Oscar — 2022: Hamaguchi Ryūsuke by E. L. Katasonova

“…His film Drive My Car received the prize of the American Film Academy, Oscar — 2022, as the best foreign film. …”
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Creating a Home Elsewhere: Diasporic Imagination in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari by Alifya Aini Fauziyah, Lestari Manggong, Sandya Maulana

“…This approach will show how the American film attempts to incorporate the new forms of portraying the ‘elsewhere’ which is an important characteristic of American dream narratives. …”
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THE IMAGE OF AMERICAN WOMAN IN LITERATURE: AN ADAPTATION ANALYSIS IN TOMB RAIDER� VIDEO GAME, FILM AND SHORT STORY by , YOGA SUDARISMAN, , Prof. Dr. Siti Chamamah Soeratno

“…By observing the history of both media (video game and film), those products of American popular culture were assumed able to express the social and cultural phenomenon of America â�� especially in this digital era â�� such as presenting the image of American women in American film that adapted from video game. As widely known, video game media has always been related to both worlds: digital and male world. …”

Beauty in Black and White? Race, Beauty, and the 1926 Fox Film Photogenic Beauty Contest in Brazil by Lena Oak Suk

“…In 1926, the Fox Film Corporation held a “Masculine and Feminine Photogenic Beauty Contest” to find Hollywood’s newest “Latin” star in Brazil and other countries. North American film representatives asked for contestants who were “white with Latin blood.” …”
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Financial and political aspects of state intervention in the British film industry, 1925-1939 by Street, S, Street, Sarah

“…There was no subsidy for producers or a heavy duty levied on American film imports.</p> <p>The origins, impact and character of official film policy are explored in the thesis with particular attention to financial and political aspects. …”

Lancastrians, Tudors, and World War II: British and German Historical Films as Propaganda, 1933–1945 by William B. Robison

“…Wood’s <i>Drake of England</i> (1935), William Howard’s <i>Fire Over England</i> (1937), parts of which reappear in the propaganda film <i>The Lion Has Wings</i> (1939), and the pro-British American film <i>The Sea Hawk</i> (1940). Meanwhile, two German films little known to present-day English language viewers turned the tables with English villains. …”
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“They Always Kill With Wire”: Indonesian Adaptations of American Cinema in The Act of Killing (Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) by Mihaela Precup

“…The Act of Killing (2012) is a documentary by American film director Joshua Oppenheimer, who went to Indonesia and encouraged former executioners to reenact their murders from the time of the 1965-1966 military coup, when one million people were killed after they were accused of being communists. …”
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“LIFE AFTER PEOPLE”: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE AND THE STRUCTURES OF THE POST-HUMAN GLOBAL IMAGINARY by Adriana NEAGU

“…The paper examines post-humanist representations in Anglo-American film productions from a perspective informed by global and hypermodern cultural theory. …”
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Not just escapism—Medicine-related fiction films as therapeutical and education tools amid pandemic by Dennis Henkel

“…The researcher conducted multiple searches using the largest internet movie databases (Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the American Film Institute Catalog, and the British Film Institute’s Collections Search) and literature research focusing on studies related to the value of films as visual learning and educational tools and their therapeutic effects on viewers in times of pandemics. …”
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The Political History of Classical Hollywood: Moguls, Liberals and Radicals by Wheeler, Mark

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Visual Complexity in Japanese and European Cinema of the 1950s–1960s: Stylistic and Semantic Similarities and Differences / «Визуальная сложность» в японском и европейском кино 195... by REIFMAN BORIS V. / РЕЙФМАН Б.В.

“…And this largely distinguishes Japanese cinema from formally similar European and American film modernism, predetermined not so much by mental factors and old cultural traditions as by contemporary intellectual discourses, primarily existentialist and Christian-personalist philosophy. …”
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THE DEPICTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICAN MOVIES by Rudy Rudy

“…This study focuses on the depiction of homosexuality in American films. It is intended to identify the images of gays depicted in American films as well as the characteristics of American gay movies. …”
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(Mis)representations of Motherf** in Italian Film Dubbing by Patrizia Giampieri

“…To this aim, a corpus of 24 American films dated from 1977 to 2015 will be implemented and the occurrence rates of the back translations will be analysed. …”
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A Study of the Ethics of Contemporary American Women’s Cinema by Gao Weihua

“…As one of the essential mediums of global cultural communication, American films, especially those involving women’s themes, have played a key role in shaping and transmitting women’s images and ethical concepts. …”
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Le Blanc et son Autre : la figure de l’Indien dans le cinéma hollywoodien contemporain by Sophie Gergaud

“…Through examples of recently produced American films belonging to different genres – neowestern, drama, comedy and even science fiction - this article intends to show that white (anti)-heroes are still present and central to the narrative, and are presented in the end as better Indians than the Indians themselves. …”
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Filmmakers as Social Advocates—A New Challenge for Issues Management: Claims-making and Framing in Four Social Issue Documentaries by Mechelle Martz-Mayfield, Kirk Hallahan

“…A content analysis of four contemporary American films targeting major corporations – Starbucks, McDonalds, Wal-Mart and General Motors – examined the use of issue framing and five story-telling devices identified in the claims-making literature: interviews, statistics, dramatizations, symbols, and celebrities. …”
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Du documentaire à la fiction : Tierra Caliente (2004) et El violín (2005), deux modalités d’approche de la réalité mexicaine par Francisco Vargas by Julie Amiot-Guillouet

“…In the context of a renewal of Latin-American films since 1990, Mexican cinema is an exception and seems to be going through a long crisis from which only the documentary manages to escape. …”
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L’île sur le fleuve dans Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2013) et Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960) : Requiem contre le progrès ? by Sandra Gorgievski

“…The island – a metaphorical space that exemplifies such dual notions as space and depth, space from within/without – is a desert one on the Mississippi River that is magnified in Nichols’ Mud, while the inhabitants of the Garth Island on the Hiwassee River in Kazan’s Wild River are expelled by the impending progress of industrialization. The two American films stage local communities that barely survive but are doomed to disappear; in both cases, an intruder on the island provokes attraction and fascination to some, repulsion, and danger to others. …”
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Authenticity and the Forest in Captain Fantastic (2016) and Leave No Trace (2018) by Martina Martausová

“…This study focuses on the role of the forest as a specific form of the wilderness in two contemporary American films, Captain Fantastic (2016) and Leave No Trace (2018), analyzing how this background motivates and shapes the authentic representation of the main male protagonist. …”
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A Hard Day’s Knights: Movie Time Travel, the Middle Ages, and a New Millenium : Gil Junger's Black Knight and Richard Donner's Timeline by John Engle

“…This article addresses the cinematic treatment of the Middle Ages through an analysis of two recent mass-audience American films, Black Knight and Timeline, both of which feature time travel as a leading plot element. …”
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