scholarly journals Teaching European cinema

2018 ◽  
pp. 160-218
Author(s):  
Skadi Loist
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
European Network ◽  
Jury Deliberation ◽  
European Universities ◽  
European Cinema ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
European University ◽  
Different Levels

The “Teaching European Cinema” dossier has grown out of the European University Film Award (EUFA) project that was initiated in 2016 by Filmfest Hamburg in collaboration with the European Film Academy (EFA) and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). In its second edition in 2017, the EUFA connected twenty European universities in a common teaching project in which five nominated films were analysed and discussed in courses of the respective universities. Subsequently, one student representative per country joined the three-day student jury deliberation in Hamburg and voted for the final EUFA winner. In 2016, Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake (2016) won the inaugural EUFA; in 2017, Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s Heartstone (Hjartasteinn, 2016) was awarded the prize. The dossier works on different levels: first, it aims to present the EUFA project to a wider public; second, it promotes an exchange among the participating colleagues; and third, it operates as a teaching dossier for scholars within the wider field of European film and media studies to discuss questions of how best to teach contemporary European cinema.

Urban Mediation and Mobility in Istanbul

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-136
Author(s):  
Dorit Müller
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
European Network ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Ample Opportunity ◽  
Extensive Analysis ◽  
Broad Scope ◽  
Film And Media Studies

The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) held its fifth annual conference “Urban Mediations” from June 24 to 27, 2010 in the European Capital of Culture 2010, Istanbul. A wide variety of scholars and researchers in the field of cinema, film, and media studies, but also archivists or film and media professionals were invited. The broad scope theme of “urban mediations” provided ample opportunity for extensive analysis and discussion of media and urbanity theories by the attendees. In more than 80 panels, with four talks each, various questions could be discussed. For example: How are city spaces represented and created in different media? What urban practices and aesthetics develop when using “media”? To what extent do new media forms influence future urban developments or make them possible in the first place? How does media shape city-human interaction?

Film and Media Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Gemünden
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Film And Media Studies

scholarly journals The European Universities Initiative: A Study of Alliance Formation in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Andrew Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Alliance Formation ◽  
Pilot Phase ◽  
Collaborative Advantage ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Political Project ◽  
European University ◽  
Network Of Networks

Abstract This chapter explores the origins, rationales and design of the European Universities Initiative (EUI), a new scheme to create a series of multilateral university alliances. The idea of creating a supranational university can be traced back to the beginnings of the European political project in the late 1940s, but despite various endeavours, this ambition remained unfulfilled. The chapter places the EUI within this long-running debate and focuses on the period following French President Macron’s 2017 Sorbonne speech which advocated a new network of universities. This provided the impetus to reignite the supranational university debate and subsequently resulted in the launch of the EUI pilot phase. The chapter explains why the EUI succeeded where previous attempts at a European university over the preceding 70 years had stalled. The analysis finds the EUI to be a novel form of alliance formation which can be viewed as a ‘network of networks’. Considering the design of the EUI, how the alliances have the potential to generate collaborative advantage for their members is considered, which also identifies some of the challenges that lie ahead for the scheme.

scholarly journals Approaches to Studying Intermediality in Contemporary Cinema

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ágnes Pethő
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Approaches To Studying ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
European Cinema ◽  
Expanded Cinema ◽  
New Type ◽  
Contemporary Cinema

Abstract The article attempts a brief overview and evaluation of the main theoretical approaches that have emerged in the study of cinematic intermediality in the last decades since intermediality has become an established research term in media studies. It distinguishes three major paradigms in theorizing intermedia phenomena and outlines some of the directions of change in the intermedial strategies of recent films. It identifies in contemporary cinema a tendency to add new dimensions to the relations of in-betweenness regarding both the connection of cinema to reality and its inter-art entanglements. Finally, the article describes a new type of intermediality, which integrates elements of trans-textuality, creating a format of expanded cinema within cinema. This strategy is presented in the context of Eastern European cinema through a short case study of Cristi Puiu’s film, Sieranevada (2016).

Between Erlebnis and Erfahrung: Cinema Experience with Benjamin

Paragraph ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Elsaesser
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Media Event ◽  
Sudden Motion ◽  
Emotion And Affect

The ‘turn’ to emotion and affect in film and media studies may take its distance from earlier ways of understanding spectatorial involvement (modelled on psychoanalytic notions of identification). But such approaches, whether cognitivist in intent, or inspired by phenomenology, also return to an earlier interest in bodily sensations and somatic responses when exposed to sudden motion and moving images (associated with ideas such as innervation, shock and over-stimulation). The essay proposes to bring Walter Benjamin into the debate, with a term central to his idea of modernity, namely ‘experience’, and to revive his distinction between Erfahrung and Erlebnis. Noting certain features of excess and liminiality in contemporary cinema, and mapping them across the three distinct domains of body, time and agency, Benjamin's own attempt to locate the emotional core of the technical media is reappraised. Grounded in the peculiar variability but also interdependence of place, narration and perception, the cinema would then appear to provide Erlebnis without Erfahrung, a state formerly associated with trauma, but now the very definition of the media event.

What Happens in a Hindi Film?

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 492-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Inden
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
Hindi Film

AbstractThis paper looks at the popular Hindi film and its treatment in film and media studies. It criticises the assumption that “entertainment” is a simple universal, arguing that it needs to be seen rather as a problematic, historic institution. The author attempts a preliminary reconstruction of Indian discourse on film and entertainment, a discourse marginalised or ignored by Eurocentric scholarship on film in South Asia. Central to the Indian discourse are historically situated notions of extravaganza, of spectacle (tamasha) in a paradise setting, and a focus on emotional experiences, those of wonder and of ecstasy and despair. The articulation of these elements has changed but continue to be constitutive of the popular Hindi film.

scholarly journals Furtado, Gustavo Procopio. Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present. Oxford UP, 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Rajca
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Documentary Filmmaking ◽  
Selection Of

In Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present, film and media studies scholar Gustavo Procopio Furtado makes an impressive contribution to the study of documentary films in Brazil. Consisting of three interrelated sections with two chapters each, the book engages with the concepts of documentary and archive from a variety of perspectives—combining socio-political and theoretical discussion with close analysis of a well-chosen selection of contemporary documentaries.

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