Approaching a National Film History through Data. Network Analysis in German Film History by Malte Hagener, Theresa Blaschke

“…The approach was motivated by the perceived conundrum in the existing studies of German cinema that filmhistorical and political history usually do not match. The aim is to open up another perspective on the problem of periodization by looking at the data of film production, more specifically of collaboration. …”
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Simulating Organic Thin Film Transistors Using Multilayer Perceptron Regression Models to Enable Circuit Design by Laurie E. Calvet, Sami El‐Nakouzi, Zonglong Li, Yerin Kim, Amer Zaibi, Patryk Golec, Ie Mei Bhattacharyya, Yvan Bonnassieux, Lina Kadura, Benjamin Iñiguez

“…Three models are considered here: a physical compact model, an empirical look‐up table, and an empirical surrogate model based on a multilayer perceptron (MLP) regression. …”
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A Train to Hollywood: Porno-Chic in the Polish Cinema of the Late 1980s by Karol Jachymek

“…In my article, I look at some major examples of the porno-chic trend in Polish cinema of the late 1980s and draw on the archival records from the Film Pre-Screening Commission to demonstrate how the political and cultural authorities of the time attempted to co-opt the new “western” trend to improve their standing with an increasingly irate public and to deflate the rising discontent by a supply of an attractive cultural and erotic content.…”
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Ein Leben für den Fels: Den Körper seinen Gebrauch anpassen by Susann Winsel

“…This paper takes a closer look at the upcoming Mountain Film Festivals, focusing on the aesthetic and social meaning of an imagined mountain and climbing community. …”
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Dwelling in the Abyss: Society in Werner Herzog and Martin Heidegger by Haotian Wu

“…Heidegger’s philosophical thought enables a creative and insightful reading of overlooked yet significant aesthetic forms in Herzog’s films: the motif of tears in Kaspar Hauser and the jump cuts and close-ups in Abyss. …”
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Subjective Hesitation in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior: ‘you think of yourself as anyone, as everyone’ by Nicolas Pierre BOILEAU

“…Report from the Interior, Auster’s 2013 memoir opens with the earliest memories of young Paul up to the age of 12 before the author looks at tokens of his past in three subsequent sections: films, letters and diary entries are reviewed, followed by a final section composed of non-personal photographs. …”
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