Cinema history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics as informed by international films and various scholarly approaches.
Derek Johnston deposited Reading Folk Horror Through Nostalgia in the group
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This paper considers the use of Boym’s formulations of reflective and restorative nostalgia as a productive lens for viewing the tensions within folk horror texts and their appeals. Considering folk horror texts such as The Wicker Man, Midsommar and The Living and the Dead, the paper will demonstrate that Boym’s two conceptions help to draw out…[Read more]
Adelheid Heftberger deposited Archiving For an Unknown Future. The State Film Documentation of the GDR (SFD) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago
I will mainly focus on a collection of films made between 1972 and 1985 by the Staatliche Filmdokumentation (SFD)—the State Film
Documentation unit—which survived as part of the collection of the Staatliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA), the former national film archive
of the GDR.Roland Cartagena deposited Study on the construction and composition of online film reviews by Filipino film reviewers: a section from the RRL in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
A section from the RRL chapter of a study that looks into the structure of film writing. It uses rhetorical analysis to determine how online film reviews are constructed or composed and surfaces the argumentative-persuasive components as well as framing mechanisms present in the texts that inform the position of their respective authors. This…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Con la Historia a cuestas: ‘Lone Star’, de John Sayles in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Spanish abstract: ‘Lone Star’ (John Sayles, 1996) es una película sobre la etnicidad y sobre el peso del pasado tratado aquí de manera reflexiva. Es un tema inevitablemente presente en las películas norteamericanas (o en muchas de ellas) pero a menudo sólo como parte del trasfondo, o evitado en el desarrollo de la historia principal. Aquí está…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Infiltrados (The Departed): La paradoja del espía in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: Dos hombres en lados opuestos de la ley están infiltrados —en la Policía y en la mafia— pero hierven la violencia y la sangre derramada cuando la información sale a la luz, y se envía a cada topo a averiguar quién es el enemigo interior. ‘Infiltrados’ es una película de Martin Scorsese que explora la ‘paradoja del espía’, a…[Read more]
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Cinema Transformed in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
Review of Mike Wayne’s “Marxism Goes to the Movies”.
Todd Comer deposited Pacifism as Ideological Complicity in The Big Lebowski in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Abstract: Insofar as Walter identifies with this myth, his rational imperative is profoundly interrupted. However, this representational interruption also operates on a larger level. Since the film opens and closes with the western actor Sam Elliott (The Stranger) and is shot through with western stylistic motifs, it can be seen as striving toward…[Read more]
Malin Lidström Brock deposited Philomena and Ireland’s Mother-and-baby Homes in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
This chapter examines the portrayal of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes in Stephen Frear’s film Philomena (2013) and the biography on which the film is based, the British journalist Martin Sixsmith’s account of Philomena Lee’s life and search for her son, who was given up to an American couple for adoption under coercive circumstances. Enforced a…[Read more]
Richard Bossons deposited MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: trainspotting! in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
As with many of the Kinoks’ films trains often appear in Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece, ‘Man with a Movie Camera’. Used to create dynamism, criss-crossing the screen, often at dramatic angles, and acting as a counterpoint to previous and following scenes. Train sequences also signpost a journey to Odesa by the eponymous cameraman. The paper…[Read more]
Richard Bossons deposited MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the movie cameras in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ is a staple of film studies courses and academic papers but there has been no research until now into the important ‘co-stars’ of the film, the movie cameras. This paper discusses in detail the Debrie Parvo and other cameras used by the film’s cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman.
Richard Bossons deposited MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the first cinema screening in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The definitive timeline for the early screening of Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece has been established for the first time. This illustrated paper looks at the details of the first showing of the film in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Moscow, and Germany. The earliest (pre-release) review of the film in 1928 has been translated into English for the first time,…[Read more]
Richard Bossons deposited MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Following extensive research and detective work, most of the locations used in Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece have been discovered. Described by leading film academics as ‘extraordinary and exciting research’ and ‘a huge step ahead in knowledge of the film’ the paper describes each location in detail including contemporary and current views. The…[Read more]
Natascha Drubek deposited Filme über Vernichtung und Befreiung. Die Rhetorik der Filmdokumente aus Majdanek 1944-1945 in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
In July 1944, the Red Army was advancing through Eastern Poland when they discovered the first traces of the camps. On reaching Lublin they found an enormous compound behind barbed wire in the city’s suburb of Majdanek. Embedded with the Soviet army were film crews, who made the first images of a Nazi camp, among them the “flight survivors” Olga a…[Read more]
Anne Eakin Moss deposited The Camera Shot and the Gun Sight in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
This article examines the link posited by Virilio and others between the camera shot and gun shot, arguing that this link operates differently in the context of Soviet vs. Western fantasies of agency, community and technology. Comparing THE LOST PATROL (USA 1934, John Ford) with TRINADTSAT (THIRTEEN, UdSSR 1936, Mikhail Romm), it asks what kind of…[Read more]
Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Laughing in Friendship: The Intimate Ensemble Comedy of “Friends” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week 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 3 months, 1 week 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 3 months, 1 week 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 3 months, 1 week 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 3 months, 1 week 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 3 months, 1 week ago
Leaning into the work of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Vertov, and Cunhal, I present a critical analysis of the dialectic of work and art.
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