Psychoanalysis and the cinema were born at the end of the nineteenth century. They share a common historical, social, and cultural background shaped by the forces of modernity. Theorists commonly explore how psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on the importance of desire in the life of the individual, has influenced the cinema. But the reverse is also true-the cinema may well have influenced psyc...

Our paper explores the affinity between location and the registers of memory through the material specificities of moving image and the place of cinema using two recent moving image artworks, Reach and Maelstrom: The Return (2014), as case studies. Reach is an ‘environmental’ direct animation that enables a symbiotic conversation between artist and place through film’s agency as a sensitive and...

Accelerated Culture: Exploring Time and Space in Cinema, Television and New Media in the Digital Age by Thomas J. Connelly This dissertation seeks to understand the impact of speed on the interrelation and the overlapping of the production and consumption of cinematic and televisual texts. It explores the immediacy of digital media and new economic processes, and how they are informing structur...

Translated into English for the first time by Madeline Whittle, Emmanuel Siety’s article draws extensively on Jean Louis Schefer’s The Ordinary Man of Cinema to explore connection between films we encounter in childhood and a lifelong relationship with cinema. Siety asks what is role film education moving-image saturated contemporary era preserving something special bond formed our encounters c...

In contemporary discussions of film and artistic research, the historical undercurrent as an intense research development activity, does not seem to be widely discussed. contrast, history media archaeology has since long re-evaluated status early moving image technologies, which do any longer denote pre-cinematic curiosities that simply predate institution cinema its narrative forms but is rath...

The article explores the roles of historical gardens in Western cinema. A garden can make a location (Versailles), mimic another (Vaux-le-Vicomte as Chantilly Vatel), embody national way life (gardens National Trust 1995 TV series Pride and Prejudice), or be an abstract, to greater lesser extent, setting. In Atonement, becomes symbol, films about space (Silent Running) inner world metaphysics (...