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  Preposterous cinema, or The Death of a Nation 

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  WilliamBrown University of British Columbia

  February 24, 2025

  as himself on at least two occasions. Shot in black and white, the film is, according to its ... cutting to digital making-of images as Louis Armstrong’s ‘St. James Infirmary Blues’ (1929) begins to ... least as Donald J. Trump would have us fear), but as darkness. Preposterously, then, the death of ...
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  The Empty Panopticon: Surveillance and Parrhesia in Iranian Cinema

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  Parsa Naji Georgia State University

  February 19, 2025

  than an illusion from the very beginning—or at the very least, that it never possessed the level of ...
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  Gender, Ethnicity, and Subtraction of Blackness in Mohammad Rasoulof's (Trans)National Cinema

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  Mehran Abdollahi The University of British Columbia

  February 25, 2025

  Persian poetry and music. The narrative begins with Golnar’s dance with  dayereh-zangi  (tambourine) in ...
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  Between Fact and Fiction: Reading Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig as Documentary

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  Michelle Quay Brown University

  February 26, 2025

  ensuing government crackdown: 2 million participants in 160 cities, at least 543 deaths (71 of them ...