A Review of Understand Film Studies by Ali Sheikhmehdi, Arsalan Moghadas

“…The book Understand Film Studies aims to equip its reader with necessary concepts for film critique; in this regard, the author describes the definitions of aesthetic and film structure, film genres and documentary, and by giving examples and expressing the basic concepts of each one, it aims to clarify the topics. …”
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“Life Would Never Feel This Good Again”: The Use of Pastiche in Edgar Wright’s The World’s End (2013) by Diana Ortega Martin

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A Critical Review on the Book The Fantasy Film by Ali Khorashadi, Mohammad Shahba

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The Making-of Documentary: An Approximation to some Discourse Intentions and Contemporary Uses by Armando Andrade Zamarripa

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“Check Your Network Connection”: Cyberpunk Visions of Disembodied Labor in Sleep Dealer by Michael Pitts

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American Studies in Norway: Past and Present by Ole O. Moen

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Film and Audiovisual Education in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Approaches and Challenges by Elisa Farinacci

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USAmerican Studies in the United Kingdom by Richard Ellis

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Zamanın ve Mekânın Dönüşümüyle Güney Kore Sinemasından Türk Sinemasına Yeniden Çevrim: Miracle in Cell No.7 (2013) ve 7. Koğuştaki Mucize (2019) Filmleri by Nergiz Gündel

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« Gênes 2001 », événement de longue durée by Maxime Boidy, Marie Fabre, Alice Leroy

“…The twelve contributions in this Laboratoire italien issue examine the record of the Genoa G8 counter-summit in July 2001, twenty years after its ferocious repression by the Italian police, by cross-referencing perspectives from social sciences, literary studies, oral narratives, film studies and visual studies.…”
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De la sémiologie à la sémio-pragmatique, du texte aux espaces mentaux de communication by Roger Odin, Julien Péquignot

“…Co-founder of film studies in France, student of Algirdas Julien Greimas and Christian Metz, Roger Odin works from many years on a pioneering heuristic theoretical model, the semio-pragmatic, which stands considering the flipside of the audience’s doxic experience in order to apprehend its operation and issues. …”
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Re-representing “The Great American Institution that Never Gets Mentioned on the Fourth of July” by Cristelle Maury

“…For this purpose, and given Todd Haynes’s affinities with feminist film studies and feminist theories at large, it looks at the transformations of the representation of women’s work, at the status of feminist discourses and at the introduction of two new parameters, race and class from an intersectional perspective.…”
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Speculative Transitions: Hegel, John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Dissolve by Joshua Harold Wiebe

“…This article draws out a potential encounter between Hegel and film studies. Following a line of thought instantiated by Theodor Adorno, it constructs a method of reading Hegel through cinematic formal analysis. …”
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Substitute locations of urban spaces in films shot in Spain: motivations, representations and consequences by Víctor Aertsen, Carlos Manuel Valdés, Antonio Martínez Puche

“…Although the use of one location to stand in for another is a common film practice, it hasn’t received much attention in film studies and related fields. To improve this situation, we start with a brief review of three moments of Hollywood’s history where substitute locations have been central as an industrial practice, cultural debate and promotional strategy, and we propose six parameters that we consider of interest to pursue a detailed analysis of this phenomenon, especially in urban environments. …”
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ADD C FOR CONTEXT: WHAT CAN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTORS FROM THE HUMANITIES CONTRIBUTE TORESEARCH IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION? by Dror Abend-David, James Kusch

“…What are some of the challenges and opportunities faced by language instructors who are trained in Literature, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Philosophy, Translation Studies and other fields in the Humanities? …”
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‘Soglitude’- introducing a method of thinking thresholds by Tatjana Barazon

“…The contributions gathered in this special issue come from various disciplines: anthropology, philosophy, critical theory, film studies, political science, literature and history. …”
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Revisiting Weimar Film Reviewers’ Sentiments: Integrating Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models by Isadora Campregher Paiva, Josephine Diecke

“…Film reviews are an obvious area for the application of sentiment analysis, but while this is common in the field of computer science, it has been mostly absent in film studies. Film scholars have quite rightly been skeptical of such techniques due to their inability to grasp nuanced critical texts. …”
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Madrid, la ciudad quimera by Bénédicte Brémard

“…For the protagonists in the films studied, Madrid is both a screen on which they project their dreams and a monstrous figure capable of swallowing them and against which they have to fight. …”
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Les représentations filmiques de Marie Stuart– Une femme de pouvoir dans l’air du temps by Armel Dubois-Nayt

“…In the case of the first two films studied, it appears that she is used to illustrate the debates triggered by the women’s suffrage movement and the women’s liberation movement. …”
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Biocomposite Active Whey Protein Films with Thyme Reinforced by Electrospun Polylactic Acid Fiber Mat by Andreea (Lanciu) Dorofte, Iulia Bleoanca, Florentina Ionela Bucur, Gabriel Mustatea, Daniela Borda, Felicia Stan, Catalin Fetecau

“…WF/G4 exhibited 33.73% of the WVP of WF/G1 and displayed the highest tensile strength, about 2.70 times higher than WF/TEO. All films studied revealed similar antimicrobial effect against <i>Bacillus cereus</i>, <i>Geotrichum candidum</i>, and <i>Rhodotorula glutinis</i> and good antiradical activity, thus demonstrating good prospects to be applied as food packaging materials. …”
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