Cinéma et critique by Shiguéhiko Hasumi

“…While undoubtedly provocative, his opinions were based above all on detailed knowledge of contemporary debates in literary and film theory, philosophy, and semiology.…”
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Cinéma et littérature by Shiguéhiko Hasumi

“…While undoubtedly provocative, his opinions were based above all on detailed knowledge of contemporary debates in literary and film theory, philosophy, and semiology.…”
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Le cinéma comme institution by Shiguéhiko Hasumi

“…While undoubtedly provocative, his opinions were based above all on detailed knowledge of contemporary debates in literary and film theory, philosophy, and semiology.…”
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Disgelo, purgatorio ed esilio: la Guerra Fredda con gli occhi di Andrej Tarkovskij by Luca CARDONE

“…Placing cinema, life and history in a dialectical relationship, the text proposes a horizontal analysis of the director’s works, excluding the major concepts of Tarkovsky’s film theory, in order to address the Cold War as the canvas and matrix of his works. …”
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Films Of P. Ramlee : An Analysis Of Sexual Politics And Social Class Conflicts by Ooi, Chia-Yi

“…The analyses of these six films were according to the structure of both textual and narrative analysis methods; which provides the analytical principles to illustrate the functionality and applicability of the feminist film theory of psychoanalysis and Marxist class conflict approach to film.…”
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Le récit, la narration et leurs discours by Shiguéhiko Hasumi

“…While undoubtedly provocative, his opinions were based above all on detailed knowledge of contemporary debates in literary and film theory, philosophy, and semiology.…”
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Art films foster theory of mind by Emanuele Castano

“…This article builds on the symmetry between literary theory and film theory and investigates whether exposure to art films, but not Hollywood films, enhances ToM. …”
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La valle dell’Eden: Steinbeck, Kazan, Latella by Vincenzo Maggitti

“…In order to do that, the author has also drawn from film theory, mostly concerning Cinemascope, as it was the technical, and blatantly commercial device that mainly contributed to rewrite characters’ relation for the screen in Elia Kazan’s movie with the same title (East of Eden). …”
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VR Stories of Travel and Exile: Forensic Storytelling and the Politics of Dynamic Framing by Blandine Joret

“…In so doing, I re-examine and bring into dialogue three existing strands in film theory from the perspective of VR: an aesthetics of discovery (Andrew, 2007), the idea of liberal and embodied perception (Bazin 1953, Sobchack 2004) and an implied connection between film spectatorship and forensics (Benjamin 1931 & 1939). …”
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Shame: Ingmar Bergman’s Vietnam War by Hedling Erik

“…Furthermore, questions about meaning and interpretation regarding film viewing are dealt with, taking into consideration developments in contemporary film theory.…”
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Queer and Feminist Futures: The Importance of a Future and Mobilising Feminist Film in Post Times by Jasmina Šepetavc

“…We attempt to think about time and the future through queer and Deleuzian feminist film theory, specifically the feminist film Born in Flames. …”
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The Gaze as constituent and annihilator by Mats Carlsson

“…In trying to shake off the burden of the 1970s film theory's distortion of the Lacanian Gaze, rejuvenating it with the strength of the Real and fusing it with Freudian thoughts on the uncanny, hopefully this new dawn can be reached. …”
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Neurocinematics and the Discourse of Control: Towards a Critical Neurofilmology by Maria Poulaki

“…In the first part of the article I suggest that the use of control in neurocinematics on the one hand relies on a similarly problematic – but still more nuanced – use of the notion in cognitive film theory, and on the other hand reflects a unidirectional model of communication which brackets out noisy cases that diverge from predictable behavior. …”
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Seeing Voices: Cinema, Rhetoric, and Subjectivity by James Martin

“…In this paper I draw upon Lacanian film theory – specifically the notion of “the gaze” – to explain how film enacts a form of rhetorical “exigence” that disrupts the visual field to stimulate spectators’ desire and invite resolution. …”
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Interstices and impurities in the cinema: Art and science by Angela Dalle Vacche

“…Through a close analysis of Alain Resnais’s Mon Oncle d’Amerique (1980), Angela Dalle Vacche argues that the French filmmaker interrogates the “humanity” of humans through art, science, and religion in the light of Andre Bazin’s film theory. On the scientific side, Resnais’s film clarifies Bazin’s modified Darwinian scheme about the history of the cinema. …”
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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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Objects, Speed, and the Film within the Film: Vachel Lindsay and Classical Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere by Juan A. Suárez

“…This essay reads Vachel Lindsay’s film theory as symptomatic of an oscillation, still present in the period of early classical cinema, between the ordering effect of the classical codes and the centrifugal potential of the film image. …”
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Subcinema: Theorizing Marginal Film Distribution by Ramon Lobato

“…Between the multiplex and the art house lays a terrain of global film culture, which is inadequately accounted for in much contemporary film theory. Piracy operations, diasporic networks, cult markets, popular video industries – circuits such as these operate outside and alongside conventional channels of film distribution. …”
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Editorial by Editor

“…In trying to formulate a film theory that deals with all these elementary characteristics poses a serious problem. …”
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Treatment of Aqueous Effluents from Steel Manufacturing with High Thiocyanate Concentration by Reverse Osmosis by José R. Álvarez, F. Enrique Antón, Sonia Álvarez-García, Susana Luque

“…No short-term fouling was observed, and the data followed the known solution-diffusion model and the film theory. Those models, together with non-steady state mass balances, were used in simulations that aided to design a full scale two-stage RO plant for thiocyanate separation.…”
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