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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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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Joseph Clement at Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment
Our coverage of “Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment” continues with a presentation from filmmaker and architect Joseph Clement.
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Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part Two: Miranda Pennell)
In the second part of our Visualizing Spatial Injustice Q&A, the symposium organizers spoke to the London-based artist and filmmaker Miranda Pennell about her work…
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Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A (Part One: Alberto Toscano)
The organizers of Kent’s recent Visualising Spatial Injustice conference reflect on it and interview one of their keynote speakers, Alberto Toscano.
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Jane Corkin at Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment
Our coverage of “Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment” continues with a presentation from Jane Corkin, founder of the Corkin Gallery.
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“It Takes a Village…”: The Use of Childhood to Negotiate Questions of Migration and European Identity in Le Havre
Anushka Robinson explores Aki Kaurismäki’s take on migration, Fortress Europe, northern France, and community ties through theories of childhood and affiliation.
An Archive of Shirkers (2018): Collaging Different Theories of the Archive
David Chan brings several theories of the archive to bear on the recent documentary Shirkers, asking how the film’s openness as a text and mission of collecting a lost film relate to the specificities of place and embodied difference that gave rise to the project.
Worlds Under Watch: The Moving Surveillance-Image and Its Institutions
Cedric Bobro traces the linguistics roots of surveillance and the fantasy of the omnipotent view through ghosts and AI to the modern surveillance apparatus.
Getting Lost in “Wondaland”: Political Worldbuilding and Timeless Affects in Janelle Monáe’s Metropolis
Mathilde Fauteux explores the political spaces of Janelle Monáe’s work, concentrating on both the diegetic spaces that make up her recent projects and the transmedia spaces those projects occupy and create.
Introduction: SCMS-U & Student Voices
In her introduction to this installment of Student Voices, Amy Corbin contextualizes the essays in the work of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’s undergraduate conference, which she co-organized. She also provides a platform for Jeffery Lin, an invited contributor, to discuss the ongoing protests on Hong Kong and his reasons for withdrawing his essay.
Directing the Consumer’s Attention through Public Screens: A Critical View
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the…
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Approaching Integrative Learning: Assignments Linking ‘Narratives of Travel’ Courses
Sharon Albert & Amy Corbin end this issue with a discussion of the integrative assignments they designed around immigration and migration for their linked courses.
The Lingering Presence of Richard Florida in Gothenburg’s Future Vision
In the final post of the Roundtable, Helena Holgersson and Erik Florin Persson address the role of Richard Florida’s ideas in Gothenburg’s self-presentation and self-conception.
The Florida Project, Labor Strife, and Life on the Margins of Disney World
Alex Kupfer reflects on Disney’s history of expropriation in connection to economic inequality and labor disputes as the Roundtable wraps up.