French Poetic Realism and American Noir: “It’s always too late’” by Rebecca Martin

“…This paper investigates the connections between French Poetic Realism of the 1930s and American film noir and argues that their significance has been understated. …”
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What Language Does the French “Musical Comedy” Speak? On Some Stylistic Experiments of the Legrand — Demy Tandem by Platonova Olesia A.

“…In the first part of the article the author examines the French sources of the American musical (from the comedy-ballet Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Moliere and Lully to the operettas by Jacques Offenbach), which allow us to comprehend the deep connection of the genre with the European art of the past and to understand the naturalness of the appeal to the idea of the musical by Demy and Legrand. …”
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Identifying the Unknown Girl by Jamie Nicholas Steele

“…This article critically analyses La fille inconnue/The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2016) as a genre film that operates through a transnational mix of references to the French noir and neo-noir traditions. …”
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„Cadre de vie”. Jean-Luc Godard’s „Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle” (1967), French TV and Architectural Discourse by Jacqueline Maurer

“…The main interest of the text lies in the use of the 360-degree pan shot and the notion of cadre (frame), as they connect film theory and the contemporary discourse about how the décor, i.e. the (built) environment, influences people’s cadre de vie (living conditions). …”
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Stratégies discursives et communicationnelles de persuasion dans les genres journalistiques d'opinion: le cas des critiques de cinéma by Dominika Topa-Bryniarska

“…On the basis of a corpus consisting of forty reviews of the French comedy Intouchables (2011) selected from various film magazines and web pages, the author offers a reflection on the nature and functions of the genre “film review”. …”
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La critique de cinéma comme activité rhétorique by Dominika Topa-Bryniarska

“… Film review as a rhetorical activity The paper discusses the discursive construction of persuasiveness in media language. …”
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Shot and Counter-shot: Presence, Obscurity, and the Breakdown of Discourse in Godard’s Notre Musique by Burlin Barr

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La matière du jouet jugée par des écrivains by Hélène Lenz

“…First, this analysis considers the functions of childish and adult play—according to the definition of Huizinga—in French texts of the 19th and 20th century. Secondly, a Rumanian album of 2002 (text by Mircea Cărtărescu, illustrations by Tudor Bănuș) Enciclopedia Zmeilor / The Encyclopedia of Dragons is quoted for his representation of the magic nowadays frequent in the art of film: the passage from real life (biological) to virtual existence (numerical). …”
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Benjaminian Reminiscences in Deleuze’s and Daney’s Dialogue about Images in Control Societies by Aline Wiame

“…This article examines Gilles Deleuze’s 1986 letter to French film critic Serge Daney about cinema, television, and images in control societies through a Benjaminian lens. …”
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Variations V: "Escaping Stagnation" Through Movement of Signification by Elizabeth Hoover

“…Instead of orchestral instrumentalists performing live on their trumpets, cellos, and violins, recorded and radio sounds filled the concert hall through six speakers "distributed around Philharmonic Hall" (Hughes "Leaps" 1965:10); the choreographed movements of seven dancers occupied the stage; and filmed images projected on a screen behind them. The performance was an over-whelming multimedia display, with no immediate connection between the various modes of artistic expression.…”
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I am Recoding the Sound of My Speaking Voice. Enunciation in Alvin Lucier's I'm Sitting in a Room by Anette Vandsoe

“…Though the question of enunciation has been touched upon in several analyses of this piece, none of them have connected it to the strong and vast theoretical field established by the French linguist Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) and further developed by numerous phenomenologically-oriented analytical approaches, particularly in relation to literary and film studies. …”
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ARCHITECTONICS OF THE SILENCE IN VERCORS’ NOVEL “THE SILENCE OF THE SEA” by Tatyana A. Pakhareva

“…Vercors’ novel “The Silence of the Sea” is one of the French Resistance defining texts, and, at the same time, the part of silence texts’ circle in world literature that constitute a powerful paradigm. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Grotesque Components in the Two works of Jean Teulé's Suicide Shop and Houshang Golshiri's Prince Ehtjab by Rouhollah Nematollahi

“…In this research, the grotesque elements in two works, Prince Ehtjab by Houshang Golshiri and Shop of Suicide by the French writer Jean Teulé, are examined and compared.  …”
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Voyeuristi alla finestra: Peeping Tom, dalla leggenda al cinema by Laura Staiano

“…The paper is based on a study of the Anglo-Saxon legend of Lady Godiva and it is strictly connected with the subject of my dissertation in progress – metaphorical and physical blindness in 18th century French literature (since several voyeurs got blind because of their instincts and desires). …”
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