Roundtable Discussion on “Cinema and Social Conflicts”
To celebrate the publication of our sixth volume, on “Cinema and Social Conflicts,” members of […]
Cinema
Brazil in Social (Un)Rest: Cinema in a Provisional State
On May 12, 2016, Dilma Roussef was temporarily removed from the Brazilian presidency as her […]
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 […]
The Neglected Spaces of Feminism and Queer in Contemporary Italian Political Cinema
At the end of 2018, one of Italy’s best-known directors, Nanni Moretti, released a documentary […]
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 […]
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
In her landmark study of gender, Judith Butler suggests that gender is ‘performed, manufactured through a sustained set of acts, posited through the gendered stylization of the body’.