Cinématographie roumaine : visibilité et agentivité des langues minoritaires dans le film R.M.N. de Cristian Mungiu by Raluca Calin

“…The author explores how this film, set in a multiethnic village in Transylvania, uses linguistic diversity to reveal racial, cultural, and social tensions. …”
Get full text

Development of conceptual provisions for organising the filming process of creation of an audiovisual product with animals by M. I. Kosinova, Yu. V. Vorontsova, A. R. Solomakhina

“…In addition, it becomes possible to find their most rational combination in the set which will help solve complex tasks related to the use of ­animals on a film set. The conceptual scheme also includes three components: preparation for management of the filming process with animals, formation of a mechanism of organisation of this filming process and its implementation. …”
Get full text

A van der Waals porous crystal featuring conformational flexibility and permanent porosity for ultrafast water release by Kentaro Maejima, Heishun Zen, Hiroyasu Sato, Eiji Nishibori, Tomoya Enjou, Youhei Takeda, Satoshi Minakata, Eri Hisamura, Ken Albrecht, Yuka Ikemoto, Irene Badía-Domínguez, Juan Sánchez-Rincón, M. Carmen Ruiz Delgado, Yohei Yamamoto, Hiroshi Yamagishi

“…We demonstrated that the quick release of water induced by photothermal heating induced a significant upward bending of a film set above the crystalline powder compared to conventional porous materials. …”
Get full text

Images défuntes (Z32, Avi Mograbi, 2008) by Emmanuelle André

“…Towards the problem raised by Mograbi – how to face war crimes? – the film sets up a dialectic between the seen and the unseen where the soldier’s burning memory confronts art history’s visual memory, which technological innovation brings onto the opacified surface of the face.…”
Get full text

The middlebrow Spanish Civil War film: a site of mediation between culture and history. by Laura J. Lee Kemp

“…Films set during or immediately after the Spanish Civil War have a long tradition in Spain, one which spans the entire spectrum of filmic genres, from propaganda to musicals to art-house. …”
Get full text

From Cattle to Beef Onscreen: Animal Rendering as Extraction in Industrial Livestock Films by Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

“…Through close analysis of how factory farming films set out to transform living, breathing animals into both lively images of American agriculture and dead bodies on a massive scale, I demonstrate how, even in this overdetermined context, the material specificity of documentary film contains indexical links to the original animals and thus allows the films to contain meanings beyond those intended by their industrial creators.…”
Get full text

The Expression of the North/South Conflict in Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur, 1956): Western Conventions and Southern Motifs, Subversion and Satire by Gilles Menegaldo

“…At first in a position of power, he gradually loses control over the situation when the war breaks out, but manages to save the gold for the Southern Cause that he eventually embraces. As in many films set in the South, women play a prominent part and they do show great energy, resilience and resistance to male authority. …”
Get full text

Qui fabrique et qui regarde ? by Isabelle Singer et Philippe Morice

“…To achieve this we have relied on the various aspects that are taken into account on film sets: according to Jean-Cesar Chiabaut, a cameraman who worked with Robert Besson in particular:”our attitude is “we put the camera there” (Bardet, 2008, 41); for Jacques Loiseleux, cameraman for Maurice Pialat among others, the question is: “What do we put inside and what do we leave outside?” …”
Get full text

The effect of water consumption on the aqueous layer of the tear film by Urvashni Nirghin, Sikelela E. Dlamini, Nontobeko Mkhize, Tabitha Munsami, Nosipho Nzama, Renaishia Pillay

“…Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effect of water consumption on the aqueous layer of the tear film. Setting: University of KwaZulu-Natal Eye Clinic. …”
Get full text