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Filmed Cities: Eden or Purgatory?
An analysis of how cinematic 'space' can include geographical, physical properties of city landscapes, with a special emphasis on how Los Angeles informs the meaning of Fight Club and Collateral, and Athens in Delivery.
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Time Spent in Zama
An essay on Hakan Sahin's first two features, Mirror and Snow, studies on the psychological effects of living in geographical isolation.
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Fantastic Films, Fantastic Bodies: Speculations on the Fantastic and Disability Representation
An analysis of the representation of the disabled across the broad spectrum of fantastic cinemas.
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Women of Iranian Popular Cinema: Projection of Progress
An in-depth analysis of the representation of women in contemporary Iranian cinema.
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A Study of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s “Time of Love’s” intertextual
This essay examines Mohsen Makhmalbaf's intertextual use of Rumi's famous poem The Three Fish in his early third phase film, Time of Love.
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Tales of Resilience: the Iranian Journey and The Ladies Room
A somewhat irreverent, insightful analysis of two recent female-centered Iranian documentaries, The Ladies Room and Iranian Journey.
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Notes on Why We Make Movies and Dark Designs and Visual Culture
A review essay of two books celebrating the varied contributions of African-American 'imagemakers' in its broadest sense (filmmakers, actors, writers, artists).
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The Great Artist, the Little Fellow: Reading Charlie Chaplin and James Agee
A review essay on three recent books, two focusing on Charlie Chaplin and one on the American critic/playright James Agee.
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Richard A. Gilmore’s Doing Philosophy at the Movies
A book review of Richard A. Gilmore’s Doing Philosophy at the Movies, which looks at, The Searchers, The Usual Suspects, Vertigo, Fargo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Terminator, 12 Monkeys, Trainspotting, Night of the Living Dead, and The Matrix.
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Evilenko
In-depth review of uncompromising fact-based serial killer film, Evilenko.
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Ideology and Social Commentary in Le Couperet
Costa–Gavras returns with an astute black comedy on the corporate mindset.
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Eisenstein, Synaesthesia, Symbolism and the Occult Traditions
An analysis of the great montagists Sergei Eisenstein’s interest in synaesthesia and occult traditions.
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ICONOGRAPHY (Part 1): Ideas, Images, and Individuals in Film, Books, and Life;
An idiosyncratic look at contemporary thought filtered through popular art, literature, film, and philosophy.
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Cuban Classics, Part 2
Part 2 of Peter Rist's look at classic Cuban cinema. A formal and cultural analysis of the short and medium length films of Cuban director Humberto Solas.
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Fateless
A review of first-time director Lajos Koltai's powerful Holocaust film.
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