Over and Over, and Over Again: Tension, Repetition, and Catharsis in the Films of Wes Anderson

This article argues that Wes Anderson’s films repeat formal and thematic strategies in such a way that resists traditional auteurist analysis. By looking at Anderson’s recognizable style of image composition, his expansive paratext, and recurring thematic motifs, we can see a productive system of repetition operative both within and across his films. The value Anderson places on repetition opposes Peter Wollen’s structural auteurist framework, which values variation over repetition. Such opposition allows Anderson’s films to be taken up as a critique of this valuation, demonstrated through an analysis of the productive role of repetition in his work.

Genre experiment of Samuel Beckett’s Nouvelles et Textes pour rien

This article regards conceptual, structural and thematic strategies used by Beckett in the works of the short story collection Nouvelles et Textes pour rien. It indicates that the late Beckett builds upon the modernist short story with the finishing event of epiphany.

Lexical means of implementation conceptual and thematic strategies author of natural text

The article considers such categories and concepts as the author's conceptual and thematic strategy, the system of concepts, and the cumulativeness of terminological information. Verbalization of scientific concepts with the help of lexical units is considered. To implement it, special terms are used that are the main lexical and semantic means of implementing the conceptual and thematic strategy of the author of a scientific text. The article emphasizes the importance of cumulativeness of terminological information as its most important feature, which entails an increase in the information capacity of the term. The reason for the obligatory presence of the title in the scientific text, its functions, including the subtitle functions, as well as its connection with the terminological density of the scientific text are explained. Special attention is drawn to the disclosure of the topic of a scientific text through the establishment of relationships between scientific concepts of three types: initial, basic and clarifying. The article presents the results of the analysis of textual tools for the implementation of the conceptual and thematic strategy on the example of the scientific article of R. Schönrich "Die Geschichte unserer Milchstraße".

Spike Jonze Shorts Stories

Cynthia Felando demonstrates the relevance and significance of Jonze’s narrative shorts in his larger filmography. Felando argues that these short films both reflect and enrich our understanding of Jonze’s auteurist preoccupations. The short film is treated as its own genre with important specificities, including several related to storytelling, narrative, character, and genre conventions that differentiate it from the feature-length film. The chapter’s aim is to establish the viability of contextualizing Jonze’s narrative shorts as shorts, and to demonstrate the value of an analytical approach that addresses their continuities with and differences from his feature-length films. Felando considers his narrative shorts in relation to discourses in the emergent area of short form media studies. The primary analytical focus is on Jonze’s fiction shorts, although his other shorts-related titles are cited to demonstrate the persistence of several of his recurring storytelling, character, and thematic strategies.