From Independence Day to Land of Plenty: Screening American Patriotism from German Émigré Perspectives before and after 9/11 by Frank Mehring

“…Independence Day and Land of Plenty are also two American feature films directed by German émigrés, the first being a science fiction blockbuster from 1996 by Roland Emmerich, the second an independent road movie from 2003 by Wim Wenders. …”
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Cinema and Identity: Criss-Cross Reflections by Irina S. Semenenko, Vladimir I. Pantin, Elena V. Morozova

“…The analysis is based on approaches inherent to identity studies and uses comparative methods; the empirical base consists of films selected through the purposive sampling method. The focus is on feature films, which provide extensive material for studying the trends of modern political development and its perception by contemporaries. …”
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Memory Politics on Screen: The Aesthetics of Historical Trauma in Izaokas (Isaac) (2019) by Gabrielė Norkūnaitė

“…This article analyses the Lithuanian feature film Izaokas (Isaac, 2018) as an expression of memory activism. …”
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Tierra Roja (2006) / La terre des hommes rouges (2008) by Carla Fernandes

“…Some of these are also found in Marco Bechis’s fiction feature film La terre des homes rouges (The land of the red men - 2008), which is sometimes referred to in this work.…”
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La mirada confusa de Barrio (1998). Estereotipos y violencia contra las mujeres en la España de finales de los noventa by Mercedes Álvarez San Román

“…In order to identify how the symbolic violence is exercised, I will focus on the Spanish successful movie from the 90s, Barrio (1998), directed by Fernando León de Aranoa. This feature film was produced and released during a turning point in the perception of gender violence, when the society assumed that it was a public problem and not an individual issue. …”
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Lejos de Chile, lejos de Francia: los exiliados chilenos en Diálogos de exiliados de Raúl Ruiz by Michèle Arrué

“…Dialogues of exiles is director Raul Ruiz's first feature film completed in France after fleeing from Chile to Europe following the coup d'état of 1973. …”
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Shin Evangelion : quand Anno Hideaki retourne (à) la Terre by Antonin Bechler, Kenjirō Muramatsu

“…Assuming that Evangelion reflects an evolution regarding the relationship with reality in contemporary Japan, this article focuses on its director’s background, the thematic and cinematic specificities of his works, with a focus on the final feature film of 2021 and its surprisingly in-depth depiction of a “rural community”. …”
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Le film de tournage shakespearien : fiction documentarisée ou documentaire fictionnalisé ? by Sarah Hatchuel

“…It transforms the shooting of the feature film into a suspense narrative in which the director becomes a double of the hero in the fiction. …”
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The Role of Lyrics in Estonian Literature: Three Exemplary Cases by Anneli Niinre

“…The article examines three cases in Estonian literature where melodised poetic texts have played a significant role in Estonian culture and are considered to be core texts: “Mu isamaa on minu arm” (My Fatherland is My Love) by Lydia Koidula, songs from the feature film Viimne reliikvia (The Last Relic), lyrics written by Paul-Eerik Rummo, and “Laul Põhjamaast” (“Song of the Northern Land”), lyrics by Enn Vetemaa. …”
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The Whaleness of the Whale: Interspecies Relationality in Moby-Dick and In The Heart of the Sea by Svetlana Seibel

“…Yet, Melville’s novel raises the question of the personhood of the whale time and time again, and this issue comes into even starker relief when considered as part of the narrative matrix formed by Melville’s Moby-Dick, Owen Chase’s narrative of the sinking of the whaleship Essex in 1820, and Ron Howard’s 2015 feature film In the Heart of the Sea. All these texts are concerned with questions of human-whale relationality and reflect changing debates on human-animal relations by grappling with the whaleness of the whale, each in its own, particular way. …”
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De la paix à la guerre, de la fiction au documentaire. Alexandre Dovjenko et Youlia Solntseva by Vanessa Voisin

“…For private as well as public reasons, the by then famous Soviet director refused the mission ascribed to feature film directors -- that is contributing to general mobilisation of the country from the rear areas, in the evacuated studios. …”
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Ron Peck’s Strip Jack Naked (UK, 1991): Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gay Man by Nicole Cloarec

“…Shot some thirteen years after Nighthawks, Strip Jack Naked could be taken for a mere making-of documentary relating the difficulties that Ron Peck encountered in making his first feature film in 1978. Being one of the first British films to openly deal with the gay community, Nighthawks, which itself applies a documentary veneer to its subject, proved to be highly controversial. …”
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Marketing auteurism: the vanishing industry model behind Pedro Almodóvar’s success in the US by Jennifer Green

“…The planned world premiere of the director’s first English-language feature film in the fall of 2024 also represents a new direction for the filmmaker worthy of its own future study. …”
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