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Introducing pandemic cinema in central and eastern europe
(2021-01-01)Although movies representing pandemics can be tracked at least to Die Pest in Florenz/The Pest of Florence (Otto Rippert, 1919, Germany), discussion of pandemic movies as a (sub)genre of its own are quite recent. Moreover, ... -
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Embodying Meaning Visually: From Perceptual Dynamics to Motion Kinematics
(2022-01-01)This paper adopts an embodied cognitive perspective to review the significance of dynamic patterns in the visual expression of meaning. Drawing upon the work of Rudolf Arnheim we first show how perceptual dynamics of ... -
The Potent Sexuality of the Middle-Aged Woman: Alice Aisgill, Karen Stone, Zee Blakeley, and Ruby
This chapter will examine the sexuality of the older women characters in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (Jose Quintero, 1961), Room at the Top (Jack Clayton, 1959), and Zee & Co. (Brian G. Hutton, 1972). Each film focuses ... -
Mary Magdalene and Murdochian Film Phenomenology
For Iris Murdoch, the cinema shows ‘human character on display at the point where spirit and matter are most intensely fused’ – that is, in the human face. Murdoch realises that cinema is an art of intensified consciousness, ... -
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola’s first feature-length original screenplay, for which she won an Academy Award, is a contemplative study of alienation and stasis, which manages to be both joyful and melancholy. Lost in Translation features ... -
Introduction
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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 ... -
Late 1920s film theory and criticism as a test-case for Benjamin’s generalizations on the experiential effects of editing
(2016-07-02)This article investigates Walter Benjamin’s influential generalization that the effects of cinema are akin to the hyper-stimulating experience of modernity. More specifically, I focus on his oft-cited 1935/36 claim that ... -
Fictional emotions and the moral dimension of the paradox of fiction in cinema
(2020-01-01)The paper offers a twofold intervention in the debates about the paradox of fiction. First, it argues that too much emphasis has been placed on the paradox’ epistemological aspect. This has led to a neglect of its ethical ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Film studies and the experimental method
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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. -
Early Cinema in Asia
(2018-01-01)
