Reflections on Bollywood’s Golden Age

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This is a guest post by Jasmine Sofia Jannif, author of Sentimental Songs, Melodrama and Filmic Narrative in Bollywood’s Golden Age (1951–1963) This book came to me late in life, but its origins go back to colonial heydays in the streets of Suva, Fiji, where with my father I watched...

The gothic western on screen

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This is an author interview by Keith McDonald and Wayne Johnson, authors of The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic and the Western Film Q1. What was the importance of writing this book now? The Western has always been cyclical in terms of its popularity and the ways that...

Farewell Oppenheimer

29 January 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Peder Anker, author of For The Love of Bombs It is often said that history is written by its winners, and the history of the atomic bomb is no exception. From 6 August 1945 – the day the United States dropped the bomb on...

Visualising climate change effects on urban and rural habitat in African cinema and urbanism

15 December 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Marie-Paule Macdonald, author of African Cinema and Urbanism. The African continent, estimated to contribute less than 3% to global emissions while experiencing fast-increasing population growth and corresponding urbanisation, faces the effects of climate change on human habitats. Its youthful population holds the potential to...

Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

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1 . What inspired you to write this book at this point in your research, which has covered a lot of ground from Thomas More and William Shakespeare to Jane Campion and the film adaptations of Māori writers such as Witi Ihimaera––passing through French cinema? Most of my published work...

Tag: Film Studies

Reflections on Bollywood’s Golden Age

The gothic western on screen

Farewell Oppenheimer

Visualising climate change effects on urban and rural habitat in African cinema and urbanism

Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

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