By James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim and Stephen Mamber This year marks a significant turning point for a number of…
Tag: Film Studies
Cultural History
Stick ‘em Up: How a South African Horror Film Prophesised Apartheid’s Road to Nowhere
By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s…
In 1998, the celebrated lesbian film scholar B. Ruby Rich wrote: ‘I don’t want to make the mistake of falling…
Twenty years ago the Dardenne brothers’ film Rosetta (1999) thrust Belgian cinema into the international spotlight by winning the top…
Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen and Meryl Shriver-Rice caught-up with Academy Award®, Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award winning writer and…
Our book examines how and where women made and showed their films; and what those experiences reveal about the women…
In his new book, The Birth of the American Horror Film, Gary D. Rhodes delves into the archives to focus…
Journey to Poland: Documentary Landscapes of the Holocaust is about the journeys undertaken by survivors, members of the postgeneration, and…
In the summer of 2015, Kelly Reichardt agreed to discuss career and production details with E. Dawn Hall and Allison…
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.