CfP: Music and Social Conflicts
Introduction Music has often been described as a “soundtrack” for social conflicts. However, as recent […]
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Roundtable Discussion on “Cinema and Social Conflicts”
To celebrate the publication of our sixth volume, on “Cinema and Social Conflicts,” members of […]
Silent Suffragists: Activism, Popular Cinema, and Women’s Rights in 1910s America
Silent as it was, cinema in the early twentieth century spoke loudly on behalf of […]
Counter-Information and Counter-Power: The Italian 60’s Newsreels
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to an alternative cinematographic pathway, one […]
Urban Stories of Conflicts: The Filmic Activity of Squatters in the “Productive City” of Rotterdam
But as each germ strives to develop, there necessarily arises a struggle for existence which […]
Cahiers du cinéma’s Maoist Turn and the Front Culturel Révolutionnaire
The French film journal Cahiers du cinéma has, since its founding by André Bazin in […]
The Post-Cinematic Gesture: Redhack
Over the last thirty years, once staunchly film history scholars such as Thomas Elsaesser, Jane […]
Lang’s Fury Continues to Resonate in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Eric Garner uttered “I can’t breathe” eleven times on July 17, 2014 when he died […]
Global Migration, Local Charity: African Refugees, Food Provisioning, and the Declining Israeli Middle Class
Since the mid-2000s, African asylum seekers and refugees have entered Israel in an attempt to […]
“O Mother Race”: Race, Italian Colonialism and the Fight to Keep Ethiopia Independent
In 1896, after the Ethiopian victory over the Italian army at Adowa, the poet Paul […]