scholarly journals Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Castaldo Lunden
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Costume Design ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Heterogeneous Nature ◽  
Film And Media Studies

This special issue belongs to a series of activities under the umbrella denomination “Studying and Exploring the Intersections of Fashion, Film, and Media Studies,” created in 2014 by film scholar Anne Bachmann and I. Our goal was to promote an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of fashion, film, and media. This venture was launched with two activities at the 2015 edition of the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, in Montreal. The first activity consisted of a panel featuring the on-going projects of four Ph.D. students working with these combined fields.[1]  The second activity consisted of a workshop, in which presentations opened to discussions addressing how the use of archival material and film fan magazines, combined with film studies’ methodological approach to history, could benefit fashion research.[2] This workshop expanded into a Symposium at Stockholm University featuring established scholars who pioneered research in these fields of studies combined. This special issue of Networking Knowledge seeks to include early career researchers in such conversation, broadening the network of scholars and the combined field of expertise. Since its inception, a historical approach has been encouraged by the founders of this project. Yet, the semiotic roots used for textual analysis of costume design shall not be overlooked. In this sense, this special issue intends to present a panorama of the heterogeneous nature of studies in these interconnected fields.   [1] The panel was titled “Industry Crossovers: Key Women in Fashion, Film, and Media,” with Michelle Tolini Finamore as respondent, SCMS Conference, Montreal. [2] The workshop featured presentations by Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Jenny Romero, and Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén. Because Fashion Matters: Studying the Intersections of Fashion, Film, and Media, SCMS Conference, Montreal, 29th March 2015.

Between art and application: Special issue on emoji epistemology

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Abidin ◽  
Joel Gn
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Cultural Implications

This special issue, curated by Joel Gn and Crystal Abidin, provides an investigation of the uses and impacts of emoji within the domains of culture, race, language, and art and commerce. Considering the broader socio-cultural implications of emoji and the various ways that emoji negotiate and mediate the tenuous boundary between art and application, the eight papers draw from disciplines including media studies and communications, sociology and digital anthropology, literary studies and art history, and philosophy, and are authored by (mostly) Early Career Researchers.

Urban Mediation and Mobility in Istanbul

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-136
Author(s):  
Dorit Müller
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
European Network ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Ample Opportunity ◽  
Extensive Analysis ◽  
Broad Scope ◽  
Film And Media Studies

The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) held its fifth annual conference “Urban Mediations” from June 24 to 27, 2010 in the European Capital of Culture 2010, Istanbul. A wide variety of scholars and researchers in the field of cinema, film, and media studies, but also archivists or film and media professionals were invited. The broad scope theme of “urban mediations” provided ample opportunity for extensive analysis and discussion of media and urbanity theories by the attendees. In more than 80 panels, with four talks each, various questions could be discussed. For example: How are city spaces represented and created in different media? What urban practices and aesthetics develop when using “media”? To what extent do new media forms influence future urban developments or make them possible in the first place? How does media shape city-human interaction?

Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-335
Author(s):  
Viviane Saglier
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Arab Americans ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Middle East Studies

What can film studies bring to the study of Arab culture, politics, and history? The past ten years have seen an increase in historical, theoretical, and methodological exchanges between Middle East studies and film and media studies. The sub-field of “Arab film studies” (Ginsberg and Lippard 2020, viii) has emerged as one possible intersection of these two fields of inquiry. This is illustrated by two recent book series, the Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East series at Peter Lang Publishing (edited by Terri Ginsberg and Chris Lippard) and the Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema series at Palgrave Macmillan (edited by Nezar Andary and Samirah Alkassim). Waleed Mahdi's Arab Americans in Film (2020) and Peter Limbrick's Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi (2020) consolidate these exchanges across ethnic studies, area studies, political sciences, (art) history, and film and media studies. While Mahdi primarily positions himself from within ethnic studies and Limbrick is first a film scholar, both have published in reference journals in film studies, Middle East studies, and cultural studies.

scholarly journals 2. Simondon as a Neo-Scholastic?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Johan Fredrikzon
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Creative Force ◽  
Information Image

Johan Fredrikzon spent one and a half years as a visiting research assistant at the Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University 2018/2019. Some months before he arrived, a two-day workshop on Simondon was held by the Yale-Düsseldorf Working Group on Philosophy and Media, titled Modes of Technical Objects, with scholars from the US and Germany. Fredrikzon decided to engage a few of the workshop participants for this special issue of Sensorium, with the purpose to discuss perspectives on Simondon as a theoretical instrument for thinking technology, how the French philosopher matters in their work, and why there seems to be a revival in the interest in the writing of Simondon these days. On behalf of the Sensorium journal, the interviewer would like to thank the three interviewees for their generous participation. About John Durham Peters: John Durham Peters is María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. Peters has been a creative force in media studies for many years and his thinking continues to influence academic environments throughout the world. His book The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (Chicago, 2015) was an attempt to rethink the concept of media by including weather, dolphins and fire to the infrastructural landscape of digital communications and climate change. His new book, in cooperation with Kenneth Cmiel, is called Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History (Chicago, 2020).

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Plantinga
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Cultural Ecology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Ethical Evaluation ◽  
Human Emotion ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Film And Media Studies

The introduction to Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement traces the main argument of the book and previews the book’s structure. The argument is that stories on screens—films, television, the Internet, and so on—contribute to the cultural ecology of a place and time and are thus subject to ethical evaluation. Screen stories are rhetorically powerful in large part because they engage and elicit human emotion. Academic film studies respond to this power by embracing “estrangement theory,” which largely rejects mainstream screen stories, immersion, and emotion. The personal story told in the Introduction relates the author’s experiences with screen stories and how he came to believe that ethics as practiced by academic film and media studies, at least in the form of estrangement theory, is unable to usefully address the experiences of most contemporary viewers and thus introduces the reader instead to an ethics of engagement.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. iii-v
Author(s):  
Donna Cross
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Early Career Researchers

This special issue has as its focus the promotion of mental health and wellbeing in children and adolescents. It is also noteworthy that all lead authors are early career researchers.

Compte Rendu de Anna Caterina Dalmasso, Le Corps, c’est l’écran. La philosophie du visuel de Merleau-Ponty

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 379-388
Author(s):  
Charles Bobant ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Visual Studies ◽  
Compte Rendu ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Unpublished Manuscripts

Dans son livre Le corps, c’est l’écran. La philosophie du visuel de Merleau-Ponty, Anna Caterina Dalmasso met en évidence la présence de la pensée merleau-pontienne dans les réflexions contemporaines relevant des visual studies, de la médiologie et des études cinématographiques. Les analyses menées révèlent un Merleau-Ponty à l’origine d’un certain nombre de « tournants » majeurs dans le questionnement, touchant notamment à la conception de l’image (de l’image copie d’un modèle à l’image qui nous regarde) et du médium (du modèle de la transparence à celui de l’opacité). Enfin, l’une des ambitions – et l’une des réussites – de l’ouvrage est de restituer l’apport significatif de Merleau-Ponty pour les film studies. A.C. Dalmasso jette des lumières nouvelles sur une interrogation en constante évolution, en s’appuyant à la fois sur les textes bien connus (« Le cinéma et la nouvelle psychologie », L’OEil et l’esprit) et les « inédits » (Le Monde sensible et le monde de l’expression).In her book Le corps, c’est l’écran. La philosophie du visuel de Merleau-Ponty, Anna Caterina Dalmasso brings to light the presence of Merleau-pontian thought in contemporary reflections relevant to visual studies, as well as film and media studies. The analyses she carried out reveal a Merleau-Ponty at the origin of a certain number of major “turns” in the inquiry, touching notably on the conception of the image (from the image as copy of a model to the image that looks at us) and of the medium (from the model of transparency to that of opacity). Besides, one of the ambitions – and one of the successes – of the work is to demonstrate the significant contribution of Merleau-Ponty for film studies. A.C. Dalmasso throws new light on an interrogation in constant evolution, stressing both well-known texts (“Film and the New Psychology,” Eye and Mind) and unpublished manuscripts (Le monde sensible et le monde de l’expression).Nel volume Le corps, c’est l’écran. La philosophie du visuel de Merleau-Ponty, Anna Caterina Dalmasso mette in evidenza la presenza del pensiero merleau-pontyano nelle riflessioni contemporanee dei visual studies, della teoria del cinema e dei media. Le analisi che vi sono condotte rivelano un Merleau-Ponty all’origine di alcune importanti “svolte”, che riguardano in particolare la concezione dell’immagine (dall’immagine come copia di un modello ad un’immagine che ci guarda) e del medium (da un modello basato sulla trasparenza a uno che fa perno sulla sua opacità). Inoltre, una delle ambizioni – e uno degli aspetti più originali – dell’opera è quella di restituire il significativo apporto di Merleau-Ponty per l’ambito dei film studies. A.C. Dalmasso fa luce in modo innovativo su un tema di ricerca in costante evoluzione, appoggiandosi ad un tempo su scritti più noti (come “Il cinema e la nuova psicologia” e L’occhio e lo spirito) e su alcuni testi “inediti” (in particolare Le monde sensible et le monde de l’expression).

scholarly journals The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Grant
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Technology Grant ◽  
Audio Video

This chapter carefully considers the practice of the audio-video essayist, reflecting on the topics of subjectivity, textuality, and technology. Grant is a film scholar who, in the last ten years, has begun to produce, write about, and publish creative-critical digital-video essays on film and media studies subjects, essays that use footage from the films studied, as well as other moving image/sounds from existing media. Her chapter examines the critical and theoretical threads that surround the audiovisual essay as it belongs to the tradition of the essay film and as it belongs to the broader realm of creative practice. She also thinks through some of the spectatorial implications of her online practice as research.

scholarly journals Qualitative doctoral research in educational settings: Reflecting on meaningful encounters

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Myria Pieridou ◽  
Maria Kambouri-Danos
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Analytical Skills

<p>In qualitative doctoral research the methodological approach, and <br /> the research design are extremely important when ensuring the rigorousness of the work. This is particularly significant for all researchers, and even more for doctoral students who are still developing their research and analytical skills. This paper aims to support doctoral students in their research journey by highlighting some of the tensions involved in conducting qualitative research by unpicking the experiences of two doctoral students to learn from the concerns, questions and reflections on the use of qualitative methodology in their doctoral research projects. The findings reveal challenges and insights with regards to reflection, educational research and the developing identity of being a researcher. The paper discusses these reflections to support and guide doctoral students as early career researchers when planning and conducting qualitative research in educational settings. </p>

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