摘要
World Cinema Issue 3(Bimonthly),2024 Film as Painting:Nollywood's Philosophical Understanding of the Photographic Medium This issue focuses on national films,with three articles analyzing one or more representative flms from three countries.Film as Painting:Nollywood's Philosophical Understanding of the Photographic Medium explores thephilosophical roots of photography in Nigerian film;Stalkers in Istanbul:Silence,Urban Space,and Damaged Masculinity in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's UZAK shows the decaying male image on Turkish film screens as opposed to the tough guy;The Broken Frame:The Non-Creative WaysofAbbasKiarostami in 24 FRAME Sprovides a frame-by-frame analysis of the lranian director's use of off-screen space to activate the imagination of the audience.