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Precarity, Liminality, mobility: childhood in the cinema of the Dardenne Brothers Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Matthew Smith
Using the work of Pamela Robertson Wojcik, this article positions the Dardennes treamtment of the child as an example of ‘slow death cinema’ (Robertson Wojcik, 2021) an exntesion of Laurent Berlant...
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Experiencing films Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Owen Evans
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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João de Deus’s musical perversions: a case study on the music and sexuality in two films by João César Monteiro Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2024-02-28 José Pinto, Margarida Medeiros
This article addresses the music and its interactions in two films directed by João César Monteiro – Recordações da Casa Amarela [Recollections of the Yellow House] and A Comédia de Deus [God’s Com...
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Romance and Hitchcock? Viewing master of suspense as master of romance Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Indumathi Somashekar, Nivedhitha D, Melwyn S. Pinto
This essay through literature and textual analysis argues that romance or romantic love is a dominant theme in Alfred Hitchcock’s films alongside suspense. Romance in Hitchcock’s films is highlight...
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Black Film British Cinema II Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2024-02-19 William Brown
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The motherly gaze in Aslaug Holm’s Brothers (Brødre, 2015) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Atėnė Mendelytė
Award-winning Norwegian filmmaker Aslaug Holm’s Brothers (Brødre, 2015) is a documentary that explores the question of how to imbue contingency with significance and extract what is the most real (...
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Sublime aesthetics in Philippe Grandrieux’s Un lac Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Troy Michael Bordun
In this article, I assess Philippe Grandrieux’s Un lac (2008) through the lens of the sublime. I offer a formal analysis of the film supported by contemporary theorists who have previously articula...
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Potential for a new normal after all? Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Owen Evans
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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In the circle of tradition and conservatism: the heroic child in Turkish cinema according to collective values Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Hasan Gürkan, Başak Gezmen
This study focuses on the representation of the child in Turkish cinema, particularly in films where the child is central to the narrative. Turkish cinema constructed a national cinematic language ...
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Cinema between monochrome painting and light vibrations: Essentieel (1964) by Jef Verheyen and Paul De Vree Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Steven Jacobs, Kathy Vanhout
Essentieel (1964) is a short experimental film made by Belgian abstract painter Jef Verheyen in collaboration with poet Paul De Vree. A cinematic equivalent of Verheyen’s attempts in representing t...
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Film and the Imagined Image Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Aldo Kempen
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Looking beyond neoliberalism: French and francophone Belgian cinema and the crisis Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Francesco Sticchi
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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History as Ritual: Fernando Arrabal’s L’arbre de Guernica and the Panic Historical Film Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Yago Paris
ABSTRACT In the present article, L’Arbre de Guernica (Fernando Arrabal, 1975) is analysed. The aim of this paper is to study the suitability of an experimental film as a representation of the past. In the first part, I analyse its aesthetics, following the research developed by authors such as González, Monreal or Sánchez, who have studied Arrabal’s Panic Theatre. The goal of this subchapter is to
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Racially profiled?: ‘Jewish’ vampirism in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Molly Harrabin
ABSTRACT Since 1947 and Siegfried Kracauer’s seminal From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, Weimar Film Studies has been dominated by discussions on the representation of power, which has only recently begun to fall away. This article breaks away from this tradition and contributes to a new range of approaches to Weimar cinema, which centre upon figures belonging to a
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Social observation in miniature: Ruben Östlund’s short films as a model for his feature films Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Birger Langkjær
ABSTRACT This article focuses on Ruben Östlund’s two short films Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 (2005) and Talks PURE (2010) and argues that they align intimately with his feature films. This argument has two parts: First, Östlund’s short films have a distinct authorial signature that depends on his portrayal of social interaction that develops in awkward ways, the ‘durative’ long shot and the
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Docu-musical, migration and media reflexivity in The Harvest (2017) and Dimmi chi sono (2019) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Sabine Schrader
ABSTRACT In the documentaries The Harvest (2017, Andrea Paco Mariani) and Dimmi chi sono (Sarita, 2019, Sergio Basso), the directors seek to raise awareness of a rarely told story, true to the tradition of politically engaged documentary. The Harvest denounces the slavery-like conditions in which Indian harvest hands work in Italy, while Dimmi chi photosono serves both as an archive for forgotten stories
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In and out of the zoom: The photographic act as frame of precarity in Italy’s postcolonial cinema since 1990 Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Stella Lange
ABSTRACT Michele Placido’s Pummarò (1990) and Carmine Amoroso’s Cover Boy (2006) bring the legal, economic, and social precarity of West African and East European migrants in Italy to the screen. This article examines, firstly, how subjects who come from the Global South, or who are marked as such, are framed in their precarity from a Eurocentric perspective and, secondly, how they exercise agency
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Intermediality and media reflexivity in Italian cinema of migration Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Sabine Schrader, Stella Lange
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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“È così che è nato il mito dell ’america” – media reflexivity in Emanuele Crialese’s Once We Were Strangers (1997) and Nuovomondo (2006) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Antonio Salmeri
ABSTRACT Emanuele Crialese’s films about Italian emigration draw attention to their own mediality, just as in the films of the Taviani brothers (1984, 1987) and Gianni Amelio’s Lamerica (1994). Based on a study of Once We Were Strangers (1997) and Nuovomondo (2006), this article uses the concept of Bildspannung (‘image tension’) to explore the original potential of this media-reflexive technique. The
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Europe’s irresolvable messiness Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Owen Evans, Graeme Harper
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2023)
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Natural is not in it: Irony, Environment and Genre in Spoor (2017) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
ABSTRACT Agnieszka Holland’s animal rights horror-thriller Spoor (2017) can be read as a revenge tale wherein women, non-hegemonic men and animals join forces against the hunters and, implicitly, against what they represent: the conservative worldview of the current nationalist government in Poland. Spoor offers a feminist, queer and ecological response to these values and, in the process, expands
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Detached retinas: empathy and the transmedial interstices of RAI fiction Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Jacopo Colombini, Derek Duncan
ABSTRACT In this essay, we analyse two mainstream Italian TV dramas about the Mediterranean crossing produced by the Italian national public broadcasting company RAI. Lampedusa dall’orizzonte in poi (2016, Marco Pontecorvo) and I fantasmi di Portopalo (2017a,b Alessandro Angelini) were both two-part mini-series broadcast in prime-time slots on consecutive nights on RAI 1. Inspired by real events which
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Manoel de Oliveira and the reconciliation between theatre and cinema: forms and resources for the audiovisual preservation of theatre in his films Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Francisco Javier Ruiz del Olmo, Antonio Cantos-Ceballos
ABSTRACT The extensive, enigmatic, and singular work of the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira (1908–2015) has been analysed from many perspectives, emphasising the importance of literary adaptations and the historical and cultural contexts in which the main characters are situated, as well as the pictorial or visual references. This research, however focuses on ways of integrating and preserving
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Béla Tarr and the moving camera: slow noir in Damnation and The Man from London Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Kyle Barrowman
ABSTRACT In the history of film studies, few developments have proven to be as fascinating as film noir, while few aesthetic devices have proven to be as perplexing as camera movement. In this article, I articulate the terms of a unique noir aesthetic predicated on the moving camera in the films of the Béla Tarr. A renowned exponent of what is known as slow cinema, Tarr’s work has captivated scholars
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European film remakes Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Agnieszka Ramus
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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East German Film and the Holocaust Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Seán Allan
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The journey of an identity: disorienting transnational identifications in Souad El Bouhati’s Française (2008) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Said Chemlal
ABSTRACT This article attempts to bring to light the process of identification among diasporic Moroccan-French subjects through analysing Souad El Bouhati's debut feature film Française (French Girl, 2008). With a postcolonially-inflected concern, I shall delve into how the film defines identity as an entity that has to do with becoming, not with being. Born and raised in France, Sofia, the protagonist
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Review of Vampires in Italian cinema, 1956-1975 Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Louis Bayman
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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German film classics: coming out Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Stephan Ehrig
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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The end of an era? Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Owen Evans, Graeme Harper
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2022)
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Introduction: non-theatrical film festivals Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-09-11 Marco Dalla Gassa, Andrea Gelardi, Angela Bianca Saponari, Federico Zecca
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 19, No. 3, 2022)
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Festivals and dispositifs of analog counter-culture Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Rossella Catanese, Clizia Centorrino
ABSTRACT This essay aims to provide an overview of the festivals dedicated to the analog films and performance practices of filmmakers and artist-run laboratories that posit themselves as media counter-culture and analog ‘resistance’. Such events offer the films’ material quality as a contrast to the planned obsolescence common in the IT industry. Currently, many filmmakers, artists and collectives
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How does film education increase the economic and social impact of European arthouse cinema? the case of the danish initiative Med Skolen i Biografen /School Cinema Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Petar Mitric
ABSTRACT Focusing on one representative case study – the Danish film literacy initiative School Cinema (Med skolen i biografen) – this article investigates how film education can make European arthouse cinema more sustainable in both cultural and industrial terms. The analysis has shown that one successful model builds on a collaboration between the cultural sectors and the market players where the
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Local/global: amateur cinema and new forms of valorization in archival film festivals Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Diego Cavallotti, Paolo Simoni
ABSTRACT This paper will focus on the new landscapes of valorization and access to amateur/small gauge films within the archival film festival context. Archival small gauge film festivals present themselves as something completely different from those festivals dedicated to amateur and experimental cinema in the past, mainly because their goal is to valorize assets that have been deposited in specialized
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Conceptualising festival ecosystems. Insights from the ethnographic film festival subcircuit Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Aida Vallejo, María Paz Peirano
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the positioning of specialised festivals within the wider film festival ecosystem, using ethnographic film festivals as a case-study. Drawing on concepts developed within environmental research in Anthropology, we propose a structural and relational model for the analysis of festivals as all-encompassing socio-cultural events. Firstly, we conduct a literature review
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[Rec] and beyond: Spanish cinema, digital technology and the transnationalization of horror Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-07-24 Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
Abstract The horror franchise [Rec] (2007-2014) is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in 21st century Spanish cinema. While banking on transnational modes of address such as the ‘found footage’ aesthetics and the imperfect look of digital technology, these films also build upon existing traditions within Spanish cinema and television. At the same, from an financial standpoint, it is the most
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‘Ghosts don’t cry’: state of exception and the mother(land) in Pedro Almodóvar’s Live Flesh (1997) and Volver (2006) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Mercedes Camino
ABSTRACT Volver and Live Flesh present the contradictions inherent in celebrating assertive motherhood through the ‘costumbrista’ tradition that Almodóvar has adapted and adopted throughout his career. Nostalgic yearning for a ‘return’ to the mother(land) is filtered in these films through a view of women projected through casting, costume, as well as the segregation of cinematic space. This results
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Amateur film festivals: sources, history, and perspectives Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Paolo Caneppele
ABSTRACT This essay is aimed at establishing those theoretical and methodological coordinates necessary to an historical analysis of amateur film festivals. Research dedicated to this subject is sporadic. In core volumes on festival studies, the terms ‘amateur’, ‘home movies’, or ‘small gauge’ do not even appear. The reasons for this historiographical oversight must be discussed especially in relation
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Sans soleil by Chris Marker. The essay film and its cinematic thinking process: reflecting on postmodernity Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez
ABSTRACT The essay film is defined by its capability to embody an audiovisual thinking process. Chris Marker’s Sans soleil/Sunless (1983) is undoubtedly one of the highest expressions of this filmic form, which reflects on postmodernity through the nature of images. This article aims to analyse the thinking in act of the film, using Jacques Rancière’s concept of sentence-image, and applying Gilles
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‘A lot of soundtracks are quite boring’ Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Owen Evans, Graeme Harper
(2022). ‘A lot of soundtracks are quite boring’. Studies in European Cinema: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 93-95.
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Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory: Imagining the Turkish Nation since the 1980 Coup Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Can Koçak
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Subversive Spanish Cinema: The Politics of Performance Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Inmaculada N. Sánchez-García
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Films of pedro costa: producing and consuming contemporary art cinema Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Dominic Lash
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-06 William Brown
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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The Spanish quinqui film: delinquency, sound, sensation Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Cormac Donnelly
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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Miraculous Realism: The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Michael Cramer
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023)
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Seeing from scratch: fifteen lessons with Godard, with the postcard game Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Michael Grace
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Luchino Visconti and the fabric of cinema Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Will Kitchen
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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New realism: contemporary British cinema Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Nigel Morris
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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An international study of film museums Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Dina Iordanova
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Cinema of crisis: film and contemporary Europe Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Mariana Liz
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Post-crisis European cinema: white men in off-modern landscapes Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Zsófia Orosz-Réti
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Women in Iberian filmic culture: a feminist approach to the cinemas of Portugal and Spain Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Agata Lulkowska
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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ReFocus: the films of Andrei Tarkovsky Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-04 James L. Shelton
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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The cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: commitment to style Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Paul Sutton
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Post-Unification Turkish German cinema: work, globalisation and politics beyond representation Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Ecem Yıldırım
Published in Studies in European Cinema (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2023)
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Desire as the being in La vie d’Adèle, chapitres 1 & 2/Blue is the warmest colour Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Ying Chen
When addressing the concept of desire, it is similar to inspecting the experience for which cinemas usually offer because there is a type of language as a default affirming the viewer can be involv...
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Women’s affective transactions and the memory of Hungarian (historical) affairs: Istvan Szabo’s The Door (2012) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Szidonia Haragos
The article highlights the cinematic portrayal of a woman’s exceptional affective agency against the backdrop of historical trauma, more specifically, of the Holocaust in Hungary, in Hungarian dire...
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Seeking another justice in Fatih Akın’s “The Edge of Heaven” (2004) and “In the Fade” (2017) Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Melis Öneren Özbek
This study explores the representation of the other in relation to justice regardless of ethnicity in two Fatih Akın films: The Edge of Heaven and In The Fade. By addressing the potential effect of...
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Step right up and take a whiff! Does incorporating scents in film projection increase viewer enjoyment? Studies in European Cinema Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Josep Solves, Sebastián Sánchez-Castillo, Begoña Siles
Cinema has always sought to be an art of synthesis, not only by wedding art and science and integrating the aesthetic beauty of the other art forms, but also through attempting to involve all of th...