Arrows of Desire: Dance and Power in Transnational Cinema by May Telmissany

“…This article focuses on the complexity of oriental belly dancing as it has become in recent years an expression of female joy and “will to power” celebrated by Arab and North African diaspora filmmakers. Associated with female emancipation rather than moral decline, the practice of oriental dancing is perceived as a symbol of subaltern expression, a site of female solidarity and a tool for sexual liberation. …”
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Des créateurs et des curateurs aux frontières des arts visuels et du cinéma documentaire. Maroc – Tunisie (2011-2016) by Marie Pierre-Bouthier

“…In this paper, we follow a few documentary filmmakers from Morocco and Tunisia who have crossed paths with contemporary art during their career. …”
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NEW SOURCES OF FINANCE FOR THE FILM PRODUCTION by P. Ogurchikov, N. Skobeev

“…The refund mechanism for foreign producers on the example of the Hungarian system of incentives for foreign filmmakers is analyzed. The experience of granting tax incentives for film production of the EU countries is described. …”
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Entre campagne publicitaire et films d’auteur : douze paysages urbains italiens au cinéma by Olivier Gaudin

“…12 Registi per 12 città (1989) is a commissioned promotional film comprising twelve portraits of cities, produced by twelve famous Italian filmmakers before the 14th World Cup (Italia’90). It is an exemplary body of works which can be used to study the relationship between the representation of the urban landscape and the advertising image. …”
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Migration and the Feminization of Power by Elizabeth Olayiwola

“…In each transnational Mount Zion video, the filmmaker struggles to square cultural and biblical constructions of gender roles. …”
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Die Laaste Woord by Manie van Rensburg

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THE FALL OF CINEMA ATTENDANCE IN THE ERA OF "STAGNATION". CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES by M. Kosinova

“…The author examines the causes of this negative tendency and the measures that took the leaders of the Soviet cinematography and the filmmakers to eliminate this problem. The article contains the questions of cinema sociology, movie rental, repertoire policy.…”
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Riding High in the Saddle: African American Subversion in the 1930s Western by Susan Savage Lee

“…The advent of sound in film provided a unique opportunity for minority filmmakers to contribute to the early cinema. African American filmmakers like Spencer Williams, for example, turned to the genre of the western because it was a familiar genre for both mainstream and minority audiences. …”
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Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, Icon on Screen by Toluwanimi Ibikunle

“… One of the main chords through which Yorùbá cinema connects with its core target audience – the Yorùbá people both at home and in the diasporas – is the penchant of Yorùbá filmmakers to present core traditional values, mores, philosophies and customs in their works. …”
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De l’usage postcolonial de l’archive. Quelques pistes de réflexion by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…The purpose of the project is to highlight the various ways, in which archives are used by contemporary artists – writers primarily, but also filmmakers and visual artists – in a postcolonial perspective.…”
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Donald Barthelme’s “Report” and Michal Rovner’s Decoy series, or the Ongoing Art of Telling It Slant by Sandrine Dechaume

“…This article examines how two contemporary artists, American writer Donald Barthelme and Israeli filmmaker and photographer Michal Rovner use overexposure in order to denounce forms of televisual “brain damage.” …”
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Video y escritura. La inscripción en la interface electrónica y digital by Jacobo Sucari

“…The invention of the electronic image of video, and later of digital compression, opened the doors to radical experimentation that changed the clichés of the film industry and the roles occupied by filmmakers and writers. This article sets references from the point of view of a media archaeology on the processes of audiovisual construction that have modified, since the electronic revolution, the relationship between text and image.…”
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Memory Politics on Screen: The Aesthetics of Historical Trauma in Izaokas (Isaac) (2019) by Gabrielė Norkūnaitė

“…The film actualised heated debates on a national level over the role of ordinary Lithuanians in the Holocaust and collaboration with Nazi Germany, in spite of the fact that the filmmakers did not intend to engage in historical debates. …”
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Para una historización de la relación entre cine y memoria. Las producciones sobre la dictadura de Pinochet (fines de los 70 e inicios de los 80) by Marcy Campos Pérez

“…We will use a corpus that considers interviews with filmmakers, analysis of exile films and productions made inside Chile, contained in publications of the same period. …”
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Archétypes du corps cinématographique du narcotrafiquant mexicain by Magali Kabous

“…Therefore, we try to draw various archetypes of the drug dealer’s body in films. How do filmmakers depict their character, their physical appearance and metamorphosis and their integration into a group? …”
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Alegorías, metáforas y símbolos en el cine sobre la Revolución mexicana by Alvaro Vázquez Mantecón

“…This work intends to analyze the way Mexican cinema has built allegoric images of the Mexican Revolution through sequences or key scenes which, far from being a collection of official images, show the complexity of the Mexican filmmakers’ vision of the Revolution. They show the resistance or the dialogue with the concept of State and transform history into something which is alive and helps to catch a glimpse of contemporary worries. …”
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Los conflictos del documental español: el caso de Basilio Martín Patino by Manuel de la Fuente

“…Spanish filmmaker Basilio Martín Patino’s documentaries show a number of textual and political issues and conflicts. …”
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Sex and the City: A Situationist Reading of Jens Jorgen Thorsen’s Film Adaptation of Henry Miller’s Quiet Days in Clichy by Jennifer Cowe

“…Thorsen was unarguably one of Denmark’s most inventive and revolutionary filmmakers and Quiet Days in Clichy can be viewed in relation to his engagement with the concepts of the SI.…”
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Une guerre en marge by Victor Barbat

“…In September 1938, filmmaker Roman Karmen went to China to cover the second Sino-Japanese War. …”
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Aller, revenir, tisser un abri : Route One/USA, de Robert Kramer (1989) by Gilles Chamerois

“…Mixing as usual documentary and fiction, the American filmmaker examines the country at the eve of the 1988 general elections. …”
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