Category: Readings
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Recent Reads: Alisa Lebow, So Mayer, Leo Goldsmith, etc.
— This is absolutely invaluable: “The Radical Copyeditor’s Style Guide for Writing about Transgender People” by Alex Kapitan. — Margaret
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2018: 10 Great Writers
This Happy New Year post is a way of thanking ten writers who gave me much reading pleasure and taught
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Recent Reads: FSFF Turns 10; Teaching Media Against the Global Right, etc.
— Here’s wishing Catherine Grant’s pioneering, iconic blog Film Studies for Free a Happy 10-year Anniversary! Catherine has put up
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Recent Reads: Woman with a Movie Camera, etc.
I’m starting a new monthly feature here for recent, particularly interesting reads about cinema, feminism, and politics. Here we go:
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TIFF 2015: Jerzy Skolimowski; Tsai Ming-liang
I’ve long heard good things about Jerzy Skolimowski; particularly esteemed are the four features he made in the 1960s, including
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TIFF 2015: Films and their Paratext
Two films at TIFF, both by filmmakers who exhibit their work in museums and galleries, raised for me some interesting
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Gina Telaroli and Kurt Walker
One of the “possible futures” of cinema (to use Gina Telaroli’s phrase) can be glimpsed on this Tumblr page, on