Une histoire oubliée : la genèse française du terme « film noir » dans les années 1930 et ses implications transnationales by Thomas Pillard

“…According to the established historiography, the generic label “film noir” was used in France in 1946 to refer to a series of Hollywood crime fictions produced in the 1940s and 1950s. Since then, the term has been exclusively associated with Hollywood pictures and “film noir” has been considered a specifically American form. …”
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Images d’un camp de vacances en pays socialiste by Ania Szczepanska

“…Pour cela, il élabore un protocole de travail singulier : aux vacanciers s’ajoutent des personnes complices du cinéaste dont le rôle sera pour certains de participer activement à la vie collective, pour d’autres de s’y opposer.Tourné en 1976, le documentaire Comment vivre attendra cinq années avant d’être diffusé en salle, en tant que fiction. Pourquoi cette diffusion retardée et surtout, que penser de cette requalification a posteriori ? …”
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Literary seduction: Minds, bodies and non-textual phenomena by Michael BURKE

“…I will argue that in order to fully understand why readers continue to read a work of fiction, one must be aware of all the dimensions of literary seduction: both the textual and non-textual. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book After the Prophet by Yazdan Farrokhi

“…It seems that the author, while observing the principles of historical research, has used areas such as psychology, cinema, fiction, anthropology and has studied the historical roots of the current crisis of Muslims in the Middle East, especially in Iraq. …”
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Exploring family models and SDG number five in picture books. Dialogical alternatives for secondary education by Amando López-Valero, Lourdes Hernández-Delgado, Isabel Jerez-Martínez, Eduardo Encabo-Fernández

“…The literature, as a medium of fiction based on reality, reflects social changes, including the organization of families. …”
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La peur dans The City of Dreadful Night (1874) de James Thomson by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…The 19th century city, in real life and fiction alike, concentrated and crystallized society’s most deep-seated fears and became a favourite locale for anxiety and anguish. …”
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Literatura populară în lumina tiparului. Bibliofilie românească în colecţiile Bibliotecii Naţionale a României by Andreea Răsboiu

“…Being the result of a documentary research in bibliology, this paper aims to bring to light literary and bibliophilic treasures found among the first Romanian fiction books and nowadays kept within the National Library of Romania patrimony. …”
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Le théâtre historique pour la jeunesse sous la Restauration et la monarchie de Juillet : propagande royale ou éducation politique ? by Calderone Amélie

“…What was the purpose of these dramatized historical fiction? Were they supposed to teach History, thus supporting a discipline that was progressively taking centre stage in education? …”
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Towards a Conceptual Model of Users’ Expectations of an Autonomous In-Vehicle Multimodal Experience by Ecem Berfin Ince, Kyungjoo Cha, Junghyun Cho

“…To answer this question, five sessions of design fiction workshops were separately conducted with 17 people to understand the users’ expectations of the multimodal experience in autonomous vehicles. …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…This paper explores how the aesthetic, narrative, and stylistic strategies of Crapalachia help navigate the local, national, and global routes of fictions of disregard. …”
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Real Person Fanfiction and the Construction of the (Un)Ethical Fan by Lauren Balser

“…Though RPF remains a staple of fandom, the fans that write and read it are often moralised for their alleged misunderstanding of what constitutes a fictional character. Consequently, much of RPF studies focuses on fans’ construction of the celebrity persona. …”
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Women, war and cinema, 1939-1945: blitz on gender stereotypes? by Elizabeth de Cacqueray

“…En analysant une grande variété de films produits pendant la guerre, de genres cinématographiques différents – films de fiction, documentaires, films émanant des forces armées – on est témoin de l’émergence d’un nouveau type d’héroïne cinématographique, l’« héroïne de guerre », innovatrice dans le courage et l’esprit d’initiative dont elle peut faire preuve mais, en fin de compte, respectueuse des frontières des rôles traditionnels associés aux genres masculins et féminin. …”
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Czarny kryminał i nieklasyczna narracja. „Wielki sen” Howarda Hawksa, „Żegnaj laleczko” Edwarda Dmytryka i „Tajemnica jeziora” Roberta Montgomery’ego by Patrycja Włodek

“…Jego twórcy, stosując narrację pierwszoosobową lub jej ekwiwalenty, nie tylko dochowywali „wierności” adaptowanym powieściom hard-boiled fiction, ale też zauważali nieadekwatność linearnej narracji klasycznej do nastrojów panujących w USA czasu II wojny światowej i okresu powojennego. …”
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Semantic classification of substantives of the lexical-semantic field “Intellekt” in H. Hesse's novel “The Glass Bead Game” and its translation into the Russian language by L.I. Gimatova

“…The results of the study allow to draw a conclusion about the propriety and efficiency of the field method for studying the lexical-semantic field “Intellekt”, in particular, its substantives within the work of fiction as it allows to identify both its semantically dominant and unique features.…”
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Transforming the Chaos: The ‘Writing’ Experiments of the Postdigital Ludic Writer by Katy Wareham Morris

“…The multimodal writer does not simply write a poem or piece of fiction, but also architects a dynamic, ludic space in order to ‘publish’ the piece. …”
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Reverent Induction: Epistemology and the Romantic Education of the Child Reader in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863) by Laura H. Clarke

“…In his essays and fiction for children, Kingsley champions inductive reason, the process of making generalizations from specific observations, and criticizes deductive reason, the process of arriving at definite conclusions on the basis of general theories. …”
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From Scientific Innovation to Popularisation of Science: Theoretical Model of Science Communication by S. M. Medvedeva

“…The model consists of 5 elements: phase of a scientist (generation of ideas); phase of scientific community (promotion of the ideas among scientists); phase of interested groups (communication with business and government, education of future scientists); phase of popular science (promotion of ideas into mass culture); phase of fiction (subject of communication becomes not scientific knowledge, but myth about science). …”
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Narracja parametryczna by David Bordwell

“…Tekst jest tłumaczeniem rozdziału Parametric Narration z książki Davida Bordwella Narration in the Fiction Film, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1985. © 1985 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. …”
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Ecrire et souffrir : L’inspiration partagée de Constance Fenimore Woolson et de Henry James by Jeannine Hayat

“…It seems impossible to separate what is Woolson’s and what is Henry James’s in four works of fiction that are in fact to be read together : Miss Grief, The Figure in the Carpet, The Beast in the Jungle, The Wings of the Dove.…”
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Love Is in the AI of the BeholderArtificial Intelligence and Characters of Love by Renata E. NTELIA

“…It shows how AI has moved from the sphere of science fiction to become a reality in everyday life, which makes our interactions with it much more personal, and our perception of it as something human-like, if not yet human. …”
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