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Film Studies
Understanding Bollywood
Ulka Anjaria discusses Hindi cinema, a genre that has a massive fan base but is often misunderstood by…
Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory
Clara Bradbury-Rance works in the Department of Liberal Arts at King’s College London, where she specialises in queer…
Dressing for the future: Speculative fashion in 1930s Hollywood
The interwar years saw extensive speculation on the future in all fields of design. Hollywood was remarkably reticent…
Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods
The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century…
For An Open Campus
Shot over the months of October and November 2014 on the campus of Aichi University of the Arts…
New Independent Indian Cinema: Disciplinary Evolution and Cinematic Revolution
The rise of new independent Indian cinema is a widely acknowledged yet unfathomably understudied phenomenon. Ashvin Devasundaram discusses…
Ajami and the Paradox of Fiction
Filmmakers often use the element of surprise to direct actors for certain scenes to get authentic emotional responses.…
The Films of John Cassavetes
Raymond Carney, Boston University, is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on independent film and American…
William Raban on Available Light
William Raban is one of the foremost British artists and experimental filmmakers of the last forty years, known…
Playing funny games in the last house on the left
Michael Fiddler discusses Criminology, the ‘reservoirs of dogma’ and ‘symbolic lagoons of social fears’ to locate the ‘home…
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