherine Grant” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
Interview with Catherine Grant about her move to Birkbeck, teaching and research, the project [in]Transition, changes in scholarship, and technology and the humanities.
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “The Work of Cinematic Art: Art as Work and Work as Art” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
Leaning into the work of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Vertov, and Cunhal, I present a critical analysis of the dialectic of work and art.
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Divinely Human: Robert Bresson’s Spiritual Reflections in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days ago
This talk reads Robert Bresson’s Notes on the Cinematographer, not as a mere collection of thoughts, but as spiritual reflections. These brief meditations record aspects of his film practice in condensed form and reveal the connection between contemplation and action. The contemplative tone of the book becomes perceptible through the careful o…[Read more]
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited On Essentialism: Thoughts Between Nöel Carroll and Stanley Cavell in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days ago
Nöel Carroll has been one of the most eloquent proponents of an anti-essentialist view of art, in particular, of cinema. He seems to think that Stanley Cavell holds an essentialist view of film, put forward in his foundational work, The World Viewed, and developed in later essays and books. While Carroll admires Cavell’s philosophical readings of…[Read more]
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Labyrinths of the Self: Different Characters, Identical Bodies in “Battlestar Galactica” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days ago
Paper on performance and personal identity in the television series “Battlestar Galactica”.
Manfred Engel deposited Mediating the Dream / Les genres et médias du rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020 (Cultural Dream Studies; 4) — Contents and Preface in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days ago
Representations of dreams – no matter if factual or fictional – are influenced not only by cultural patterns but also by the specific opportunities offered and the specific challenges posed by the genre or medium which was chosen for them. The essays in this volume consider, in detailed case studies, variants of factual dream reports and fic…[Read more]
Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited PROCESINF:Oferta de información para la documentación audiovisual en televisoras locales in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks ago
El diseño de ofertas de información centradas en el usuario favorece la satisfacción de los mismos. Se identificó que en los canales de televisión locales se realiza un incorrecto tratamiento de la documentación audiovisual, fundamentalmente por la carencia de personal especializado. Se plantean como objetivos del estudio: 1) diagnosticar las n…[Read more]
Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited The role of audiovisual production researcher in the treatment of audiovisual documentation in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
The roles in the treatment of audiovisual documentation have a great variety of denominations. Among the most common are Production Researcher, TV Researcher, Film Researcher, Program Researcher and Video Librarian. Although the names vary, the functions are limited to the processing, storage, custody and dissemination of audiovisual collections.…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Red Social (Una red para atraparlos a todos) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
English abstract: A paper on Facebook and ubicuous online social networking as a radical intervention on the elitist social networks which were at the origin of Zuckerberg’s stroke of genius in computer-mediated communication and in social self-presentation. This is done by way of a critique of David Fincher’s film ‘The Social Network’ based on…[Read more]
Kendra Leonard deposited Cultural Diversity and the Musical Representation of California in Regional 1970s Television in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
In 1970, a television-show dance contest in a small California town ended abruptly when the studio was briefly plunged into darkness because of an apparent power failure. The media coverage of the event eventually helped uncover criminal activity at the studio; over the course of this reporting, the narrative was accompanied by select genres of…[Read more]
Torgeir Fjeld wrote a new post Bergman: recent scholarship in the group
Film Studies: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
Hello all:
For a project on Ingmar Bergman’s productive middle period (roughly the 1960s) would you have any suggestions on recent scholarship?
The interest here is particularly with analyses of his films […]
Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Sistema de Superación de las Televisiones Locales para potenciar el Proyecto de Desarrollo Local. Sistematización de Experiencias in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
El libro aborda los principales resultados y características del proyecto científico: Sistema de Superación de las Televisiones Locales para Potenciar el Proyecto de desarrollo Local, cuyo objetivo se enfoca en el municipio de Caibarién. El territorio se selecciona debido a que cuenta con un canal local y en el mismo se implementa el Programa Nac…[Read more]
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 4 in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle
cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of
art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in
which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance
of…[Read more]Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 3 in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle
cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of
art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in
which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance
of…[Read more]Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 1 in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Spectres of Today: The Fractures of History in “Horse Money” (2014) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
It took Pedro Costa four feature films to get to “Horse Money” (“Cavalo Dinheiro”, 2014). In Down to Earth (Casa de Lava, 1994), a Portuguese nurse accompanies an immigrant worker in coma from Lisbon to his homeland, the Cape Verdean island of Fogo. “Bones” (“Ossos”, 1997), In “Vanda’s Room” (“No Quarto da Vanda”, 2000), and “Colossal Youth” (“Ju…[Read more]
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