Browsing Film Studies by Title
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Julie Christie
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-12-02)Review of the book on Julie Christie by Melanie Bell and published by BFI Palgrave -
Lasting Screen Stars Images that Fade and Personas that Endure
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016-04-17)Through a selection of chapters that look at issues such as inappropriate ageing, national identity and physical characteristics, this book will be the first volume to consider in depth and breadth the factors that affect ... -
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 ... -
Lindsay: With a Little Help from His Friends
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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 ... -
Make Believe: Marie-José Mondzain and Cinema's Christian Economy
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Make-Believe and Realism in British Film Production
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Mapping Contemporary Cinema: blending critical pedagogy and research-based learning in undergraduate curriculum design
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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, ... -
Mary Magdalene in Modern Visual and Popular Culture (Including Documentaries)
This chapter considers the array of representations of Mary Magdalene on the cinema screen between 1912 and 2022. The survey shows the perennial fascination with the sexuality of Mary Magdalene and the range of stereotypes ... -
Melodrama of the Unknown Woman Lost in Space
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Overturning Feminist Phenomenologies: Disability, Complex Embodiment, Intersectionality, and Film
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2018-10)In the film Examined Life (Dir. Astra Taylor, 2009), disability activist Sunny takes a walk with Judith Butler through San Francisco, discussing the relationships of physical impairment to cultural constructions of disability. ... -
Overturning Feminist Phenomenologies: Disability, Complex Embodiment, Intersectionality, and Film
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018-10-05)Ideal for advanced students across Philosophy, Women's Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and more, this book focuses on emerging trends in feminist phenomenology.