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  Soulful Cinema, an Instrument… A Weapon… and Probably a Hat

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  Corey Coach PhD

  March 27, 2026

  room acquire the title, but not others that offer a better sense of familiarity and togetherness?  I’m ... openness to all relations that would be possible within a Black world.[4] Such aliveness fundamentally ... possible by the affordances and limitations of the instrument used to depict it. Yet “more than ...
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  The (Black)Maternal Function and Opticality

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  Lizette London Emory University

  March 25, 2026

  and thus lens the (im)materiality of Blackness—whether in cinematic form or that which is created ...
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  Uncertainty is the Point

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  Anna Winter MFA

  March 26, 2026

  opens up the possibility of making something that feels alive, something that couldn’t have been ...
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  Posterior Antagonisms in Larisa Shepitko's Heat (1962)

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  Jayson William Quearry GSU Perimeter College

  February 03, 2026

  uncommon at the time. However, here another possible antagonism arises. To satisfy industry standards, the ...
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  Never Have I Ever: Navigating the Autonomy-Connection Dialectic

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  Gianmarco Soares de Vargas Texas Tech University

  March 31, 2026

  lens, it's possible to find concepts that are not shown superficially. Analyzing media in this way ...
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  “The Instant in Which”: What Big Jet TV Livestreaming and TikTok Cat Videos Have in Common 

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 26, 2026

  up on the possibility of another “post-industrial accident,” the accident-prone jet invention ... accumulation of contradictory possibilities and ambivalent feelings in what he calls the “vertical dimension.” ... of the possibilities (this or that) are placed, one on top of the other, all the better to be packed ...
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  Introduction to Special Issue on Audiovisual Criticism

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 23, 2026

  It therefore must be possible, Dyer thinks, “to critique affect by means of affect” (2017, 148). And ... down meaning —yet words in combination with images also open up new conceptual possibilities.  Thinking ... forward? To return to my initial reference to videographic variations as possible new forms of  academic ...
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  Excavations and Confrontations with Labor in Kaori Oda's Aragane

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  Jarred Biederstaedt Georgia State University

  February 11, 2026

  unmotivated disruptive smears of light that occasionally reveals possible words within the frame questions the ...
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  Studying to See

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  Daren Fowler PhD

  March 23, 2026

  thread of Ailey? How do you shape a film  through  him without being afforded the possibility of relying ...