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Thank you, SCMS! I really enjoyed this year’s conference. #SCMS #cinemastudies #mediastudies #swedishcinema

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Hollywood co-opted the underground. Then it co-opted indie. NonDē is the attempt to build something it can't reach. Starting with Putney Swope as the origin myth. joetripician.substack.com/p/the-underg...
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📢 CICLAHO Seminar – Paris Nanterre

📅 March 14, 9:30am
🎤 Valentine Franc — contemporary revisions of the Hollywood woman’s film
🎤 Joanne Vrignaud — Taylor Sheridan’s neo-western

📍 Amphitheatre Max Weber (Building W)

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Film Journal Issue 12 (2025): “Minority Voices and Languages in English-Speaking Cinema and Television”, edited by Mikaël Toulza.

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Dekalog IV: Honour thy father and thy mother

EPISODE IV

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Hamnet (2025) - Chloé Zhao | Love is loss

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Before Spielberg’s A.I. there was Kubrick’s 20-year struggle to adapt Brian Aldiss. Writers, rewrites, and a perfectionist’s dilemma
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The Berlinale 2026 Retrospective, “Lost in the 90s,” revisits a decade shaped by collapse, transition, and uncertainty.
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Series Spotlight 🚨Discover the Anthem Film and Culture series – an interdisciplinary collection exploring cinema in all its forms lead by Ian Conrich. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/5fr59yvf #FilmAndCulture #CinemaStudies #FilmStudies #MediaStudies #AnthemPress #AnthemSeries #seriesspotlight

One-Eyed Jacks: Brando, da Vinci, and Freud One-Eyed Jacks (1961) is as thematically uneven as its director-star Marlon Brando’s range was wide. Alternately blunt and subtle, the film’s irregular approach achieves a precarious balance in a n…

One-Eyed Jacks (1961) is as thematically uneven as its director-star Marlon Brando’s range was wide.
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Call For Papers: ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium, May 16, 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS ‘Stars and Screen’  Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium  May 16, 2026 The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media Hi...

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New Off The Page episode dated June 11, 2025. The episode is hosted by Miranda Melcher and features Alison Griffiths' book Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film. Save 20% with code NBN20 at cup.columbia.edu.

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Deadpan Futures: The Fatalistic Farce of Tell Me How I Die Right off the bat, Tell Me How I Die (2016) has two problems: its title and premise, which recall I Know Who Killed Me and Final Destination. I haven’t even watched it, and I already have bad memor…

Tell Me How I Die trades genuine suspense for formulaic fatalism, ignoring real-world precarity and diversity issues.
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Anti-Eroticism as Cinematic Strategy: The Failed Seduction in Madrid, 1987 Madrid, 1987 (2011) is deliberately anti-erotic despite the leads spending most of the runtime naked. Miguel (José Sacristán), an aging columnist, schemes to seduce Ángela (María Valverde), a beaut…

Unpacking Madrid, 1987: where naked bodies expose power, not passion; aging creatives confront emptiness; and sex is less climax than chore.
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FILM BY DESIGN isn't just about poster nostalgia—it’s a sharp, scholarly look at how movie posters function as paratexts.
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New in paperback in August, THE CELLULOID ATLANTIC offers a bold new take on postwar American & Italian cinema—revealing a transnational film culture that reshaped genres, stars, and stories.

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