Orphan Films from 2001 to 2010

For as long as there has been cinema, scholars have investigated the ways in which this powerful form of entertainment and human expression plays a role in the representation and development of society. These investigations have taken us from an understanding of the formalist features of cinema, through Freud’s and Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories, and into the study of specific populations of society through their presentation on the big screen. Recent studies have thoroughly examined “images of” racial and gender groupings, as well as issues of social class.. Thislist coincides with a paper that is part of a larger...