Category: Film Studies
Fidelity in Nonfiction Motion Pictures: An Analysis of Nollywood’s Apaye
Fictional stories are easy to make and even easier to consume because apart from the fact that filmmakers get to …
Space and Time Through the Lens: A Cinematic Exploration From Lumière, Warhol and Keiller
To gain a deeper understanding of how space and time are depicted in cinematic movement-image, this paper analyzes five seminal …
Semiotic Analysis of Fan-Made Illustrations in Film Parasite Posters: Visualizing Social Inequality
The movie Parasite (Bong, 2019) made history as the first Asian film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, …
Visual Semiotics of Javanese Cultural Signs in Indonesia’s Popular Horror Film Titled “KKN Di Desa Penari”
The rapid development of horror films in Indonesia provides a perspective on the increasing trend and global interest in the …
Rural Narratives and Media Convergence in Thai Cinema
The year 2023 marked a resurgence for Thai cinema, highlighted by the successes of The Undertaker and Death Whisperer, which …
Mythic-Historical Elements and the Evolution of the Image of Dracula in Popular Culture: The Case Study of Dracula Untold
Dracula is an iconic character in popular culture, with his origins tracing back to the Romanian ruler, Vlad the Impaler, …
New Comedy Paradigm: The Ascendancy of Stand-Up Comics in Indonesian Film
This study examines the trend of stand-up comedians entering the Indonesian film industry, particularly focusing on their influence on the …
Campus Cinema: University Portrayals in Contemporary Films
This research analyses English-speaking films made from 2014 to 2024 that are primarily set in university environments. The main aim …
Intergenerational Solidarity in Pixar’s “La Luna”
This paper aims at examining intergenerational bonds in Disney and Pixar's short film La Luna (2011). More specifically, Bengtson and …
Panopticon Perspective: Visual Analysis of a Film
Bent Hamer’s movie Kitchen Stories (2003) is a Norwegian movie that is a combination of the post-war context within the …
The Implicit Observer: Exploring Voiceover and the Sense of Reality in Taiwanese Documentary Films
This study examines the role of voiceover in Taiwanese documentary films, with a focus on the increasing use of self-narration …
Disability or a Personal Lifestyle? Examining Indian and Foreign Depictions of Obesity in “Double XL” and “The Whale”
Growing obesity rates are a serious problem among Indigenous populations in several nations throughout the world. Numerous media studies have …
Orientalism and Self-Orientalization: A Case Study of Female Images in Chinese Films Awarded at the San Sebastian Film Festival
Since the 1980s, Chinese cinema has gained international recognition, with an increasing number of Chinese films receiving accolades overseas. The …
Unvelling Red Culture in Zhang Yimou’s Films Through a Semiotic Perspective
From "Red Sorghum" (1987) to "Full River Red" (2023), Zhang Yimou's illustrious career spanning over four decades has been marked …
Cinematic Practices of Repetitions in “The Grudge” and “Ju-On: Origins” –Remaking Networks, Contexts and Building Taxonomy
Globalization processes profoundly affected the world economy and, consequently, film industries. Film remakes, among the most well-known forms of creative …
Biography as Cinema Verité? Writing Steve Job’s Life
This paper reviews the biographical film within the genre of documentary and proposes a contemporary approach to a subgenre. Neither …
Decomposing the Stereotypes: East-West Dichotomy in the Film Adaptations of W. S. Maugham’s the Painted Veil
William Somerset Maugham’s classical novel The Painted Veil (1925), in which a marital crisis is set against a cholera epidemic …
Using the ‘Candle in the Tomb’ Fandom as an Example and Explain Its Associated Behaviours and Values
In recent years, IP films and their fans have received increasing attention. Every film adaptation of an IP work has …
Roars and Recuts: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and American Versions of Godzilla 1954-1962
This presentation explains how various American distribution companies rebranded the first three Japanese films about Godzilla. I propose these examples …
Kissing Scenes in the Representation of Family in Post-war Japanese Films
Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse are well-known Japanese filmmakers who depict the “everyday life” (nichijo in Japanese) of family in …
Droids and Peasants: Akira Kurosawa’s Thematic Influence on the Star Wars Saga
Following the international success of Rashomon (1950) and Seven Samurai (1954), Akira Kurosawa’s films came to exemplify Japanese cinema to …
Strength Through Poetry as We Regain Our Balance in the Cinematic COVID Aftermath
Drawing on aforementioned Seamus Heaney and his symbolic reference to a great sea change or tidal wave indicating that a …