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The Dance Company Film 舞团电影
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.5406/19346018.74.1.2.06
Pamela Krayenbuhl
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Reconstructing the Uncertain Past: Cracked Docudramas That Question Their Own Authority 重建不确定的过去:质疑自身权威的破碎纪实剧
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.5406/19346018.74.1.2.08
Jeff Rush
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Awakening from Neoliberal Rationalities: The Ecological Conversion of Brit Marling's Protagonist in The East 从新自由主义理性中觉醒:英国作家马林在《东方》中主人公的生态转换
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.5406/19346018.74.1.2.02
Mónica Martín
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Violence against Women and Girls: Female Filmmakers Critique the Menace 针对妇女和女孩的暴力:女性电影人对威胁的批判
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.5406/19346018.74.1.2.07
Joyce Osei Owusu
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Stranger Things, Nostalgia, and Aesthetics 怪奇物语,怀旧和美学
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.5406/19346018.74.1.2.01
Zachary Griffith
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"This Is What's Real": The Pathology of Black Addiction in the Hood Films of the 1990s “这是真实的”:20世纪90年代胡德电影中黑人成瘾的病理学
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.5406/19346018.74.1.2.03
Curt Hersey
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Why Is Reverse Motion Funny? Happy End and the Comic Potential of the Cinematographic Mechanism 为什么反向运动很有趣?快乐结局和电影机制的喜剧潜力
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.4.0003
Max Tohline, Sun Yi, Anthony L. Silvestri, Daniel Maddock
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What Is Cinematography in the Age of Virtual Film Production? Posing a New Definition for the Practice of Cinematography 虚拟电影制作时代的电影摄影是什么?为电影摄影实践提出新的定义
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.4.0044
Daniel Maddock
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Generic Involution and Artistic Concession in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema: Overheard Trilogy and Beyond 当代香港电影的一般内卷与艺术让步:窃听三部曲及其后的发展
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.4.0015
Sun Yi
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Kenneth Anger and the Filmed-Archive Reenactment 肯尼斯·安格尔与档案馆的再现
IF 0.1 3区 艺术学
JOURNAL OF FILM AND VIDEO Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.4.0029
Anthony L. Silvestri
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