Tim Palmer (2011) Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema

10 Contemporary Scottish cinema

In an article in the Scottish cultural magazine, The Drouth, Mark Cousins provocatively bemoaned the lack of a vibrant film culture in Scotland. Putting Iran's cinematic achievements forward as a – perhaps surprising – example, Cousins identifies several reasons for Scotland's underdevelopment, most of which revolve around a lack of experimentation and a general absence of interest in exploring...

Smoking in contemporary American cinema.

OBJECTIVE The true prevalence of smoking among characters portrayed in the movies is unknown. This study examines this prevalence objectively. DESIGN The top 10 movies on the weekly box office charts were reviewed. Whether or not the top five characters in these movies smoked, was documented. It was determined prior to the start of the study that 300 male characters and 300 female characters ...

Rescuing “Damsels in Distress”: Chinese Women in Contemporary Italian Cinema

After the “Year of Italy in China” in 2006, Italian films with Chinese themes witnessed a boom in popularity. This article focuses on three films produced during the period: The Missing Star (2006), Two Tigers (2007), and Shun Li and the Poet (2011). The article analyzes the roles assigned to Chinese women and their western costars, reveals the common patterns with which images of Chinese “dams...

French Aesthetics: Contemporary Painting Theory

Brutal Composition

1 Introduction According to standard, pre-philosophical intuitions, there are many composite objects in the physical universe. There is, for example, my bicycle, which is composed of various parts-wheels, handlebars, molecules, atoms, etc. Recently, a growing body of philosophical literature has concerned itself with questions about the nature of composition. 1 The main question that has been r...