The Italian film I dannati della terra ( Damned of the Earth ) (Orsini and Filippi is a prominent example connection between European cinema intervention Third World struggles 1960s. Set as ‘film within film’, movie tells story leftist filmmaker, Fausto Morelli, who faces challenge finishing about liberation sub-Saharan Africa by building on documentary footage that was bequeathed to him his st...

The connection between French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Italian political theorist Antonio Negri has drawn attention in academic publications over the last decade. For both thinkers, the philosophical concept of immanence is central to how both respectively conceptualize the world. However, in order to consider their work with regard to a metaphysical grounding, one may benefit from turnin...

As this paper argues, chance is the key defining aspect of film, distinguishing it from other forms art and communication. This because film has ability to capture a direct, mechanical imprint unpredictable movement reality as series equidistant static images. Through enhanced visibility (such close-up or slow-motion) re-playability state, can reveal contingent nuances movement. Therefore, be s...

Among barber shop and beauty salon philosophers and front stoop film critics, industry hyphenates Will Smith and Tyler Perry are topics of discussions ranging from the quality of their product to their rumored homosexuality. Smith, a rapper-actor-producer is now regarded as “the most powerful actor in Hollywood” with a “worldwide career box office of $4.4 billion” and salary of $25 million a pi...