Dossier on Govan Young : Exploring children's historical consciousness through film and archaeology by Stephen T. Driscoll, Catherine Doherty, Mia Perry

“…This dossier brings together four essays that reflect on the film from various academic perspectives – film studies, archaeology and education – to explore how schoolchildren might learn about the past, and develop a historical consciousness, by participating in film-making projects. …”
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Everything is Illuminated. Zur Numerischen Analyse von Farbigkeit in Filmen by Johannes Pause, Niels-Oliver Walkowski

“…It first evaluates some of the methodological problems of common colour-quantisation by using clustering-algorithms in the context of film studies, then a new developed process is presented which builds on the theory of colour contrasts by Johannes Itten. …”
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A Debt Repaid: Shout-out to videogame adaptations by Jacopo Wassermann

“…In the process of nearing a new understanding of these cultural and industrial artifacts, a cross-examination of key concepts belonging to three fields of studies (game studies, film studies and adaptation studies) opens up the possibility of an interdisciplinary cooperation aimed at the adjustment and rectification of mutual assumptions and misconceptions.…”
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A Animação do Cinema by Alan Cholodenko

“… Este ensaio procura reavivar o nome, a obra e as realizações do mais significante pioneiro animador do filme, na melhor das hipóteses, marginalizado e, na pior, apagado pelos Film Studies e Animation Studies de língua inglesa: Émile Reynaud. …”
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Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst (eds.): <i>New Perspectives on Early Cinema History: Concepts, Approaches, Audiences by Denise Youngblood

“… New Perspectives on Early Cinema History is a selection of papers originally presented at an international conference held in Ghent, Belgium in 2018, organised by this book’s editors: Mario Slugan, a lecturer in film studies at Queen Mary, University of London (and a former editor at Apparatus), and Daniël Biltereyst, a professor of film and media studies at Ghent University and director of its centre for film and media studies. …”
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Parcours croisés de Dominique Cabrera, cinéaste, et de ses proches collaborateurs. by Adeline Lamberbourg

“…In France, social sciences and humanities have paid little attention to the profession of film director. Film studies and the press are much less interested in the professional careers of technical teams in comparison with the lives of actors and authors of projects who seem to be cut into their inner creativity. …”
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Dramatic Structure Transformations in the Iraqi Feature Film by Ban Jabbar Khalaf

“…The research topic (The dramatic structure transformations in the Iraqi Feature Film) studies the dramatic structure and its transformations in the Iraqi feature film. …”
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Perspectives: a round-table discussion on decolonial pedagogies by Lindiwe Dovey, Nina Mangalanayagam, Jyoti Mistry

“…<p class="first" id="d39327491e122"> Three practitioners – a film-maker, a photographer and a film curator, all working in higher education, teaching film production, photography and film studies – discuss their reflections on co-convening a decolonising pedagogy workshop–conference hosted in May 2019 at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. …”
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Against a Migrant Cinema. Critical Reflections on the Postcolonial Perspective by Raffaele Pavoni

“…This has given rise to a re-evaluation of postcolonial studies, applied to the film studies (Heffelfinger, Wright 2011; Ponzanesi, Waller 2012). …”
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Nuevas perspectivas, nuevas cartografías: de los Gay Studies a la teoría Queer / New Perspectives, New Cartographies: From Gay Studies to the Queer Theory by Alberto Mira Nouselles

“…The «gay» model was the minoritizing response to proposals considered as marginalizing. In terms of film studies most of the approaches to gay issues in Spain still assume this paradigm. …”
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Vulnerable Bodies: Subverting Masculine Normativity in Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s Boquitas pintadas by Assen Kokalov

“…Using the critical approaches related to queer, gender, feminist, and film studies elaborated by R. W. Connell, Judith Butler, David William Foster, and Alexander Doty, among others, I explore the function of the male body in the construction of traditional masculinity within the context of rural 1930s Argentina portrayed in the film. …”
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A (Tall) Tale of Two Sisters: Integrating rhetorical and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to explore unreliable narration in film by Johanet Kriel

“… There is a sustained debate in the academy about the role of narratology in film studies. This article forms part of this larger debate in exploring the application of the concept of unreliable narration to films, specifically to Jee-woon Kim’s little-known but exceptional film A Tale of Two Sisters (2003). …”
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The Rise of the TV-Cinemaniac. New Audiences for New TV Series by Daniela Cardini

“…As a consequence, the portrait of a new viewer can be identified: the “Tv-Cinemaniac” comes out of a mix of viewing practices, technological skills, media knowledge and common sense whose pros and cons should  be considered in the framework of Italian television and film studies.…”
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ECREA2012, 4th European Communication Conference (2012) by Gertjan Willems

“…With six panels and twenty-six scheduled presentations, the film studies section was among the smaller sections of the conference (along with such sections as philosophy of communication and radio research), but succeeded as well as any other section to excel in diversity. …”
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First-Person Emotions: Affective Neuroscience and the Spectator’s Self by Enrico Carocci

“…As neuroscience is well equipped to offer insights into cinematic emotional experience, a stimulating dialogue between film studies and neuroscience has been engaged. The present article proposes that an affective neuroscience approach may constitute a valuable framework for empirical investigations of the qualities of cinematic emotional experience. …”
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The Performance of Digital Play by Emma Westecott

“…To date, games studies (the academic field that analyses videogames from a humanities perspective) has drawn from the fields of play theory, psychology, sociology, film studies, cyber culture, literary and media theory as well as visual anthropology to map its roots. …”
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A (Tall) Tale of Two Sisters: Integrating rhetorical and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to explore unreliable narration in film by Johanet Kriel

“… There is a sustained debate in the academy about the role of narratology in film studies. This article forms part of this larger debate in exploring the application of the concept of unreliable narration to films, specifically to Jee-woon Kim’s little-known but exceptional film A Tale of Two Sisters (2003). …”
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Film Audiences: Personal Journeys with Film, by Bridgette Wessels, Peter Merrington, Matthew Hanchard and David Forrest with the Beyond the Multiplex Team. Manchester University Pr... by M. Sellers Johnson

“…The question of audience formation has, at times, been neglected in film studies, in favour of auteur-centric interests, sociopolitical commentary, and textual analysis. …”
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La retenue et l’excès : comment Miike Takashi a accédé au circuit des festivals internationaux by Tom Mes

“…Japanese cinema has played a central role in film studies, but its canon of master directors and classic films obscures more than it reveals. …”
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Subject-Position and Béla Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936) in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) by Sarah Lucas

“…Eric Clarke identifies subject-position in music as “the way in which characteristics of the musical material shape the general character of a listener’s response or engagement,” a definition based on earlier explorations of subject-position in film studies. My analysis of the subject-position of Bartók’s piece and the scenes in which excerpts of the work appear in The Shining reveals similarities in their potential effect on an audience member.…”
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