Radio On and British Art Cinema

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ On Cinematic Frames: regarding the publication of De-Framing: Essays on Painting and Cinema, Mehrdad Pur Alam

W10: Art and Anxiety

The objective of this session is to identify that how films, movies and TV series can affect on anxiety level of the audiences. In this session, actors, directors, and psychologists are going to discuss about the role of TV series, films and their contents on decreasing or increasing of anxiety and the importance of “identification” between audiences and actors or actresses.

psychoanalytical interview of cinema's function basis on the concept of gaze in Jacques Lacan's thought

Abstract  Theory of psychoanalysis after Lacan's theory grew up in different aspects of art and thought such as mirror stage, feminist ideology, the process of subject birth, etc. Theoreticians of the film after Lacan present a new understanding of cinema’s function uses from his psychoanalysis terms, for instance, mirror stage, the concept of desire...

Ontology of Time in Cinema A Deleuzian reading of Still Life and Prince Ehtejab With an emphasis on the concept of Time-Image

Gilles Deleuze, the notable post-modern philosopher, in his two-volume cinematic books Cinema 1: movement-image (1986) and Cinema 2: time-image (1989) recognizes two major periods in history of cinema (classic and modern) in terms of representing movement and time respectively. Referring to various films of modern cinema especially post-war European cinema like Italian neorealism, Cinema2 speak...

Deconstruction of Language and Expression in Kiarostami’s Cinema A case study on “Shirin”

This article aims to study the significant language and expression methods of Abbas Kiarostami’s cinema by analyzing the context and structure of a movie titled Shirin, focusing on its narrative and internal elements in a deconstructive manner .The movie is a masterpiece in which life’s passion is intermingled with death, nothingness, and despair. Analyzing the movie Shirin is an attempt to red...