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Author: Helena Heald
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In the final part of this five-part series on African American film, Geetha Ramanathan discusses 2017 hit “Get Out” alongside…
In part four of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan uses two examples to consider how African American films of the…
In part three of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan explores the use of American mythology and folklore in two African…
In part two of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan considers the use of the “ancestral archive” to discuss gender models…
In this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan, author of Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), explores over…
To celebrate the release of Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies, editors Simon…
The past years have seen many commemorations in the Israeli–Arab conflict: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration (2017), seventy years…
A staple in cinema for decades, the vampire movie is a genre that is constantly being rejuvenated with fresh blood….