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The Deuce observes the transformations of the notorious 42nd street of New York across the 1970s and 1980s. Aim of this paper is demonstrating how the series enacts this urban mutation through the integration of the affective and experiential texture of the story-world into a unitary, yet multifaceted and transformative, ecology. The analysis will be carried out by drawing from Mikhail Bakthin's notions of chronotope and dialogism, demonstrating the pragmatic power of artistic experience in enacting space-time dimensions characterised by an intrinsic emotional and conceptual polyphony. These concepts will be examined within the framework of an enactivist and film-philosophical understanding of cinematic experience addressing the ethical power entangled in viewers' aesthetic engagement. I will resort to these ideas to discuss how The Deuce offers a complex and critical enactment of the socio-economic dynamics of the Neoliberal Turn, metonymically embedded, in its conflicts and contradictions, within the series' mutating environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the film "Inside Llewyn Davis," starring Oscar Isaac. Particular focus is given to the way the film stages melancholic perception of the world and the affective components of the experience in this motion picture, such as camera movements, special effects, and soundtrack. The author discusses the negative emotions that the film generate and the link of the melancholic sensations with the emotional world of Isaacs.