Browsing Film Studies by Title
Now showing items 108-127 of 135
-
Taking bazin literally
(2017-01-01)This article argues against the standard readings of Bazin's seminal essay "The Ontology of the Photographic Image," which are based on Charles S. Peirce's account of indexicality but for reasons distinct from recent ... -
Terminal Value: Building the Alternative Bloomberg
(2016-09-01) -
Textualism, extratextualism, and the fiction/nonfiction distinction in documentary studies
(2021-01-01)This article critiques existing textualist and extratextualist (intentionalist and reception-driven) approaches to capturing the ordinary understanding of the fiction/nonfiction distinction in philosophical and film ... -
Theorizing fiction in film non/fiction: Some thoughts on recent german film theory
(2019-01-01)Despite fiction film arguably being the privileged object of film theory the notion of “fiction” has been undertheorised by film scholars in general and those working in German in particular. Perhaps the most important ... -
This is my world: spatial representation in theResident Evilfilms
(Informa UK Limited, 2016-07-03) -
Three Worlds
(Berghahn, 2013-11)"Three Worlds" explores three alternatives of cinematic worldhood in popular films that foreground the environment. If the images of the BBC’s recent wave of natural history productions tend towards ocular inflation, Werner ... -
Time, grief, and hope on film
(2022) -
Tracing Bergman in Contemporary Indian Cinema: Philosophical Cross-Connections in Through a Glass Darkly, Ship of Theseus and Dear Molly
(2021-01-01)Ingmar Bergman’s cinema has most often been framed within strictures of a Eurocentric scholarly template and structuralist or modernist philosophical approaches. Meanwhile, the filmmaker’s monumental influence on and ... -
Turning to Animals Between Love and Law
(Lawrence & Wishart, 2012)As an alternative to Utilitarianism, animal ethics turned to the Continental philosophies of Levinas and Derrida that welcome and revere Otherness. While Utilitarianism relies on a ‘closed’ system of ethical calculations, ... -
Two or three things I know about Des
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-11-20) -
The use and abuse of cinema: German legacies from the Weimar era to the present
(2016-10-07)This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in European Cinema on 07 Oct 2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2016.1234834. -
Variation within Stability: Digital 3D and Film Style
(2015-01-01) -
VD Propaganda, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, and the Production Code
(Indiana University Press, 2013)Considered in the context of revisionist film history, this essay draws on Production Code Administration (PCA) documents and studio story files to look at how Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, a 1940 Warner Bros. biopic about ...