La mise en scène de la Lorraine au cinéma by Delphine Le Nozach, Violaine Appel

“…The authors look at portrayals of Lorraine by local filmmakers. By studying their films and decoding their discourse, the authors reveal how Lorraine’s specific characteristics as a region are presented in film and identify a typology of three markers of regionality in film: society and culture, history, and memory.…”
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Un cinéma palestinien « en mal d’archive » by Laure Fourest

“…Through the analysis of three Palestinian films created in the 2000-2010 period, this article considers filmmakers’ insertion of archival images in their montages: what strategies do they employ and for what purpose? …”
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Esthétique du kitsch et ruralité dans le cinéma irlandais by Isabelle Le Corff

“…From the end of the 1970s there is an ironic slip of this representation. Indigenous filmmakers foster the iconography of the cottage with a new sense of irony, in the spirit of Camp, to castigate conservative national values. …”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Haile Gerima, an independent Ethiopian filmmaker who belonged to the LA Rebellion film movement, directed films which dealt with various aspects of the African American and black diasporic experience. …”
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Un cinéma affranchi du contrôle de l’État by Nicolas Appelt

“…Beyond the simple testimony and independently of their career path, Syrian director filmmakers give their perspective in the comprehension of the changing situation in the country, engaged, at the same time, in a reflection on cinema. …”
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Galicia ¿escuela de subalternidad? by Marta Álvarez, Laureano Montero

“…María Ruido has become one of the most recognized video artists and filmmakers (in a broad sense of the word) of the contemporary Spanish scene. …”
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Raúl Ruiz en Italie : vers un art déterritorialisé by Boris Monneau

“…Raúl Ruiz is essentially known as a filmmaker. Nevertheless, he is also the author of a vast although mostly unpublished body of literature. …”
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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…The director makes use of generic hybridity to show the persistence of a “racial Frontier” on screen. The filmmaker modified the known accounts of the 1923 Rosewood massacre to include a Western-style resolution to historical conflicts.…”
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Sur quelques films “sylphiques” by Charlie Hewison

“…Based on the study of two contemporary photochemical experimental films - Zillertal by Jürgen Reble (1991/1997), sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars by Tomonari Nishikawa (2014) - and a documentary from the 1980s - Chernobyl, A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks by Ukrainian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko (1986) -, which we define as “sylphic”, in reference to the writings of the alchemist Paracelsus, for their material capacity to make visible in striking ways the “chaos” or “vital space” of the atmospheres with which they come into contact, we propose to explore the ways in which the notion of atmosphere is becoming central to new theoretical approaches to media.…”
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Cartographie des pornographies critiques by Myriam Le Blanc Élie, Julie Lavigne, Sabrina Maiorano

“…Since the 1980s, in a corollary movement to the emergence of hardcore mainstream pornography, several women filmmakers (cisgender and transgender) produced critical pornography that is rooted in pro-sex feminism. …”
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Powidoki twórczości Federica Felliniego w "Mieście Snu" Krystiana Lupy by Katarzyna Gołos-Dąbrowska

“…He “borrows” characters from the filmmaker’s motion pictures and the Italian’s biography. …”
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Vidas desperdiçadas? Uma análise de Estamira, de Marcos Prado, e No quarto de Vanda, de Pedro Costa by Mônica Horta Azeredo

“…However, when hoisted by the hands of filmmakers, they are transformed into characters of their own and make room for something that has always been historically denied to them: the speech. …”
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Sud de Chantal Akerman ou une histoire de territoire et de terre : le Sud comme espace de mémoire by Marie Liénard

“…The article examines Chantal Akerman's work Sud (South) filmed in 1999. The Belgian filmmaker had always been fascinated by the Southern part of the United States. …”
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Les documentaires politiques de Robert Greenwald : définir des nouvelles pratiques militantes à l’ère d’Internet by Delphine Letort

“…Robert Greenwald’s emergence as a documentary filmmaker is linked to the political context of George W. …”
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Protocole d’errance d’une forme by Francesca Cozzolino, Coralie Maurin, Kristina Solomoukha

“…Designed by an anthropologist, an artist, and a filmmaker, this audio-visual narrative is built like a virtual trip through different groups of images in which different variants of the caracol are shown—a motif that, ranging from the representation of the snail shell to the spiral, embodies both the Maya past and the Zapatista ideals of the present. …”
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Dickens, David Lean, and After: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Oliver Twist by Chris Louttit

“…In interestingly varied ways, as this essay will show, subsequent filmmakers must offer a response to the David Lean version as well as providing a reinterpretation of the novel itself.…”
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Perdus dans l’espace : survivre à la mondialisation dans Gravity et Seul sur Mars by Siobhan Carroll

“…Examining the spatial politics of Gravity and The Martian allows us to see not only the filmmakers’ attempts to negotiate the anti-globalization backlash of the 2010s, but also the way in which ostensibly neutral natural spaces convey political and cultural meaning.…”
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Judas Iscariot: The Archetypal Betrayer and DeMille’s Cine-Biblical Salvation within The King of Kings (1927) by Anton Karl Kozlovic

“…It was concluded that DeMille was a defter biblical filmmaker than has been hitherto appreciated. Further research into DeMille studies, Hollywood epics, and the emerging interdisciplinary field of religion-and-film is recommended, warranted, and already long overdue.…”
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Tunde Kelani: The Man Exceeds the Frame by Toyin Falola

“… The extraordinary announcement, coming from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, that ace filmmaker Kelani will now be based there as a Fellow is heartwarming. …”
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Quand le théâtre s’inspire du cinéma : Jean Cocteau, Sergueï Eisenstein et Tennessee Williams by Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch

“…His autobiographical essays are peppered with references to famous filmmakers who helped him shape his language for the stage. …”
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