A knife at the heart. Gaspar Noé: filmmaker of a contemporary social? The tragedy of a man (alone) in the tragedy of the century by Broda, Vladimir

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Representations, meanings and senses when tasting a cup of coffee on the big screen by Díaz Boada, Sandro Alberto, Silva Arias, Catalina

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Emerge. The traumatic image in Gus Van Sant by Hammerli, Frédérique

“…It is difficult to ignore the recurrence of trauma in the filmmaker’s work, from the very first films to the last. …”
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The sex’s choice by Álvarez Villanueva, Margarita

“…XXY, is a dramatic film from the Argentinian filmmaker Lucia Puenzo, which is the story of Alex, a teenager of fifteen years old, who is affected by their intersex condition. …”
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Les choses humaines by Widmer, Vania

“…Through the examination of the narrative and comments made by the filmmaker himself, sexual and gender violence is explored within the framework of a specific family and social culture.…”
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Put politics, ethics and aesthetics in crisis by Bernateau, Isée

“…Theplot presents the increscendo of violence, which the Italian filmmaker sets in a completely different framework from the original. …”
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Los deseos concebidos by Radiszcz, Esteban

“…In fact, contrary to the hypnotic tyranny of the film cultural industry, the film’s oneiric dimension decentralises the image that, disseminated according to its deviation between the interstices of the images, dislocates the uniformity of the image offered by the Dream Factory (Ehrenburg). The Chilean filmmaker Cristián Sanchez’s film Los deseos concebidos shows precisely this oneiric subversion that, as much by its diegesis as by its treatment of the images, by the images and among the images, resists to make of the film “only a dream”.…”
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We should stop talking about Benjamin for two years. Art, technique and mass by Greco, Mauro

“…In third place, I will develop the reflections about cinema of other author, Jean Epstetin, filmmaker and philosopher of the movies, attending to the possible similitude in the ways of thinking the cinema as technique. …”
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Under the sign of a wild god: contemporary scenarios of the superhero by Pintor Iranzo, Ivan

“…Both the contemporary singularities of the mutant, on the one hand, and the unorthodox approaches to the superhero by the filmmaker Manoj Night Shyamalan constitute a philosophical, ethical and mythological investigation of the political, social and perceptive devices that accompany the legacy of this tradition born at the same time that the adventurous comic-strips of the thirties…”
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Documentary film and genocide. Some ethical problem by Zylberman, Lior

“…Documentary theorists such as Brian Winston, Carl Plantinga, and Bill Nichols have set out two main axes around ethics and documentary: the duties of the filmmaker towards the spectator –in terms of truth-falsehood– and towards the subjects represented. …”
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“Between Fright and Affection”: Voices of Betrayal and Resistance in the Chilean Transition to Democracy by Albornoz Fariña, Ignacio

“…Throughout the text, it will be argued that Castillo’s film functions as a site for the establishing of a double “mise en scène” of the ‘self’; a place where two divergent life trajectories intersect with each other: that of the filmmaker, present as well in the image, and that of the filmed subject, the “symbol of treason” Marcia Merino. …”
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The Surviving Love of Marguerite Duras by Suárez, Claudia

“…He, therefore, chooses Marguerite Duras, screenplay writer and filmmaker. The result is the famous film Hiroshima mon amour (1959), which constitutes her debut. …”
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A country to eat. Identity and gastronomy in Bigas Luna’s cinema by Pavés, Gonzalo

“…Bigas Luna was undoubtedly one of the most charismatic, original and brilliant filmmakers of contemporary Spanish cinema. Over nearly four decades of intense creative work where he combined his passion for painting with various film projects, the filmmaker built a cinematic universe where it was possible to distinguish some recurring themes. …”
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Moral and Traveling Ethical commitment and formal statements in Cahiers du cinéma by Oubiña, David

“…Where does a filmmaker’s ethical commitment lie? In his intention or in his style? …”
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Psychoanalysis in Cinema and Theater: The Reverse of the Message Between the Director and the Viewer as the Antithesis of Scientific Discourse by Cabrera Kahuazango, Carlos Alexis

“…Also, it has been disrupted by the influence of its viewers as direct consumers of his work. In this sense, the filmmaker recognizes himself not only during the creative process of the film in relation to expressiveness and communication with his actors, even his goal goes beyond the construction of the film, it requires a symbolic setting to share his message and finally be able to fully recognize himself through the criticism of the Other when he projects his long-awaited "final product". …”
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The battle of Chile: image, poetry, memory by Humphreys, Derek

“…It is from the films in which the South African artist William Kentridge questions the function of the “memorial” in sites, sometimesforgotten, having witnessed the violence of apartheid, that I propose an approach to the mutation of registers that can be seen in the work of thedocumentary filmmaker Patricio Guzman, between the pure inscription of the image in “La batalla de Chile”, up to the poetic montage of “Nostalgiade la luz”. …”
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Álex de la Iglesia and the scenes of heights: Symbolism of space from the narrative by Jiménez González, Marcos

“…Álex de la Iglesia is a filmmaker whose recognition has grown exponentially from the 1990s to the present. …”
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