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Film and Philosophy
Film as a medium of seduction also plays a role in earlier engagements with film and philosophy, but the phenomenon is rarely explicitly named. The...
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Setting the Film Studio Stage
This chapter introduces the book’s main themes and approaches, setting out the key questions it engages with regarding Pinewood’s history and...
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Screenwriting, Short Film, and Pedagogy
Far from being a step** stone to feature film production or a form of film apprenticeship, the Irish short film has become an established and...
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Film und Philosophie
Film als Medium der Verführung spielt auch in früheren Beschäftigungen mit Film und Philosophie eine Rolle, doch selten wir das Phänomen explizit...
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Greening Film Festivals
In this chapter we seize the momentum of the pandemic crisis and its disruption of the film festival world to consider festivals’ stake in the...
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Adaptation, Ownership and the Emergence of Narrative Film
This chapter considers how literary writers responded to the arrival of film and its development as a mass narrative form in the late 1910s. It finds...
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Das Gesicht im Film: subtile Botschaften Von der Kulturgeschichte bis zur Instrumentalisierung in Industriefilmen des "Dritten Reichs"
Das menschliche Gesicht gilt einerseits als subtiler, „schwacher Code“, das sich im Alltag den Deutungen der menschlichen Wahrnehmung immer wieder...
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Linguistics and Film and Theatre Practices
In this chapter, the concept of predication—borrowed from linguistics—is applied to film and theatre languages. The premise is that the rules that...
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The British Sitcom Spinoff Film
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of theatrically-released spinoff films derived from British radio and...
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Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds
This chapter is in part a manifesto and in part an engagement with the thinking and practice already re-sha** film festivals in this era of...
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Literary Writers and Early Sound Film: Experimental Writing
This chapter studies the film industry’s re-evaluations of literary writers with the introduction of synchronised sound, together with the effect of...
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Wittgensteinian Film-as-Philosophy Exemplified: Exploring the Exploration of Point-of-view in Cuaron’s Space-Exploration Film Gravity
I argue that the form of the shooting of Alphonso Cuaron’s film Gravity manifests the idea present in the opening of Arendt’s The human condition....
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Conclusion: Anatomy of a Film Studio
This chapter brings together the arguments advanced in the book concerning how a materialist, ‘tectonic’ focuses on a major, surviving film studio...
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From Sculpture to Film and Photography
Social Consideration, Communication, Observation: From Sculpture to Film and Photography outlines Lange’s adoption of lens-based media coming out of...
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From Palestine Film Unit to Palestinian Cinema Institution
This chapter traces the evolution of the Palestine Film Unit into the Palestinian Cinema Institution (PCI), including thwarted attempts to produce a...
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Music and Film—Accompaniment or Relation. The Vocal and the Instrumental in “Film Music”
The article deals with a fundamental question of music in films: has it to accompany the edited and finished film with a certain reinforcement of a...
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Entrepreneurship in Film and Screen
The screen industries, which for our purposes include film and television, have been operating globally for some time. The film sector of the screen...
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Status Quo and the Development of Short-form, Medium-form, and Long-form Video Platforms
The development of short-form video has established a new order for global video relationships, which has not only triggered a new round of...
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Mary Magdalene and Murdochian Film Phenomenology
For Iris Murdoch, the cinema shows ‘human character on display at the point where spirit and matter are most intensely fused’—that is, in the human...
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The Children’s Film and Its Definition
If, in this thesis, children are to be questioned about children’s films and a selection of such films is to be examined in terms of their humour...