Is God a Woman? Female Faces of God in Contemporary Cinema by Irena Sever Globan

“…This article aims to examine how the art of cinema contributes to theological reflections on the female metaphors of God, particularly through female Christ-figures and God-figures, which occasionally appear in films such as <i>Chocolat</i>, <i>All That Jazz</i>, <i>Always</i>, <i>Dogma</i>, and <i>The Shack</i>. …”
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Vedere senza guardare. Visioni musicali di Norman McLaren by Edoardo Dotto

“…Tra i film di questo genere più riusciti, si trova Begone Dull Care, opera di Norman McLaren realizzata col contributo di Evelyn Lambart, in cui – con un tratto spiccatamente visionario e facendo ricorso alle tecniche più diverse – si costruisce un’animazione perfettamente sincronizzata con la musica scritta appositamente dal pianista jazz Oscar Peterson. …”
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City Noir by John Adams: a Way to Interpretation by Tatiana V. Tsaregradskaya

“…Dedicated to conductor Dudamel, the orchestral composition City Noir balances in terms of genre between a three-movement symphony, a soundtrack to a film and a jazz suite, relegating the listener’s imagination to the cult figures in jazz during the 1950s, the experience of composing in the jazz idiom (among such composers as Milhaud and Gershwin) and to elements of ekphrasis (referring to Wat Disney’s unique concert hall constructed by the ingenious architect Frank Gary). …”
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Implicarea deconstrucției filosofice în muzica lui John Zorn by Livia Georgeta Suciu

“…For example, by transgressing all the boundaries between musical styles and currents, he created a lot of new and surprising musical fusion experiments: very diverse musical styles were hybridized, jazz music, classical music or traditional klezmer music, merged with the extremes of rock, heavy metal, hardcore, noise, atonal music, film music or improvisational experiments. …”
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Music in János Térey’s Verse Novel A Legkisebb Jégkorszak [The Shortest Ice Age] by Lenke Kocsis

“…Mentioning composers, singers, bands, and well-known musical events and citing lyrics have all been well-established and commonplace practices in literature throughout the ages. …”
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