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Being a Greek captive in the medieval Mediterranean
Read more: Being a Greek captive in the medieval MediterraneanI would like to introduce you to two people. The first of these was called Iohannes Glafchyrno. Glafchyrno appears in the historical record...
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A Q&A with Joe Street on Silicon Valley Cinema
by Joe Street Tell us a bit about your book Silicon Valley Cinema is about a sequence of films that were mostly released in the 2010s that focused on the impact of Silicon Valley corporations on our lives. Some of…
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Adrian Brunel: The Systematic Jackdaw
by Josephine Botting Approaching an archival collection the scale of Adrian Brunel’s is a daunting prospect. Every box contains a hotchpotch of items, which at first defy coherence: snapshots, letters, diaries, cuttings, contracts, scribblings on scraps of paper, legal summons…
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Refocus: The Films Of Roberta Findlay – A Q&A With The Editors
by Whitney Strub and Peter Alilunas Tell us a bit about your book Alilunas and Strub: ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay is the first collection of scholarly essays on the notorious, groundbreaking, iconoclastic, controversial, talented, subversive, and often funny…
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5 lesser-known examples of late-colonial French cinema
by Mani King Sharpe In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a spate of ‘late-colonial’ French films were made that thematised the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), as it was occurring. Some of these films, for example, Muriel (Resnais, 1963),…
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The Place of Breath in Cinema: 10 Years On
Dr Davina Quinlivan The interdisciplinarian is best equipped to walk inside (and alongside) the lands of breathlessness, translating across border-lands wherever possible as she moves. This is because an inter-disciplinarian is identifiable by her movement, the willingness to depart from her discipline, to…
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He Who Got Slapped
by Alice Maurice It has been a long time since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars. It’s been two whole months – by today’s standards, an eternity. Even after a week, it had been thoroughly washed and rinsed…
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Mary Queen of Scots in British Cinema & Society
by John White In the first of a short series of extracts from British Cinema and a Divided Nation (EUP, 2022), John White looks at Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke, 2018). In this film we are presented with a…
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Traces of the Aftermath: Uses of the Perpetrator Archive in Mexican Film
by Niamh Thornton Niamh Thornton introduces the case studies she uses in her chapter from Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures. Finding a space to discuss memory and trauma In order to talk…
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Buddhism and Cinematic Technicity-Consciousness
By Victor Fan ‘Cinematic Imaging and Imagining through the Lens of Buddhism’ (from the latest issue of Paragraph) is one of my ‘test drives’ for a longer and more substantial project that seeks to reconfigure film and media philosophy by…