DeMille and Danger: Seven Heuristic Taxonomic Categories of His Hollywood (Mis)Adventures by Anton Karl Kozlovic

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From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

“…These films mark a generation of travel diarists in search of the dream and anti-travel. …”
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Camping it out in the Never Never: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinity in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) by Anne Le Guellec-Minel

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OPERA AND FILM – AN UNLIKELY MARRIAGE by Julianna KÖPECZI

“…By revealing the correspondence between these audiovisual mediums and examining the common language used by them we intent to reveal numerous facets of this symbiotic relationship, all put in the service of lending meaning to the film, thus making the viewer’s escapist adventure truly unique. …”
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King Solomon’s Mines on film: modernity in reverse? by Stephen COAN

“…There have been four feature films made under the title King Solomon’s Mines, each of them crediting H. …”
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The Incredible Shrinking Man in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior: The Film and the Myths by Marie GOURRUT

“…Carey’s initiatory and transformative adventure, which resembles a fairy tale, explains, at least partly, Auster’s fascination for this genre which has always inspired him, and Auster’s analysis of the film in Report from the Interior unveils his vision on initiation, on life and fiction, along with his obsession with enclosed spaces.…”
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The Wandering Character in the Coen Brothers’ Films: When the Southern Gothic Meets the Western by Julie Assouly

“…The wandering character is a regular feature in the Coen Brothers’ films. Roaming the American South and West, two regions those directors have explored on various occasions, Coenian wanderers are mysterious, ominous characters, often grotesque, most of them undoubtedly having Gothic roots. …”
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Technicolor Middle Ages: (Ex)changes and Transformations from Medieval to Present Day Perception of Colour by Agnès Blandeau

“…S’ils ont souvent été considérés comme le reflet kitsch d’un moyen-âge clinquant, les films en Technicolor brillent par leur déploiement de tonalités flamboyantes. …”
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Le biopic du sportif américain by Rémi Fontanel

“…This paper focuses on the specificities of biographical films dedicated to American sportsmen. Referring to more than fifty American films, it analyses the formal narrative and aesthetic elements that underlie the construction of sports heroes and celebrities, paying attention to the stories behind their public achievements. …”
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Crimson Tide: Hans Zimmer, Subliminal Harmony, and Submerged Voices by Donald Greig

“… Crimson Tide (Tony Scott, 1995) is a signal example of Hollywood action-adventure movies of the past forty years and in particular of the “high-concept” movie. …”
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From the Small Screen to the Big Screen: The Super8's Distribution of Sandokan TV series by Nicole Braida

“…The film is Sandokan, an Italian miniseries from 1976 directed by Sergio Sollima and starring the Indian actor Kabir Bedi as the exotic protagonist of Salgari’s famous adventure. …”
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Travelling through a powder keg: War and Tourist Imaginary in Sarajevo by Patrick Naef

“…Both the city itself, as well as the whole Balkan region, have often been compared to a powder keg, notably in the media coverage of the conflict which set fire to the Balkans during the 1990s. In addition, certain films tend to create a romantic and orientalist image of this region, largely equating it with one of fire and blood. …”
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