Hydrodynamic-Analogy-Based Modelling of CO₂ Capture by Aqueous Monoethanolamine by M. Yazgi, E. Kenig

“…Contrary to the traditional models based on the film theory, separation columns can be described without using mass transfer coefficient correlations. …”
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Interior landscapes in the film 'The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser' by Cvejić Marko

“…Employing a critical approach, the analysis draws analogies and comparisons with sources and influences from art history, psychology, aesthetics, and film theory, with the aim of investigating the success of Herzog's method and its recognition as an independent cinematic element in his works. …”
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Memories of the Unlived Body: Jean-Louis Schefer, Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze by Patrick ffrench

“…Jean-Louis Schefer's newly translated The Ordinary Man of Cinema (2016), originally published in 1980, proposes a singular account of the experience of cinema which departs from the principal tendencies of film theory. It has nevertheless had a profound if somewhat invisible influence in film philosophy and theory since its publication, notably in the work of Gilles Deleuze. …”
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The Meaning Potential of Motion Vectors in Cinema by Maarten Coëgnarts

“…Having firmly grounded this spatial framework in film theory, we adopt the terminology of Herbert Zettl to further distinguish between three types of motion vectors: primary motion vectors (elicited by motion of visual objects), secondary motion vectors (elicited by camera movement) and tertiary motion vectors (elicited by editing). …”
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The Meaning Potential of Motion Vectors in Cinema by Maarten Coëgnarts

“…Having firmly grounded this spatial framework in film theory, we adopt the terminology of Herbert Zettl to further distinguish between three types of motion vectors: primary motion vectors (elicited by motion of visual objects), secondary motion vectors (elicited by camera movement) and tertiary motion vectors (elicited by editing). …”
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Identifying Metaphors in TV Commercials with FILMIP: The Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure by Lorena Bort-Mir

“…FILMIP offers a valuable contribution not only to metaphor scholars but also to researchers focused on other fields of study such as multimodality, discourse analysis, communication, branding, or even film theory. …”
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First-Person Emotions: Affective Neuroscience and the Spectator’s Self by Enrico Carocci

“… The investigation of viewers’ affective experience is one of the most complex and stimulating tasks for film scholars, and it has recently been addressed by analytic and continental strands of film theory. As neuroscience is well equipped to offer insights into cinematic emotional experience, a stimulating dialogue between film studies and neuroscience has been engaged. …”
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Book Review: Annette Kuhn (2002) An Everyday Magic, Cinema and Cultural Memory, London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN: 1860648673 by Tarik Sabry

“…The cinema audience has in the past not been given a lot of room in film theory; insofar Annette Kuhn’s book ‘An Everyday Magic, Cinema and Cultural Memory’ (2002) fills a rather large gap. …”
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Crossing the boundary: The theory & practice dossier by Davide Abbatescianni, Dan O'Connell

“…Increasingly, it seems that practitioners feel the need to acquire a more comprehensive understanding of film and screen media artworks through film theory while theoreticians aim to gain new, more profound perspectives on the creative process and the technical knowledge preceding the realisation of the finalised artworks. …”
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Beyond the Screen by De Angelis, Eugenio

“…The study adopts an approach based on performance studies and avant-garde film theory to reveal how Terayama moulds the movie-going practice into a performative and collective event, using the movie theatre as a theatrical stage. …”
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The subjective voice and hybrid documentary filmmaking strategies: A case study by Jill Daniels

“…She proposes the notion that film communicates in a sensory mode that may defy written theorisation or interpretation, with a rigor and precision that is quite separate to that of written language, but that nevertheless films, like written language, may add to knowledge. She argues that film theory is essential to enable the filmmaker to raise their work above the narrow framework of craft. …”
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Deconstructing Disney’s divas: a critique of the singing princess as filmic trope by Liske Potgieter, Zelda Potgieter

“… This article contributes to the discourse of the body and the voice in feminist psychoanalytic film theory by exploring the currently under-theorised notion of the singing body in particular, as this notion finds manifestation in Disney’s Singing Princess as filmic trope. …”
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Chantal Akerman y el espíritu de los setenta by Janet Bergstrom, Manuel Palazón (trad.)

“…It is precisely as a question that this feminist film theory, as any definitive answer will always be simplistic. …”
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Un œil nouveauLe Ralenti scientifique à la construction de l’avant-garde by Maria Ida Bernabei

“…In this essay I will examine the contribution of scientific slow motion to 1920s film theory, investigating how this technique conveys an epistemological shift in the concept of revelation, from the scientific observation of the invisible to the naked eye, to the deep understanding of previously unknown aspects of reality. …”
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Effect of feed temperature on concentration polarization and efficiency of reverse osmosis systems by Taha Yaseen Khalaf

“…It is suggested that the combined Spiegler- Kedem/film theory model may be the best method for establishing the mass transfer correlation for a given membrane of reverse osmosis and nanofiltration.…”
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Performing Authorship: Self-inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema, by Cecilia Sayad by Laura Busetta

“…Through phases of critical idealisation, abstraction and even rejection, the figure of the author has attracted sustained interest in film theory debates, giving rise to, for instance, the well-known reflections of the French politique des auteurs, or Andrew Sarris’s auteur theory; and it has survived until today, as evidenced by the recent publication of several contributions, including those by Paisley Livingston, Aaron Meskin, and Berys Gaut. …”
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Permacinema by Anat Pick, Chris Dymond

“…This article charts the contiguity of farming and film, blending permaculture and cinema to advance a modality of sustainable film theory and practice we call “permacinema.” As an alternative approach to looking and labour, permaculture exhibits a suite of cinematic concerns, and offers a model for cinematic creativity that is environmentally accountable and sensitive to multispecies entanglements. …”
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Still-moving Engrams: The Ecstasy of Bodily Gestures in Chronophotography and its Contemporary Reproductions by Francesca Scotto Lavina

“…According to recent film theory, chronophotography reveals that aesthetic fruition is not based on continuity alone, but also on instantaneity, discontinuities of movement and the dichotomy of immobility and motion. …”
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Postmodern messiahs: the changing saviours of contemporary popular culture by Sofia Sjö

“…Using a textual and narrative analysis based on insights gained from feminist film theory and cultural studies, this article looks closely at the messiah theme in science fiction films and TV series from the last three decades. …”
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Freedom smothered by Vesi Vuković

“…The films are explored through the lens of feminist film theory, via close reading. Besides, the concept of the gaze is applied. …”
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