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Sur quelques films “sylphiques”
Published 2024-10-01“…Based on the study of two contemporary photochemical experimental films - Zillertal by Jürgen Reble (1991/1997), sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars by Tomonari Nishikawa (2014) - and a documentary from the 1980s - Chernobyl, A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks by Ukrainian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko (1986) -, which we define as “sylphic”, in reference to the writings of the alchemist Paracelsus, for their material capacity to make visible in striking ways the “chaos” or “vital space” of the atmospheres with which they come into contact, we propose to explore the ways in which the notion of atmosphere is becoming central to new theoretical approaches to media.…”
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Caught in a “mousetrap”: An analysis of the relationship of the local population with the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in film and television productions (1990–2021)
Published 2024-06-01“…Indeed, a recurrent characteristic of the film and television productions of the countries most affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster (Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia) has been the representation of the land and the inhabitants’ relationship with it (Lindbladh 2019). …”
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De Falkenau aux ruines de Verboten! (1959), les dialectiques formelles de Samuel Fuller
Published 2022-05-01“…The discovery of the Czechoslovakian town of Falkenau and the nearby concentration camp was a traumatic experience for him, which he evoked forty years later in the documentary Falkenau, The Impossible (1986). The 16 mm footage he recorded there illuminates, in hindsight, the visual style Fuller developed in his films. …”
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Eternity Descending into Time: Badiou and the Cinematic Temporality of Love
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AIDS, Caregiving and Kinship: The Queer “Family” in Bill Sherwood’s Parting Glances
Published 2017-03-01“…As a counterpoint to the emerging homonormativity of the twenty-first century, this paper seeks to identify and reevaluate the potential of queer chosen families as they are cinematically mediated, and historically located, in the context of the AIDS epidemic. With Bill Sherwood’s 1986 film Parting Glances as a case study, the paper argues that the melodramatic mode of these films, with the repetition of tropes such as caregiving, mourning and funerals, ushers an alternative mode of familiality into queer narratives and champions the queer chosen family. …”
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The Bell Jar : Troubles dans le genre
Published 2023-12-01“…The blurred line between fiction and non-fiction genres was the central question during the 1986 libel lawsuit against the film crew of the 1979 film adaptation of The Bell Jar. …”
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La salle de cinéma comme attraction spectacle : le cas Captain Eo à Disneyland Paris
Published 2012-04-01“…We have to understand how Coppola’s film and projection context – Disneyland Paris Park – allow us to think or question a different type of spectatorial practice than in another movie theater.…”
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