*Queer Tropical Frames* explores the convergence of queer theory, decolonial thinking, and film studies in Latin America. Situated within this relatively unexplored intersection, this thesis draws critical attention to the place of queerness in the twenty-first-century upsurge of Latin American LGBTIQ-themed cinema. In my analysis, I challenge the ...
The rapid development of generative AI technology challenges traditional ideas of authorship. This thesis investigates the concept of authorship in AI cinema, an emerging approach to filmmaking where advanced AI technology is used in the film production process. The study is focused on the AI film The Frost (Josh Rubin, 2023). It is a short film th...
This dissertation project explores the idea of matrilineal genealogies and analyzes how 20th and 21st century Spanish films and texts expand the notion of motherhood to encompass unexpected figures and formulate unique kinship formations. Contemporary Spanish fiction serves as a particularly rich area of analysis for these research questions since ...
En 2015, le réalisateur franco-congolais Alain Kassanda prend sa caméra pour filmer ses grands-parents, Colette Mujinga et Justin Kassanda. Guidés par les questions de leur petit-fils, Colette et Justin parcourent leurs histoires de vie et de couple depuis leur appartement parisien. Au fil du récit, leurs souvenirs font défiler l’histoire du Congo,...
Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 1930s and 1940s did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film ...
This is the first book to explore the hold of TV series on our lives from a philosophical and ethical perspective. Sandra Laugier argues that this vital and ubiquitous expression of popular culture throughout the world is transformative in its effects on the activity of philosophy in everyday life. Drawing on Stanley Cavell’s work on film and ordin...
This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entirety—actors and production included—brings its own intelligence to its realization. In turn, this intelligence educates us as viewers, leading us to recognize and appreciate our individu...
Der Populismus der 1930er Jahre war das Gegenteil des libertären Autoritarismus von heute. Über den Western von damals.
Aquest article mira a la costa com un lloc crucial per a considerar qüestions ambientals a través de mitjans visuals. Sosté que el punt de tro-bada de l’aigua i la terra és un lloc evocador per a la creació de significat al cinema documental. En veure documentals moderns que representen la costa, reconeixem la importància de l’estil i l’estètica a ...
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