Introduction au dossier « Inscriptions urbaines américaines : rapports d’autorités » by Jean-Baptiste Barra, Timothée Engasser, Modesta Suárez

“…However the studies united here, both multidisciplinary and transmediatic, allow us to point out fractures in perpetual evolution and oscillation between violence and recognition ; reflections that erase national o local frontiers ; orientations and answers thathelp us to model part of the urban popular culture (including music and cinema) on the entire American continent.…”
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« Never Meet Your Heroes ». Généalogie cinématographique et matrice science-fictionnelle dans The Boys by Thomas Carrier-Lafleur, Baptiste Creps

“…This article proposes to study The Boys (Prime Video, 2019-in production) from a genealogical approach that will shed light on the series' cinematic legacy, with a particular emphasis on its science fictional matrix. …”
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Une esthétique postmoderne : l’esprit kitsch dans The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) by Pierre Beylot

“…This article recalls some of the works to which the notion of kitsch gave rise in the fields of art history and cultural industries; it then addresses the questions raised by kitsch in cinema through the example of The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014). …”
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Comments on media trends in South Africa based on AMPS 1976-1980 by Thomas Oosthuizen

“…This trend is observed in daily newspaper reading (although there was a slight decrease for blacks in the last year), radio listening, television viewing and cinema attendance, even though it is slight in instances. …”
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Biopolitics of the Zombie Corpses: Collectivity, Contagion, and Alterity by Onur Kartal

“…In this article, I claim that the zombie figures in cinema bear a positive potential for the social life of humanity, and I will define this potential as a new opportunity for meeting the absolute alterity. …”
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La fin de l’art selon Friedrich Kittler by Audrey Rieber

“…Le présent article prend pour point de départ la thèse de Friedrich Kittler selon laquelle l’avènement des médias optiques, de la photographie à la télévision en passant par le cinéma, aurait entraîné la fin des beaux-arts. Une fois élucidée la signification de cette version média-technique de la thèse hégélienne de la fin de l’art, nous nous demanderons ce qu’il reste de l’esthétique dans la condition numérique. …”
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THE TURKISH-GERMAN AFFAIR IN FILMS: A DREAMWORLD OR A NETHERWORLD? by Ayça Tunç Cox

“…Therefore, focusing on these cinematic texts should reveal alternative modes of reading the enduring Turkish-German affair. …”
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Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…More recently, further investigation of the Shakespearean character as it resurfaced in literature, film and cinema has brought to light the inherent contradictions relating to her very nature: the more Ophelia is represented and made visible in literature and the arts, the more she seems to be vanishing. …”
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PHILOLOGY AS A SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECT by Pavel P. Shkarenkov

“…The institutionalization of comparative studies as a complex specialization - not only for philologists but also for historians, translators, theatre and cinema critics and experts - has already proven its heuristic value and educational effectiveness over the years.…”
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Planet of The Men, scénario de Pierre Boulle by Xavier Mauméjean

“…Celui-ci hésite, n’ayant jamais jusqu’alors écrit pour le cinéma. Boulle finit par accepter. Le travail remis, un scénario dont la traduction compte 108 pages, s’intitule Planet of The Men. …”
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Split Screen Nation: Vernacular Screen Forms of the American Paradox by Susan Courtney

“…This essay introduces an eclectic history of popular U.S. film, including but well beyond Hollywood cinema, that mediated conflicted sentiments about the U.S. in the decades after the Second World War through an implicit, and sometimes explicit, opposition between the screen South and the screen West. …”
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Education and memory. Pedagogy of remembrance and communication design by Daniela Anna Calabi, Beatrice Borghi, Clorinda Sissi Galasso

“…Luxemburg in Milan interpreted the MIUR call for applications ‘Cinema per la scuola – I progetti delle e per le scuole’, proposing memory topics and creating a documentary about the Institute Marchiondi ‘for problematic children’. …”
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Modos subordinados de acceso a los clásicos en Los príncipes valientes de Javier Pérez Andújar by Jessica Cáliz Montes

“…More specifically, it thoroughly analyses the coexistence of oral popular tradition and new popular culture during the late periods of Franco regime, disseminated by media and closely corresponding to the (Amorós) « subculture » –television, comics, cinema, music, etc.– where there is also place for the dissemination of high culture. …”
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„Pokonani mężczyźni”. O męskości w filmach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej by Dagmara Rode

“… Dagmara Rode przedstawia książkę Ewy Mazierskiej Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema: Black Peters and Men of Marble (2008). W swojej publikacji Mazierska proponuje konsekwentną lekturę wybranych aspektów filmów polskich, czeskich i słowackich, trafnie wskazując przemiany, jakim pod wpływem transformacji politycznych, ekonomicznych i społecznych podlegały reprezentacje męskości. …”
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Comment Hollywood figure l’intériorité dans les films « hollywoodiens » de David Lynch, Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Dr. (2001) et Inland Empire (2006) by David ROCHE

“…Rather, Hollywood is a character, a presence, revealed as both horizontal and vertical, physical and abstract, evoking the city, the studio system, cinema and dreams, so that the satire, the visual motifs and clichés and the topography of Hollywood, and the references to Hollywood films, constitute a complex fabric of subjectivity and interiority.…”
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Réécriture des pièces de Shakespeare : l’enjeu de la modernité ? by Estelle Rivier

“…Not surprisingly, Shakespeare’s plays have constantly been adapted on stage and in the cinema to comment upon contemporary facts and to voice either political or social concerns. …”
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Les coulisses du sublime by Emmanuel Grimaud

“…Cinema is engaged from its origins in a frantic race to make physically impossible actions visually plausible by camouflaging their conditions of application. …”
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Charles et ses images by Anne-Marie Baron

“…The first directors made a victim of him, but gradually, the cinema began to emphasize his deleterious dimension and attributed to him a large part of the responsibility for Emma’s grief. …”
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Black Sea Tourism and the Orient: Bulgarian Visual Images (1920s–1980s) by Georgeta Nazarska

“…Some examples from Bulgarian feature cinema are discussed as well. Original title in Bulgarian: Черноморски туризъм и Ориент: български визуални образи (20-те – 80-те години на ХХ в.).…”
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L’art transgenre, vers d’autres expériences corporelles du temps by Luc Schicharin

“…According to our hypothesis, this visual dialectic derives from an evolutionary temporal norm appeared in the nineteenth century (with Darwin and the invention of cinema). Next, Wynne Neilly’s "Female-to-‘Male’" installation exposes the artist’s transgender "second puberty" experience, turning away from a hetero-cisnormative chronobiology focused on sexual maturity and reproduction. …”
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