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Rhizomatic Time and Temporal Poetics in American Beauty [PDF]
This essay deals with the temporality of film through an examination of narrative, structure and image in Sam Mendes’ film American Beauty (2000), referring to both Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson‘s work on time.
Furby, Jacqueline
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Catherine Gough-Brady’s Filming offers an insightful deconstruction of camera operation, exposing the complex mental and social states inhabited by the documentary cameraperson.
Catherine Gough-Brady
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The Documentary Art of Filmmaker Michael Rubbo, by D. B. Jones
The immediate reception of Michael Rubbo’s early documentaries was eerily similar. He was attacked both for their form and content. The producers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where all the Canadian National Film Board’s (NFB) films ...
Gaurav Pai
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The essayistic device in film often brings together two temporalities of film creation: the present of the filmed image and the present of the editing process. Through the interaction of both moments, provoked by the critical revision of the raw material
Carolina Sourdis, Gonzalo de Lucas
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Film as Sound Art: Embracing Love through Extra-diegetic Sound in Nadine Labaki’s Caramel
Teaching film often involves un-learning previously taught histories of cinema to find instead ‘herstories’ (Dovey, 2018) and theirstories of cinema. This video essay constitutes an illustrative example of this practice, showing how Lebanese woman-led ...
Estrella Sendra
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Imperfect justice : Fritz Lang's Fury (1936) and cinema's use of the trial form [PDF]
This essay examines Fritz Lang's portrayal and use of justice in his first Hollywood film, Fury (1936) a film in which the main character, Joe Wilson (played by Spencer Tracy) is mistakenly arrested for a crime he did not commit.
Bruzzi, Stella
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This 9 minute and 28 second video essay, prepared for the conference ‘Teaching Women’s Filmmaking’ in 2021 takes a literal approach to the conference theme.
Katie Bird
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This essay is aimed at providing a first overview and analysis of Lorenzo Pellizzari’s network and personalrelationships, unravelling several elements within Italian film criticism that have remained untapped thus far.Amongst the hundreds of private ...
Marco Zilioli
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The essay reviews the literature, mostly historical, on the relationship between science and film-making, with a focus on the science documentary. It then discusses the circumstances of the emergence of the wildlife making-of documentary genre.
Beattie K +32 more
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In Praise of Slacking: Richard Linklater’s Slacker and Kevin Smith’s Clerks as Hallmarks of 1990s American Independent Cinema Counterculture [PDF]
Some people live to work, others work to live, while still others prefer to live lives of leisure. Since the Puritans, American culture and literature have been dominated by individuals who have valued hard work.
Małecka, Katarzyna
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