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When you think of cinema, you immediately think of feature films projected on the big screen. However, the roots of cinema lie in a...

If there is one format that uses it, it is the Duanju: a rhythmic milestone and tool for attention, the cliffhanger serves the narrative arc as much as the economic model of duanju, provided it is thought out and used with finesse. Definition and legacy of the soap opera cliffhanger Every viewer has already experienced the "cliffhanger" effect while watching a series: that moment when the story, instead of giving us more to see, suspends. The Anglo-Saxon etymology puts it sim

In the article “When AI Invades the Seventh Art”, published in Le Point on August 10, 2025, by Philippe Guedj, generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, DALL·E, Sora, or Veo 3 can now produce special effects sequences at a cost up to ten times lower than traditional methods. Whereas months of work by graphic designers, digital stunt performers, and technicians were once required, today only a few days are needed to create scenes that were previously reserved f

In an interview with Philippe Guedj of the French magazine Le Point on August 7, 2025, Tom Rothman, president of the Sony Pictures Motion...

Over the past decade, the way we watch series has changed profoundly. With the rise of streaming, binge-watching, watching episodes one after the other without a break, has become almost the norm. Netflix, almost in spite of itself, has imposed this model by making all seasons available as soon as they are released. Added to this is another phenomenon, already noted in 2017 by France Inter : "speed-watching." More and more viewers are speeding up their series, watching them a

From the Greek amphitheater to vertical screens, the play of human passions always finds its stage! In ancient times, Aristotle described...

In China, and gradually in many Western countries, duanju attract millions of spectators, the majority of whom are... female spectators....

Cinematographic framing, formats and innovations. The connection is easy with our previous reflection on the history of painting : we mentioned the "frame," first fixed and then detachable, as the outer limit of the painting. With cinema, the "frame" became in some way the container of the filmed image. But in our time, this notion has taken on a strong technical dimension because it is inevitably linked to the idea of format: in the same width of film, it has been possible

The evolution of framing and formats in painting. Since the art of caves, humans have had to delimit what they wanted to reproduce. But each figure from this distant era seems to us today to be placed without order among others. With the birth of agriculture and therefore the organization of cultivated fields, the drawn or sculpted surface began to respect a certain geometry. As for painting, the first ancient traces that remain are frescoes applied to walls or tombs, sometim

Before becoming a global phenomenon, Duanju was born in China at the crossroads of web literature, short programs, social networks and...

A contributor to several journals and an observer of cultural changes, Jean-Marie Sanjorge appropriates the duanju format to offer a broader interpretation. For him, it is fully in line with the acceleration that shapes our modernity. "A lot has been said about the phenomenon of acceleration that has characterized Western modernity over the last two centuries. It's not my place here to judge the advantages and disadvantages of this situation, but, in accordance with the title