Beyond Choice: Reading Sigmund Freud at the End of <i>Roe</i> by Karen McFadyen

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Aplikovaná folkloristika. Jak rozumět mainstreamovým filmům? by Jaroslav Otčenášek

“…Analysis and intepretation of film art is primarily domain of the film studies; approach of this discipline could be also supplemented by applied folkloristics. …”
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Hollywood’s Terror Industry: Idealized beauty and The Bluest Eye by E C Koch

“…Keywords:The Bluest Eye, Racial Hegemony, Film Studies, Terror, Ideals of Beauty.…”
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Nella terra di mezzo: cinema e immigrazione in Italia, 1990-2010 by Vanoli, G

“…Beyond the scope of film analysis, it aims to add a contextualization of the social, political and cultural issues that connect migration and cinema, at the point where film studies and cultural studies converge. </p>…”

Paesaggi seriali. L’uso del cronotopo narrativo nella serialità televisiva by Andrea Bernardelli

“…Recentemente, sia nei film studies sia nei TV studies, è cresciuto un interesse maggiore per questo problema e sono nati studi sulle location (Waade-Lynch 2017). …”
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Cine (Trans) nacional: festivales de cine y marcas de identidad by Carolina Soria

“…The last decade saw the emergence of numerous film studies that put the spotlight on to that concept, questioning to phenomena such as globalization, multiculturalism and hybridization, as well as facing new ways of coproduction and exhibition whose epicenter at film festivals. …”
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Towards an open cinema: Revisiting Alain Bergala's The Cinema Hypothesis within a global field of film education by Jamie Chambers

“…Drawing upon some of the debates surrounding de-Westernizing film studies (Bâ and Higbee, 2012), this study explores notions of the global before situating a re-evaluation of The Cinema Hypothesis within that frame. …”
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Dossier: Screen Advertising. Introduction by Emily Caston

“…It invokes a larger conversation about the nature of film studies in the academy since it emerged within the paradigm of literary studies in Britain and the USA in the 1970s. …”
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Reframing diaspora cinema by Alexander De Man

“…In the wake of a transnational and postcolonial shift within film studies, “diaspora cinema” has been increasingly understood in its imbrication with Third Cinema, postcolonial cinema, transnational cinema, accented cinema, intercultural cinema, cinema of transvergence, etc. …”
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Perspectives: A dialogue upon the question of value in film education by Alan Bernstein, Andrew Burn

“…While film-makers and audiences have visceral experiences of the value of cinema, these experiences are troubled by a contemporary film studies that tends to adopt a more relativist approach, suggesting that the experience of value is reflective of sociocultural subjectivity. …”
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Effets de présence, délocalisations et relocalisations des images : le médium en quête d’espace ? by Benjamin Philippe Léon

“…<p>Retour sur la “XII MAGIS - Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School”, qui aura permis durant une semaine d’élaborer une somme de réflexions autour des images à l’heure du contemporain. …”
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Traveling Styles: Or the Challenge of Approaching Commercial Hindi Cinema as World Cinema by Alexandra Schneider

“… This article proposes a contribution to a methodological and theoretical discussion in contemporary film studies: how to study and teach cinema cultures in the age of globalization? …”
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A Companion to Classical Receptions by A. De Villiers

“…Throughout the book they stay true to this motto and traditional approaches to classical reception are not given prominence over more recent (sometimes contentious) approaches such as film studies, cultural politics and photography. The same goes for the various cultures involved and there is even a chapter on Greek drama in South Africa.…”
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From the Editors by Łukasz Burkiewicz, Grażyna Zając

“…Not so long ago we talked with Ula about her idea of creating a permanent film studies section in Perspectives on Culture. Although we were unable to put this idea into motion, we would like to return to it in the near future and dedicate one of the issues of Perspectives on Culture to the memory of Dr. …”
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Lukács, prècurseur d'une esthétique géopolitique? Le concept de totalité au service du cinéma postcolonial by Delphine Wehrli

“…This article questions a new proposition: the reviving of film studies by a non-dogmatic “come back” to the remaining lessons of Lukács and the possibility of their practice in the postcolonial studies. …”
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Phenomenological Considerations on Time Consciousness under Neurocinematic Search Light by Pia Tikka, Mauri Kaipainen

“…Neurocinematic methods may provide film studies with new tools for re-evaluating established filmmaking conventions and developing new ways to study, for instance, the film viewer’s experience and related aspects of time consciousness. …”
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Pornographic Confessions? Sex Work and <i>Scientia Sexualis</i> in Foucault and Linda Williams by Chloë Taylor

“…Against an influential misinterpretation of this passage on the part of film studies scholar Linda Williams, this paper takes up Foucault’s claim and attempts to explain the mechanism through which the sex industry, and pornography in particular, functions analogously to the sexual sciences in terms of the normalizing form of power that Foucault describes. …”
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Neurocinematics and the Discourse of Control: Towards a Critical Neurofilmology by Maria Poulaki

“…The dialogue between film studies and neuroscience can become more complex too, escaping from a problematic definition of film effectiveness with regards to predictable viewer reactions. …”
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Crossing Borders in Film Theory and Adaptation Studies by Cezar Gheorghe

“…From the Russian Formalists which, in their Poetica Kino (Poetics of cinema) adapt concepts initially created as part of literary theory (fabula vs. syuzhet, film as language, cine-stylistics) to David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson and their formalist inspired approach to film studies, from André Bazin and his theory of realism, inspired by phenomenological concepts, the history of film theory can be thought of as a genealogy of crossing borders. …”
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Film is a woman. The manifestation of femininity in the work of Maria Sadowska based on Women’s Day by Piotr Sieńko

“…This is preceded by an introduction, which outlines the subject matter addressed by Sadowska, and accompanied by an overview of the basic assumptions of feminist perspective in film studies.…”
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