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Derek Johnston deposited The Folk of Folk Horror in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago‘Folk horror’ has often been considered, following Mark Gatiss’ description of the genre, as centrally focused on a particular ‘obsession with the British landscape, its folklore, and superstitions’. While these elements are clearly significant, they become more problematic when opening up the genre to include texts from beyond Britain. Not only…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Ayat-Ayat Cinta’ (Verses of Love): Versículos de amor in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years agoEnglish abstract: ‘Verses of Love’, an Islamic film on the extended couple, features a melodramatic plot in which love triumphs after many difficulties, and the virtuous protagonists Fahri and Aisha are happy in their marriage, having shown the value of their Islamic faith amidst the trials of life—accepting these with sumbission, which is the s…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Contagio (De virus y rumores) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years agoSpanish abstract: La película ‘Contagio’ (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011) pertenece al género ‘catástrofe – multiprotagonista’, aquí potenciado por varias circunstancias. La catástrofe es mundial y creíble, una epidemia de una gripe mortífera, como la Peste Negra, o como la Peste Escarlata de Jack London. Y la catástrofe se difunde por las relacione…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Love for Share’: Historias de mujeres y de sumisión in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoSpanish Abstract: Una película indonesia sobre la pareja heterosexual en el ambiente social indonesio, sobre el patriarcado atmosférico—y sobre el Islam (valga la redundancia). Poner tierra por medio, o mejor no casarse si aún estás a tiempo, es la recomendación de la directora para las mujeres. Ay, si fuera tan fácil… Pero en su context…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Job: Contemporary Publishing Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Libraries in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHello!
The Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is looking for a Contemporary Publishing Fellow, reporting to the Assistant University Librarian, Research Data and Digital Scholarship. The incumbent contributes to the team’s efforts to transform the digital publishing landscape by piloting a…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Oreja (y la cámara) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoSpanish abstract: ‘Ucho’ (La oreja), película de Karel Kachyňa (1970) es una prefiguración de ‘La vida de los Otros’ sobre la Cheka checa, pero con una estética peculiar—una película entre el realismo documental y lo grotesco, algo así como un cruce entre ‘1984’ y ‘Quién teme a Virginia Woolf ‘, combinando la sátira política con la cinematogr…[Read more]
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Irina Schulzki deposited The Genealogy of Gesture: From Kira Muratova to Renata Litvinova in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe long-term creative collaboration between Kira Muratova and Renata Litvinova began with the film “Uvlechen’ya” (“Pastimes”, 1994), in which Litvinova took part both as an actress and a screenwriter. Since then, Litvinova has become one of the most striking personifications of Muratova’s ornamental film style, which brings about a specific re…[Read more]
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Cosmopoéticas da desobediência informe: leitura contra-colonial do regime da extração no catálogo Lumière in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoConsiderando o catálogo Lumière como experiência inaugural do cinema mundial, este artigo propõe uma leitura anarquívica de algumas de suas imagens. Diferenciando a operação do cinematógrafo como dispositivo cosmotécnico de arquivamento do mundo e aparelho cosmopoético de invenção de mundos, exploro as formas de inscrição da diferença no…[Read more]
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 8.1, part 2 in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 8.1, part 1 in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited “The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoBuilding on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Never Let Me Go’: El sujeto en la sociedad orgánica in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Artículo sobre algunas implicaciones ideológicas de la película ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Mark Romanek, 2010), basada en la novela de Kazuo Ishiguro. Ofrece un retrato de la sociedad como un sistema educativo manipulador, que mantiene a los niños ignorantes de las cosas más importantes que se pueden saber sobre el poder y la expl…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘El interrogatorio’ (‘Przesluchanie’): La corrupción del sistema corrompe al individuo por dentro in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Una reflexión sobre la representación de la resistencia, la resiliencia, y las tácticas totalitarias para domeñar a los disidentes, tal y como se representan en la película polaca ‘El interrogatorio’ (‘Przesluchanie’, dir. Ryszard Bugajski, 1989). La construcción inconsistente de la personalidad de la heroína testifica las dificu…[Read more]
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Tarzan, um negro: para uma crítica da economia política do nome de “África” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDesde 1912, inúmeros textos – romances, programas de rádio, histórias em quadrinhos, seriados de televisão, filmes – produziram e articularam representações da África em narrativas envolvendo Tarzan, criado pelo estadunidense Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Tomando o nome de “África” como referência, os textos que orbitam e habitam o nome d…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited “Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence” — Nostalgia de la experiencia inmediata in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSpanish Abstract: De la conjunción de ‘Neuromante’ y de ‘Blade Runner’, con un toque de ́Matrix ́, surgen el manga y serie de películas de animación ‘Ghost in the Shell’. El dilema de ‘Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence’ versa sobre la identidad personal: si es replicable, si es imitable, si consiste en signos, ¿dónde está la esencia de la humanid…[Read more]
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