From 5-6 September 2019, the University of Genoa hosts an international conference on ‘The Literary Image and the Screen’, functioning as the opening event of a series co-organised by the University of Genoa and the University of Oxford. This conference aims to explore the connections and relationships between literature and the screen, from the pre-cinematic […]
by Francesco Pitassio As part of the series of conversations NECSUS has published with prominent scholars (see those with David Bordwell, Ian Christie, Richard Dyer, Anton Kaes, Laura Mulvey, and Vivian Sobchack), we spoke with Pierre Sorlin on his groundbreaking work in film and media studies. Educated as a historian, and working on interdisciplinary subjects […]
Cultural theorist Raymond Williams, in his now canonical text Ideas around Nature, makes the following remark: ‘A considerable part of what we call the natural landscape … is the product of human design and human labour, and in admiring it as natural it matters very much whether we suppress the fact of labour or acknowledge […]
Rana Sadik is one of the few non-native art collectors who creates and funds private initiatives like art-showcases and art-participatory scholarships towards education, conferences, workshops, and exhibitions in Kuwait. She provides participants with a comprehensive cultural and learning experience. Through art, she addresses territorial contraventions based on politics. The works in her intervention allude to […]
by Barbara Le Maître, translated from the French by Claire Labarbe[1] In the last twenty years, the question of the relationship between cinema and the museum has been raised in multiple theoretical and practical contexts, giving rise to a number of discussions about the exhibition of moving images, the use of the medium of film […]
by Paula Albuquerque Artistic research as modus operandi Methodologically, this artistic research project manifests in two realms: theory-based research and art practice. It involves a theoretical research to study the social and political relevance of documentary evidence produced by CCTV and military drones. This is developed in parallel with a hands-on experimental approach where I […]
by David Evan Richard Introduction This article suggests that the HBO recent limited television series Sharp Objects (created by Marti Noxon, 2018) invites spectators to temporarily inhabit the world of the depressed. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects is directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, whose previous Big Little Lies (HBO, 2017-) similarly examined […]
In the recent decades, academic research on early cinema has grown remarkably. At the intersection of early cinema studies and feminist history, significant new research has revealed the hitherto overlooked presence of women, and the rich diversity of positions they held, in the first decades of film production. Feminist film historiography has an ever-expanding scope. […]
by Jason Mittell As Black Lives Matter activists pushed the issue of police violence against African-American citizens onto the broad public agenda in the summer of 2014, my mind turned to The Wire. I had watched the landmark HBO series five times, written a fair amount about it, and taught courses about the series, which […]
by Angelo Restivo To begin with, I would want to stress that in this video – which juxtaposes images from the television series Breaking Bad with scenes from the archive of surrealist filmmaking – I am decidedly not claiming that these resonances and rhymes were intentional citations by the production team of the television series. […]
by Catherine Grant and Jaap Kooijman In recent years, videographic criticism in the form of remix-based audiovisual essays has gained momentum in Media and Screen Studies, with courses and workshops at universities, presentations at international conferences, and publication opportunities in academic journals such as [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, The Cine-Files, […]
by David W R Brown Over the past 30 years, film theorists have increasingly taken seriously the role that emotions play in our engagement with narrative art. Much of this discussion has focused on, to borrow Noël Carroll’s term, ‘garden-variety’ emotions, that is, the sorts of emotional responses that are familiar to viewers from ordinary […]
by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez This video is the first in a series of video essays on the female narcotrafficker, a character whose popularity has surged in the past two decades across film, television, and other audiovisual media. My series takes the popular figure as an agent to instigate ruminations on social themes recurring across its various […]
by Carl Plantinga One enduring concern of film theory has been the question of what film structures and styles encourage critical, reflective, and active spectatorship. Neo-Brechtian theory has been influential in this regard, as many of Brecht’s theories regarding the epic theatre were incorporated into film theory in the 1970s, just as the field was […]
Both Screening European Heritage: Creating and Consuming History on Film, edited by Paul Cooke & Rob Stone (London: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies, 2016), and Docudrama on European Television: A Selective Survey, edited by Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and Derek Paget (London: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies, 2016) offer well-edited collections of specialised scholarly texts […]