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Edwin Culp deposited El discreto (y cómico) encanto de la sobremesa in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoEl texto explora el uso del tiempo y la producción de lo cómico en “El discreto encanto de la burguesía” (“Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie”, Luis Buñuel, Francia, 1972) y Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, Estados Unidos/Japón/Italia, 2003).
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Leticia Perez Alonso started the topic CFP: Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture (1900-1950) in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoWe invite proposals for contributions to an edited collection on cinematic representations of women in works of art, poetry, fiction, theater and criticism of the avant-garde. The popularization of film stars such as Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo and Brigitte Helm shaped the cultural imaginary of modernity to such an extent…[Read more]
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Bregt Lameris deposited Materialità e sensazione storiche del film in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoArticle on the materiality of archival film prints and how this materiality can be duplicated on new projection prints and produce a historical sensation.
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Edwin Culp deposited Directing Actors for Non-Directors: Creative Research Strategies for Fiction Films in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThroughout film history, many famous scenes and even entire films have been devised with actors improvising on certain general parameters that ultimately depict a character, often vaguely portrayed. These turns to improvisation and narrative experimentation tend to come forward every time filmmakers propose a new rupture, frequently accompanied by…[Read more]
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Adelheid Heftberger deposited Kollision der Kader: Dziga Vertovs Filme, die Visualisierung ihrer Strukturen und die Digital Humanities in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of Russian artists and scholars, known as the “formalists,” developed new concepts of…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Music for the Kingdom of Shadows: Cinema Accompaniment in the Age of Spiritualism in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIn this book, I explore the connections between music for early movies (1895-1927) involving the supernatural in the context of the culture of the time in regard to supernatural beliefs and entertainments, particularly spiritualism.
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Ryan Watson deposited Affective radicality: prisons, Palestine, and interactive documentary in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis essay analyzes two recent interactive documentary projects: Sharon Daniel’s Public Secrets (2006), an exploration of the prison industrial complex through the testimonies of female inmates in California, and Zohar Kfir’s Points of View (2014) which “maps” Palestinian video advocacy projects made for and/or disseminated by B’Tselem, a human r…[Read more]
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Ryan Watson deposited In the Wakes of Rodney King: Militant Evidence and Media Activism in the Age of Viral Black Death in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis essay explores the historical and critical legacy of the Rodney King tape, namely, it’s transformation of the concerns of the field of documentary studies in the turn toward “visible evidence” in the 1990s. This turn privileged the power of visibility, particularly in radical and activist practices, but visibility is a fraught concept for m…[Read more]
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Hi, Ryan! If you’re not familiar with it, you might be interested in my long-ago book chapter on the Rodney King videotape, which is accessible here on Humanities Commons: “‘I’ll See It When I Believe It’: Rodney King and the Prison-House of Video,” The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event, edited by Vivian Sobchack…[Read more]
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Thanks, Frank! I’ll take a look.
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Rosa Tapia deposited Space and the Affect of Horror in Pablo Larrain’s Post Mortem in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoPost Mortem by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín challenges traditional cinematic conventions of affect and spectacle through a narrative of spaces and bodies that is neither realist, comedic, nor melodramatic. This chapter draws upon affect theories that study the spectacle of cinematic spaces and political bodies in Latin American film. The…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Women at the Pedals: Female Cinema Musicians during the Great War in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoWomen filled a number of roles in the American cinema music industry, particularly during
the Great War. In addition to serving as cultural barometers for cinematic music
and accompaniment, women were at the heart of innovations in cinema sound
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Steven Aoun deposited Question Mark? Mass Murder, the Mass Media and Mental Health in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSeung-Hui Cho, the mass murderer who called himself Question Mark, left a lot of questions behind him. One of them obviously speaks for itself: what motivated him to kill thirty-three strangers at Virginia Tech? Another question almost goes without saying: why do we seek refuge behind moral explanations? Like ‘the question mark kid’ the adult…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited EGL 194: Intro to Film (Fall 2019) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis is the syllabus I’ve designed for my Fall 2019 undergraduate-level Introduction to Film course. I focused the course as a genre study of American horror films. I want my students to be able to consider the socio-political contexts of popular films and to detect and explain the arguments and worldviews produced by film.
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Caitlin Duffy deposited “Live or die, make your choice”: American Survival Game Horror in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoFrom the 2007 remake of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games to Adam Robitel’s Escape Room (2019), the survival game has become a recurring sub-genre of American horror cinema in the last twenty years; however, its haunting presence has yet to be fully analyzed.
The American survival game horror film is uniquely able to render neoliberal con…[Read more]
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Bourgeoisie Is Also a Class: Class as Character in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay explores Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” from a Marxist perspective, including its depiction of the Italian bourgeoisie of “il boom” era of the 1950s and 1960s. Numerous frame enlargements are used to substantiate the claim that even the film’s style contributes to its representations of socioeconomic class.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Italian Americans in the Hollywood Cinema: Filmmakers, Characters, Audiences Voices in Italian Americana 7.1 (Spring 1996): 65-77. Selected for reprinting in Voices in Italian Americana 26.1 (Spring 2015) as one of the most significant essays published in VIA in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article investigates the representation of Italian Americans in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, expanding the research originally conducted by noted scholar Mirella Affron.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Japan through Others’ Lenses: “Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1959) and “Lost in Translation” Japan Studies Review 11 (2007): 143-155. Also available on the Internet at http://asianstudies.fiu.edu in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article compares and contrasts two films that take place in Japan but that were directed by French and American directors. Their “outsider perspective” is explored in terms of their respective films’ themes, characters, and cinematic styles.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis is a review/analysis of the Antonioni film IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN (1982), occasioned by its DVD release by the Criterion Collection.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Mr. Jones Goes to Washington: Myth and Religion in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay uses Joseph Campbell’s concept of the Monomyth to analyze both the mythic and contemporary implications of a “popcorn” movie that has numerous social and political subtexts for the Reaganite era.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited “‘You’re Telling Me You Didn’t See”: Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay compares After Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW and Michelangelo Antonioni’s BLOW-UP in terms of their similarities in narrative, characters, and cinematic style.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: “Triumph of the Will” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay uses the work of Wilhelm Reich to analyze the “mass psychology of fascism” in Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous Nazi propaganda film, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.
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