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  (Im)Possible Asias: Introduction

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  Anirban Baishya University of Southern California

  March 14, 2016

  (Im)Possible Asias: Introduction identity cinema (Im)Possible Asias Curator's Note Where is ... that we speak of “(Im)Possible Asias,” where the limits on these multiple imaginations always linger on ... valuable inputs on this post (Im)Possible Asias from Darshana Sreedhar Mini ...
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  Post-Cinematic Effects

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  Paul Bowman Cardiff University

  August 30, 2011

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  Post-cinematic effects, yes; Shaviro makes an important observation. But affects? I’m not so sure why or how they ...
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  Bodies, Emptiness, and Sleep in Ghost Tropic

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  Valentin Via

  October 12, 2022

  side. The absence of other bodies, the pleasant emptiness of falling asleep in the subway’s emptiness at ...
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  Cinema's Exhaustion and the Vitality of Affect

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  Elena del Rio University of Alberta

  August 29, 2011

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  possibility? Exhaustion without vitality is the zero degree of the body without organs, the emptied out body ... crassly commercial and the creative that he affirmed still possible or necessary, and does this ...
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  Form as Critique: On Fire at Sea

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  Mauro Resmini University of Maryland College Park

  February 29, 2024

  islanders and the materiality of their daily life on one side, and the disembodied voices of foreign victims ... left side of the image—a sort of quiet reminder that as much as Samuele (and the Lampedusans, of which ... articulated in the essay I’m presenting here has benefitted from many conversations with Luka. [7] ...
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  Zoom, Cinema, and the Transnational Q&A

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  Brad Limov University of Texas at Austin

  May 10, 2021

  been possible pre-pandemic. While virtual Q&As within theater spaces were common in the past, such ... possibilities emerge for not just sustaining communities, but bridging them in new ways. It is essential that we ...
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  The HETEROTOPIA OF SAINT PETERSBURG: Film Landmark of POLITICAL CHANGE

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  Xenia Leonteva Georgia State University

  February 12, 2025

  “The film reveals the  softer side of the city without bloody scenes of violence and cruelty, the ... of just three examples of St. Petersburg’s depiction in Russian cinema, it is possible to trace how ... population, in the dream of a better life, which is, however, only possible in prosperous Finland. Once again, ...
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  Show-boating and Race-baiting: Movies aboard the 'Sunny South'

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  Paul S Moore Ryerson University

  October 12, 2020

  on one side of the river. “On the southern end of the circuit, seats are sold ‘black and white,’ no ...
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  "There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them": Procedurality and The Naked City

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  gwijthoff

  March 11, 2010

  2 comments

  "There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them": Procedurality and The Naked City 1940s adaptation cinema dassin Film Noir media theory procedurality procedure seriality serials telegraph telephone Curator's N ...
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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  September 03, 2012

  12 comments

  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street Wild Style racial politics Race/Ethnicity hip-hopsploitation Hip-Hop Cinema hip-hop cinema Beat Street 1980s Curator's Note If such a thing as “hip-hop cinema” exists, it wa ...

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