ISSN 1712-9559
Keyword : Political
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A sprawling survey of recent (mainly) American films that have touched writer Daniel Garrett, who opens the survey with a prologue on the art of film criticism that underscores the importance of celebrating the beauty of film.
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An analysis of Third Cinema theory that extends the classic tenets of 1960s-1970s political cinema to incorporate the European Diaspora.
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An in-depth humanist analysis of Haaz Sleiman's The Visitor.
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Author Krystle Doromal compares the on/off-screen personas of two Asian American actresses from different eras, Ann May Wong and Lucy Lui. Doromal argues that, while being typecast, these two actresses have also challenged the sterotypical images of Asian Americans in their own different ways.
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A book review essay of Mark Reid's expansive book on African American cinema, which dates back to the silent films of pioneering director/producer Oscar Micheaux to contemporary American cinema.
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An historical contextualisation of Santiago Álvarez' bold political/experimental short films.
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An introspective analysis of what happens when aesthetization meets the politically volatile subject of global capitalism.
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An interview with young filmmaker Julia Loktev on her controversial film about a female suicide bomber, Day Night Day Night.
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A report on the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, with a concentration on the International Competition.
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A broad survey of the trends and patterns of the American horror film since 1991, the year Silence of the Lambs won several Academy Awards.
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An analysis of the representation of the disabled across the broad spectrum of fantastic cinemas.
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A report on the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, concentrating on the feature fiction films.
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A philosophical analysis of Catherine Breillat's controversial Anatomy of Hell.
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An in-depth analysis of the representation of women in contemporary Iranian cinema.
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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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A somewhat irreverent, insightful analysis of two recent female-centered Iranian documentaries, The Ladies Room and Iranian Journey.
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An analysis of two recent documentaries exposing the social injustices of archaic law and custom in Israel and Central India: Sentenced to Marriage and Highway Courtesans.
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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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Costa–Gavras returns with an astute black comedy on the corporate mindset.
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A panoply of in-depth reviews focusing on the importance of character as a way of reading film texts for social and philosophical meaning.
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