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At Q’s of course! But he doesn’t pull them out of his sleeve. In Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw play the famous spy and his gadget supplier.
Many Christmas-themed movies centre around single people searching for love. But many people are increasingly happy being single and in no rush to find a partner.
‘Somebody has to do something’: Top feature film and documentary picks from scholars examining climate change and cinema offer courage to hold contradictory truths and pursue climate solutions.
The film asks how individuals and communities can tackle disaster while embracing an ethos of mutual aid that sidesteps yearning for nationalist policies that lead to even more harm.
From Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, to The Door-to-Door Bookstore, a variety of new novels present bookselling as a source of solace, meaning and escape. What’s going on here?
The release of ‘American Fiction’ presents an opportunity to talk about race, power and white supremacy: What version of Blackness is acceptable or saleable within American culture?
In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, ‘American Fiction.’
While the film’s terrorists may have been fake, the message about the political climate of the time is real.
Leaving out the history of Napoléon’s brutal subjugation of Haiti is akin to making a movie about Hitler without mentioning the Holocaust.
In-flight entertainment has evolved significantly over the years, from a one-off experiment to the on-demand streaming services many of us are now used to.
The original storyline for Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
A sad song coupled with a happy movie scene can become strangely memorable.
We’re all familiar with a green ‘G’ or a red ‘MA’ on a movie poster, but those ratings don’t have any basis in what we know about child development. They’d be much more useful for parents if they did.
The famous composer certainly didn’t have haunted houses in mind when he wrote the piece.
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
As Hollywood continues to reckon with its past, Vivien Leigh’s story is a reminder of the challenges faced by women, even the most successful ones.
‘Film therapy’ is a growing area of interest among experts.
The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.
Most movies tend to minimise or exaggerate insomnia symptoms. Insomnia is also rarely depicted as an illness that can be treated.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Research Fellow, Development, Policy and Practice (DPP), The Open University
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Professor of Economics, Scripps College
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Professor, University of Gondar
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Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor. Cinema Arts, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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