Article
Film, Radio, Television
Hasan Gurkan, Ovunc Ege
Summary: This study investigates the portrayal of men in post-2010 Turkish action films and finds that male characters are often depicted as either self-sacrificing heroes for their family and nation, or as negative figures who do not conform to societal norms. These films generally lack female characters, reflecting a world dominated by men.
STUDIES IN EUROPEAN CINEMA
(2023)
Article
Communication
Sarah E. Rose, Alexandra M. Lamont, Nicholas Reyland
Summary: Experimental study on the effects of program pace on 3- and 4-year-olds' attention, problem solving, and comprehension showed that children demonstrated different responses to pace, but no significant differences were observed in task performance based on pace, suggesting that fast-paced entertainment programs may not necessarily have harmful effects on young children.
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Rachel McCabe
Summary: Joe Berlinger's documentary series delves into Ted Bundy's crimes, critiquing the media portrayal of him and exploring viewers' complex emotional responses. The documentary has the power to elicit necessary emotional responses from audiences and reframing established narratives.
STUDIES IN DOCUMENTARY FILM
(2022)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Axelle Asmar, Tim Raats, Leo Van Audenhove
Summary: This article examines how Netflix uses rhetorical framing to emphasize diversity in its corporate communication and generate transnational appeal through its branding of diversity.
CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION
(2023)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Vittorio Gallese, Michele Guerra
Summary: In the last decades, cognitive neuroscience has made significant contributions to film studies in three main areas: rethinking film theory and history, empirical research on the relationship between the movie and the viewer, and experimental approaches to the digital image and new forms of film spectatorship.
PROJECTIONS-THE JOURNAL FOR MOVIES AND MIND
(2022)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Murray Smith
Summary: This article examines the relationship between detailed critical analysis and the background assumptions of film spectatorship theory using the work of Gallese and Guerra as an example. It argues that a thorough analysis of film form and style is crucial in demonstrating the plausibility of theoretical claims.
PROJECTIONS-THE JOURNAL FOR MOVIES AND MIND
(2022)
Article
Communication
Andrew J. Flanagin, Zijian Lew
Summary: Online information repositories can serve as memory aids in people's lives. However, accessing these repositories can lead to false equivalencies between web-based information and personal knowledge, which can affect people's judgments of themselves, information search tasks, and the internet. Studies show that cognitive processing fluency, access to reliable web-based information, and actively searching for information are associated with metacognition and task performance judgments. People tend to overestimate the degree to which they find the web as a source of relevant information, overestimate their future task performance and the ease of tasks, and inflate their own perceived cognitive and memory abilities. The results also indicate that those who are least competent in task completion tend to overestimate their performance, while the most competent underestimate theirs. Additionally, the availability of web-based information can inflate people's estimated performance, particularly among the more competent.
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Catalina Iordache, Tim Raats, Sam Mombaerts
Summary: This article examines Netflix's investments in original documentaries and analyzes the company's strategies and investment patterns in different regions, languages, and genres. The study finds that investments in original documentaries have been increasing over time, with the majority being commissioned or exclusive titles. The transnational production and distribution of Netflix Original documentaries reflect the changing landscape of cultural trade brought on by the streaming model.
STUDIES IN DOCUMENTARY FILM
(2023)
Article
Communication
Femke Geusens, Y. Anthony Chen, Bradley Kerr, Megan Moreno
Summary: This study found that sharing alcohol references on social media is positively associated with alcohol use among college students, with this relationship reflecting group differences rather than within-person effects. Additionally, sharing intoxication alcohol references on Facebook was negatively related to alcohol use at the within-person level.
Article
Communication
Florencia Garcia-Rapp
Summary: The study of the reception of Game of Thrones in Spain, Germany, and Argentina reveals varying degrees of analytic and emotional engagement among viewers, leading to diverse fan subjectivities. The show provides a space for viewers to engage on both axes of drillability and spreadability, catering to casual viewers and die-hard fans alike. The study also reflects on academic discourses and proposes a more culturally relativistic approach to acknowledge individual agency.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2022)
Article
Art
Nadia McGowan, Rafael Repiso, Julio Montero Diaz
Summary: This study highlights the limitations of using indexed databases in bibliometric studies and proposes the use of non-source items as a starting point. By utilizing Open Syllabus and Web of Science to determine academic impact and co-citation relationships, this study reveals the most relevant works and authors in the field of Film and Photography and provides a valuable literature map for research.
FOTOCINEMA-REVISTA CIENTIFICA DE CINE Y FOTOGRAFIA
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Felicia Istad, Min Jung Kim, Nathaniel Ming Curran
Summary: This article examines the influence of production techniques on the representation of cultural diversity in South Korean reality television. It discusses the evolving guidelines of the South Korean government regarding the portrayal of minorities on TV, emphasizing the need to avoid discriminatory framing of migrants. By analyzing three popular multicultural-themed reality shows, the article demonstrates how these shows bypass the government's guidelines through specific production techniques such as voice-overs and format decisions. The authors argue that these techniques, along with genre and financial constraints, contribute to the othering of the migrants depicted on South Korean reality TV. The article concludes by urging reality television to accurately reflect the changing demographics of the country, positively represent minority guests, and encourage transformative dialogue about South Korea's multicultural present and future.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Communication
Yi Yang, Ru-De Liu, Jingxuan Liu, Yi Ding, Wei Hong, Shuyang Jiang
Summary: This longitudinal study found that parental active mediation can help reduce children's problematic mobile phone use, while there is a reciprocal negative relationship between parent-child relationships and children's problematic mobile phone use.
Article
Communication
Nathan Walter, Jonathan Cohen, Robin L. Nabi, Camille J. Saucier
Summary: Forming accurate risk perceptions and adopting protective measures are crucial in reducing the spread of infectious diseases. This study investigates whether having a parasocial relationship with a celebrity who has contracted COVID-19 amplifies perceived susceptibility to the virus and reduces biased optimism. The findings suggest that having a parasocial friend contract COVID-19 is associated with increased perceived susceptibility, especially for those who would otherwise find it abstract and vague.
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Naomi DeCelles
Summary: This article discusses the nearly nine hundred articles written by Lotte Eisner during her time at Film-Kurier, a prominent German trade paper. However, only a few of these articles have been translated into English, and there is no comprehensive catalog or collection of her works. The article presents a biographical sketch of Eisner and showcases ten of her articles on film aesthetics, industry regulation, and visual culture.
JCMS-JOURNAL OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Delphine Letort, Abderrahmene Bourenane
Summary: This article focuses on a comparative study of four European films released in 2016 from Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. It explores the portrayal of the radicalized girl as a symbol of fear in Western democracies and the threat of terrorism. These films aim to educate parents and audiences about early signs of radicalization and challenge Orientalist perceptions of the Other.
STUDIES IN EUROPEAN CINEMA
(2022)
Article
Film, Radio, Television
Orit Dudai
Summary: This paper explores how the film "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" represents the difficulties of uncovering meaning and truth in a psychoanalytic process. The film follows a journey to solve a murder mystery without any reference, trace, or known motivation. The protagonists' search for truth is met with a maze of empty signs, leading to distortion, disorientation, and multiple conflicting narratives. The paper reflects on the film's poetic style and its ability to capture a reality beyond its mimetic aspects, highlighting the role of memory, dreams, and the unconscious. Ultimately, the film offers a resolution that goes beyond mere facts by presenting a universal truth.
STUDIES IN EUROPEAN CINEMA
(2022)
Editorial Material
Film, Radio, Television
Diana Flores Ruiz
Article
Communication
Sander De Ridder
Summary: Mobile dating apps use data-driven operations to build intimacy, displaying characteristics of commercialization and rationalization. This data-driven approach creates an interdependency between a data economy and intimate relationships among people.
TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Jilly Boyce Kay, Helen Wood
Summary: Drawing on Raymond Williams's work, this article argues that in the context of covid-19, the dominant 'ways of seeing' the countryside and the city in Britain are obscuring the structural violence of capitalism, leading to an 'unseeing' of the deep structural causes of inequality.
CONTINUUM-JOURNAL OF MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
