Empowering women on screen: exploring the influence of female protagonists on contemporary culture and gendered enjoyment in film by Fokiya Akhtar, Azmat Rasul

“…A prevalent notion in the film industry across the globe suggests that female-led films may underperform, leading producers to avoid casting women as leads. …”
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Gerçekliğin Katmanları Arasından Üçüncü Sinemaya Doğru: “Ben, Daniel Blake” by Azime Cantaş, Meral Serarslan

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Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies by Greg Hainge

“…Analysing Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013), this article provides an overview of the importation of suture theory from psychoanalysis into film theory and Žižek’s revisiting of this theory, then bringing about a rapprochement between the concepts of suture and Malabou’s destructive plasticity, as expounded in her work The New Wounded. …”
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The Haunted House in Contemporary Filmic and Literary Gothic Narratives of Trauma by Monica Michlin

“…These Gothic texts or films often stage maze imagery that simultaneously captures the characters’ feelings of terror and alienation, and Gothic postmodern texts’ complexity, playing on their status as “haunted houses” of images and/or words, and, in an ultimate gothic twist, on the “ghosting” of the text itself.…”
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Cinéma et lien : une enquête intime auprès d'une famille italienne en Lorraine by Marion Froger, Émilie Tullio

“…Cross-cultural experiences often shake the foundation of the migrants' values, yet cinema makes it possible to overcome this state of alienation since every film stimulates ethical reflection – and thus the search for justice – by creating a sense of universal solidarity. …”
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Roteiro de viagem ao país de Lacan by Laéria Fontenele

“…Assim, por exemplo, os conceitos de “ideal do eu” e “supereu” são transmitidos na medida em que Lacan torna-se espectador do filme “Casablanca”. O conceito de real, por sua vez, emerge da posição de Lacan como espectador de Alien. …”
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