Soap film analysis by speckle interferometer

Reverse draining of a magnetic soap film — Analysis and simulation of a thin film equation with non-uniform forcing

Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena ◽

10.1016/j.physd.2009.08.014 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 238 (22) ◽

pp. 2153-2165 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

D.E. Moulton ◽

J. Lega

Keyword(s):

Thin Film ◽

Soap Film ◽

Film Analysis ◽

Thin Film Equation

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Formative Influences

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422888.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Hilary Radner ◽

Alistair Fox

Keyword(s):

Michel Foucault ◽

Roland Barthes ◽

Film Analysis ◽

The 1960S ◽

Christian Metz ◽

The Way

In this section of the interview, Bellour describes how he began to engage in film analysis in the 1960s, beginning with a sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with the aim of establishing the way it worked as a “text.” He proceeds to describe his personal encounters with major figures like Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and his friendship with Christian Metz, suggesting how his interchanges with them helped to shape his own thinking, and how it diverged from theirs.

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Film Analysis: Image and Movement

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422888.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Hilary Radner ◽

Alistair Fox

Keyword(s):

Scientific Practice ◽

Film Analysis ◽

Hollywood Film ◽

Poetic Expression ◽

French Tradition ◽

Classical Hollywood

This chapter assesses Raymond Bellour’s contribution to the area of research known as “film analysis,” arguing that it is best understood as an “art” rather than a scientific practice. Grounded in the French tradition of “explication du texte” as a means of approaching literature, Bellour was among the first film scholars to bring a French literary sensibility to the analysis of Classical Hollywood film, which enabled him to recognize the rhetorical refinements of the cinematic medium and its potential for poetic expression. The chapter explores the significant concepts that define Bellour’s approach: segmentation; “the unattainable text” (also referred to as “the undiscoverable text” or “le texte introuvable”); le blocage symbolique (also referred to as “the symbolic blockage”);“the textual volume”; Hitchcock and psychoanalysis; and enunciation.

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