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Children, Charity and Magazines
Read more: Children, Charity and MagazinesA Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
Excerpt from ‘Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis’
by Mieke Bal My new book explores and analyses making “thought-images” by means of “image-thinking”. In my experience in making films and video installations I learned that making images and thinking through what the process involved and yielded, as a…
Documentary Landscapes of the Holocaust
Journey to Poland: Documentary Landscapes of the Holocaust is about the journeys undertaken by survivors, members of the postgeneration, and filmmakers to the places where the Jews lived before the war and to the places where they were murdered. This…
Work, but At Your Own Risk … We Warned You
By Audrey Evrard Despite of the loud chorus of political and business leaders extolling the virtues of hard work, a counter-narrative calling into question the centrality of work has gained momentum in France since the early 2000s. My recent article…
A Tale of Two Kens: Drama, documentary and the subversion of the status quo
By John Hill My interest in writing about the work of the film and television director Ken Russell partly derived from writing about another Ken in my book, Ken Loach: the Politics of Film and Television (2014). The two Kens…