Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Almost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combination of a western-style narrative with a black cowboy hero and a historical drama. …”
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Samuel Beckett's Breath on Screen: Damien Hirst’s Adaptation by Filiz Kutlu

“…As each of them was assigned to a different director, Beckett on Film offers a chance to explore how individual viewpoints shape the adaptations. …”
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Smoke (Paul Auster et Wayne Wang, 1995) : une œuvre à la croisée des arts by Delphine Letort

“…The adaptation of the short story entitled “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story” (1990) gathered the writer Paul Auster and the director Wayne Wang around a film project that allowed them to share their artistic practices in a collaborative work. …”
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« There are kisses for all » : Le defilé des jeunes hommes by Luc Bouvard

“…However, the film director chose to claim his film adaptation as the most faithful rendition on screen of the famous gothic novel. …”
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Ônibus 174: um olhar sobre a violência urbana e a exclusão social by Joana Maria Eleutério

“…The film is a documentary, which was produced by Jose Padilha (also director) and Marcos Prado, photography by Cesar Morales and Marcelo Guru and editing by Felipe Lacerda. …”
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Shin Evangelion : quand Anno Hideaki retourne (à) la Terre by Antonin Bechler, Kenjirō Muramatsu

“…Assuming that Evangelion reflects an evolution regarding the relationship with reality in contemporary Japan, this article focuses on its director’s background, the thematic and cinematic specificities of his works, with a focus on the final feature film of 2021 and its surprisingly in-depth depiction of a “rural community”. …”
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Интерсемиотические отношения в переводе культурного иного (на примере фильма „Ностальгия” Андрея Тарковского)... by Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst

“…This paper attempts to provide an analysis of the mechanisms used by the director to make a projection of this emotional state and to portray it in the film. …”
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Lejos de Chile, lejos de Francia: los exiliados chilenos en Diálogos de exiliados de Raúl Ruiz by Michèle Arrué

“…Dialogues of exiles is director Raul Ruiz's first feature film completed in France after fleeing from Chile to Europe following the coup d'état of 1973. …”
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Éloge de l’inauthenticité: le dix-huitième siècle à l’écran, autour de 'Barry Lyndon' de Stanley Kubrick by Alexis Tadié

“…The essay begins with Carbonneaux’s film, and I show that the director aims not to serve Voltaire’s text but rather to deploy it in a political satire of the postwar contemporary world. …”
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Henri La Barthe, l’inventeur de Détective by Dominique Kalifa

“…This article highlights the unsung fate of “Detective Ashelbé” (HLB), who acquired an ephemeral notoriety when the film director Julien Duvivier adapted his novel Pépé le Moko. …”
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Quand le crime donne un visage au journal à sensation by Will Straw

“…This article highlights the unsung fate of “Detective Ashelbé” (HLB), who acquired an ephemeral notoriety when the film director Julien Duvivier adapted his novel Pépé le Moko. …”
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Popular Culture as Pedagogy : Teaching “Il Canto di Ulisse” from Dante to Jovanotti in the American College Classroom by Marzia Caporale

“…In particular, the study addresses the role of subtext that the “Canto di Ulisse” plays to rap-pop artist Jovanotti’s song “Bruto” (Album : Buon Sangue, 2005) and to director Emanuele Crialese’s film Terraferma (2011). …”
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La seringue et la gâchette by Thomas Lequeu

“…This detailed study of the mechanisms of violence that underlie the film questions its ambiguity, while also ascribing it as an element of the gender-based morality that runs through the director’s filmography.…”
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The Expression of the North/South Conflict in Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur, 1956): Western Conventions and Southern Motifs, Subversion and Satire by Gilles Menegaldo

“…Great Day in the Morning is among the few Westerns to deal with the Civil War as it was actually taking place. Tourneur’s film offers an example of generic hybridity, associating the codes of the Western and numerous references to Southern culture. …”
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Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) : la mémoire de l’esclavage dans la conscience diasporique by Delphine Letort

“…Sankofa is the eighth film made by Ethiopian director Haile Gerima, who has been living in exile in the United States since 1967. …”
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Kat, ofiara i świadek w "Śmierci i dziewczynie" Romana Polańskiego by Aleksandra Piętka

“…Also, colors, props, and landscape motifs associated with each character are analyzed to explain their symbolic and dramatic function in the film.…”
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Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991), le récit d’esclave revisité by Delphine Letort

“…Whilst allowing women to address their most intimate dilemmas (rape, skin colour, pregnancy, sexuality, gender roles), the director tries to undermine Hollywood stereotypes of black women. …”
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Enter Sir Alfred, or Hitchcock’s Three Du Mauriers by Jean-Loup Bourget

“…It concludes that the complex network between Hitchcock and three generations of Du Mauriers is evidence of the Hollywood director’s abiding English roots and inspiration.…”
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La place des sources documentaires dans l’écriture de l’histoire à l’ère du numérique : le cas de l’Encyclopédie raisonnée des techniques du cinéma by Rémy Besson

“…The feedback concerns the Encyclopedia of Film Techniques and Technologies (of which the author of these lines is the editorial director) conceived within the research partnership TECHNÈS (2015-2022). …”
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Le travail de Rithy Panh : un appareil funéraire by Martine Lefeuvre-Déotte

“…The Cambodian director and writer, Rithy Panh, born in 1962 in Phnom Penh, is a survivor of the genocide perpetraded by the Pol Pot regime (1975-1979). …”
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