In 2008, I saw Jia Zhangke’s film Still Life, and it changed my life. I had never seen a film that had affected me so intensely and knew that, after that moment, I needed to research this director and his films further. What impacted me the most about Jia’s films were their emotional and affective qualities, and how they evoked feelings that lingered long after the films had ended.
Category: World History
An account of how bureaucratic procedures created the space for political conflict and slander in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bulgaria and what…
Tell us a bit about The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945 My book is about the Pilgrims Society, which…
Looking Back at the Russian Revolution 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which occurred in March and…
My new book, Viking Law and Order, paints a rather different picture of Viking Age society from the one we…
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…
In the early years of China’s Civil War, the Communist army and leadership sought refuge from Nationalist troops in the…
My research treats music as a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the First World War was a crucial event…
By Ruth Mostern Here, Ruth Mostern gives some background to her article, “Don’t Just Build It, They Probably Won’t Come:…
By Anna Clark It is widely assumed that the concept of human rights only emerged after 1945. However, I have…