The Empty Centre: The Legacy of Thomas Elsaesser
Film scholar Thomas Elsaesser passed away in Beijing on December 4, 2019. His death not only coincides with the end of a decade, but…
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The Sun Island, reviewed: EUROPEAN GROWTH, IDEALS, ASPIRATIONS, AND INTRICACIES
by Floris Paalman
The Year That Was
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"Flickers of Sunlight"
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The Punch
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Teach Me How To Dougie
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The Margaret Atwood Renaissance
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Naz & Maalik
by Amy Corbin
Vol. 2 № 5
Postscriptum
Postscriptum by Igor Krstic I can add only little to what Floris already outlined above in regard to Thomas Elsaesser’s scholarly concepts and wide-ranging…
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Die Sonneninsel (The Sun Island): European Growth, Ideals, Aspirations, and Intricacies
Floris Paalman takes a considered look at Thomas Elsaesser’s documentary Die Sonneninsel (The Sun Island). The construction of the European Central Bank on the site of Frankfurt’s former wholesale market – a building designed by Elsaesser’s grandfather, Martin – offers an opportunity to probe architectural and family history, in what Paalman terms “auto-media archaeology.”
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The Margaret Atwood Renaissance
In our continuing look back at the year that was 2017, Hunter Vaughan reflects on Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, and popular culture’s potential as a tool for social responsibility and engagement.
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Naz & Maalik
Concluding our look back at the year that was 2017, Amy Corbin reflects on the lessons learned from an evening at the cinema, and the audience conversation after a screening of Jay Dockendorf’s Naz & Maalik.
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Teach Me How to Dougie
In our ongoing look at the year that was 2017, Nina Cartier calls our attention to a seemingly-ephemeral moment in the wake of one of the year’s biggest political surprises, exploring the racial and gender subtext of that time when Doug Jones taught us how to Dougie.
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The Punch
When is a punch more than just a punch? In the next installment of our look back at the year that was, Nathan Holmes reflects on the “important semiotic damage” of a prominent white supremacist getting punched in the face with cameras rolling.
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“Flickers of Sunlight”: The Year That Was
Mediapolis opens the new year by looking at the one that’s just passed. Here, co-editor Brendan Kredell introduces the series and reflects on the changing tone of the journal in 2017.
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Fantasies of Neglect
In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and urban culture, reviews editor Noelle Griffis talks with Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her new book on the figure of the child in American urban film and fiction.
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Moving Image Archives as Urban Palimpsest
In this installment of our From the Archives section, Nicholas Avedisian-Cohen explores the history of the Echo Park Film Center and its relationship to the city of Los Angeles, suggesting that we can observe the process of urban change at work through the holdings of film archives.
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