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Eric Dienstfrey deposited The Myth of the Speakers: A Critical Reexamination of Dolby History in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article corrects misconceptions regarding the history of film stereo. I show that the technical and aesthetic innovations regularly credited to Dolby Stereo, to sound designers like Walter Murch, and to films like Apocalypse Now (1979) were not revolutions but extensions of surround-sound practices that Hollywood codified in prior decades. I…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Under the Standard: MGM, AT&T, and the Academy’s Regulation of Power in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Plano de ensino da disciplina Teorias do Cinema (COMA86, Facom-UFBA, 2023-1) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoEsta disciplina da área de concentração em Cinema e Audiovisual, oferecida regularmente pela Faculdade de Comunicação para o Bacharelado Interdisciplinar em Artes (IHAC-UFBA), assim como para quaisquer outros cursos e estudantes que tenham interesse, tem como objetivo: mapear o campo das teorias do cinema e do audiovisual, seus principais mome…[Read more]
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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt deposited From Miami to Hong Kong SoundingTransnational Queerness and Translation in Moonlight in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThrough the example of Barry Jenkins’ choices for Moonlight (2016), this chapter argues that pre-existing musical cues can link a film’s themes to other minority filmmaking traditions. The song at the center of this chapter, “Cucurrucucú Paloma,” exemplifies the kinds of cultural translations common in transnational queer cinema. It was orig…[Read more]
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Antonio Da Silva started the topic CFC: Women Filmmakers… Queer World Cinema in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDear all,
Please find below the call for chapter proposals for the edited collection Women Filmmakers’ Contribution to Queer World Cinema
Please see the details in the link: https://sites.google.com/view/womeninworldcinema/home
Kind regards,
Antonio
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Martin Boehnert deposited Nicht-triviale Trivialitäten in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoOn the example of “The Walking Dead”, we demonstrate in how far the reception of pop culture narratives can serve not merely trivial entertainment, but epistemological interest as well. For this purpose, we introduce the term pop cultural secondary worlds and formulate the thesis that these can be used analogously to thought experiments. The…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited The Gothicisation of British TV Historical Drama in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis paper examines a strand in British television historical drama that presents what I term a “Gothicised” version of history. This actively engages with historical trauma as returning to confront its originating society, as the classic Gothic text represents the returning or ongoing effects of a traumatic past in the narrative present. In Peaky…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Gothicising Picnic at Hanging Rock in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis paper considers the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock as an example of Gothicised historical television drama, which uses the Gothic mode to present a past in a way that challenges our expectations of what prestige historical drama should be like, and to emphasise historical traumas and the way that they are still relevant…[Read more]
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Gundela Hachmann deposited Abstract “Wim Wenders on Poetry in Cinema. Thoughts on Poiesis and the Pragmatics of Poeticity” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoAbstract of presentation at 2023 MLA Convention session “193 – Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity”
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Derek Johnston deposited Winter and the Gothic Historical Television Drama in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoKeynote paper.
This paper examines the connections between the winter season and Gothic historical television dramas. It defines Gothic historical television dramas as dramas with a historical setting that take on a Gothic aesthetic and emphasise themes of trauma which are active in the past and continue to be active in the present. It also…[Read more] -
Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Indicadores para constatar las expresiones de participación en la producción televisiva in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month ago|El estudio de la participación en la producción televisiva del spot de bien público en televisoras locales contempla las acciones que se efectúan como parte del proceso y los condicionamientos que inciden en la realización de la actividad. La investigación en cuestión se enfoca en develar las relaciones que se establecen entre los sujetos en los…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny in the group
Film-Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoPeople can laugh at almost anything. What’s the deal with that? What makes something funny? This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny. Each theory offers insights into this question, but no single approach provides a comprehensive answer.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La piel que habito’: Transexualidades y transtextualidades in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoSpanish abstract: ´La piel que habito´, película de 2011 de Pedro Almodóvar, es una historia sugerente, llena de ecos de debates de actualidad, y que señala en muchas direcciones diferentes, todas interesantes, pero el núcleo donde se unen todas es un personaje tan patológico que es totalmente implausible, excepto como ficción cinemat…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Plan de acciones para potenciar la educación audiovisual en el contexto universitario in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoLa promoción de cultura, formación de valores y el crecimiento integral es una premisa de la política de educación superior cubana. La universidad además de ser un centro de formación profesional, es un centro cultural para formar actitudes críticas en materia de artes y literatura. Se plantean como objetivos: diseñar la identidad visual del Cin…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Retos de la participación comunitaria en la producción televisiva local in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoEl objeto social de las televisiones locales cubanas es promover el desarrollo de programaciones que integren la cultura y las tradiciones locales. Las temáticas de la programación se concretan fundamentalmente en el cumplimiento de
aquellas producciones priorizadas u otros intereses de la televisión cubana en su instancia nacional. De este mo…[Read more] -
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Characters in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoGoicoetxea Pérez, Ander. “El proceso de madurez del personaje fílmico. El caso de Lucía en Silencio roto, de Montxo Armendáriz.” FotoCinema 23 (2021): Cine español entre milenios (1990-2010): 121-36.* https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/fotocinema/article/view/10066 DOI: 10.24310/Fotocinema.2021.v23i.10066 2022ResearchGate.* …[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Eva’: Imitation of Life in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoSpanish abstract: Comentario sobre algunas cuestiones éticas y metaficcionales en la película ‘Eva’ (dir. Kike Maíllo, 2011).
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English abstract: A comment on some ethical and metafictional issues in the science-fiction film ‘Eva’ (dir. Kike Maíllo, 2011).
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited El origen del Planeta de los Simios in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoAnalizamos el contexto e ideología de la película de ciencia ficción ‘El Origen del Planeta de los Simios’ (2011), con especial atención sobre el juego intertextual de precuelas y secuelas, y sobre las inquietudes ideológicas manifiestas en lo relativo a las relaciones raciales y al evolucionismo.…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Documento audiovisual. Consumo, procesamientos y análisis in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoEl presente texto constituye un referente de obligada consulta para lectores, académicos e investigadores que se desempeñen en el ámbito audiovisual en todas sus aristas: como producto artístico, como fuente de información, como objeto de investigación y como generador de cambio social. El lector podrá encontrar contenidos como la produc…[Read more]
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Camille Alexander started the topic CFP: Disrupting Norms in Supernatural Teen Serials in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoBlack Witches & Queer Ghosts: Disrupting Norms in Supernatural Teen Serials
While fascination with the supernatural has an extensive history, combining teen subjects and audiences with supernatural topics is a fairly contemporary form of entertainment. Serials like Teen Wolf, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and the Vampire Diaries center…[Read more]
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