Dario Tomasi

Il professore che volteggia

Social Science

The article tries to define the role played by Planet Hong Kong. Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment in David Bordwell’s extensive bibliograph...

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This article, "Il professore che volteggia," offers a discerning examination of David Bordwell’s influential work, *Planet Hong Kong. Popular Cinema a...

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Adriano D'Aloia

Lo spettatore pensa, lo spettatore fa

Cognitive

The article analyzes David Bordwell’s contribution to contemporary film studies, emphasizing the importance of the viewer’s active role in the percept...

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Giaime Alonge

Dedicato a David Bordwell

Art

Questo dossier rende omaggio a David Bordwell (1947–2024), tra i massimi studiosi di cinema degli ultimi decenni. I tre saggi qui proposti – due dedic...

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The dossier "Dedicato a David Bordwell" presents itself as a poignant and essential homage to David Bordwell (1947–2024), recognized as one of the mos...

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Matteo Citrini

The Unbearable Cost of Development and Printing Plants

Industry

Result of the merger in 1973 between Spes and Tecnostampa, the two most important Italian film development and printing societies, Technospes constitu...

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Brian Train

Analog Board Games as Citizen Journalism

Journalism

This word “newsgame” is a recent term in the academic field of game studies that refers to videogames or computer games on current events and issues....

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This paper proposes a compelling re-evaluation of the nascent field of "newsgames" by extending its scope beyond digital platforms to encompass analog...

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Feona Attwood

Pornography, the Everyday and Material Culture

Sociology

This article challenges dominant portrayals of pornography as a harmful, abstract force disconnected from everyday life. Instead, it explores pornogra...

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The article "Pornography, the Everyday and Material Culture" presents a compelling and timely intervention into the often-polarized discourse surround...

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Polly McMichael

"Music Embodied in Life"

Social Science

The community that formed around rock music in late 1960s and 1970s Leningrad was conscious of existing in conditions of material scarcity and being c...

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Leonie Hannan

Researching in circles

History

This essay examines the value of ‘critical intimacy’, return and repetition as perspectives and practices applied in historical research. In particula...

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This essay, provocatively titled "Researching in circles," presents a compelling argument for re-evaluating historical methodology through the lenses...

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Giulia Muggeo, Ekaterina Ganskaya

We Are Spirits in the Material World

Philosophy

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The submission presents an intriguing title, "We Are Spirits in the Material World," which hints at philosophical, metaphysical, or perhaps psychologi...

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اخلاق در مطالعات پزشکی

Ethics

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The title "اخلاق در مطالعات پزشکی" (Ethics in Medical Studies) immediately signals a highly pertinent and critical area of discussion within contempor...

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