Themed Playlist: Filming Abortion
From Maria San Filippo, a tie-in to her recent Flow column “Maude & Me; Or, Responsibilities of a Feminist Media Critic,” this list features films that represent abortion in resonant, hopefully mind-changing ways.
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Themed Playlist: Film, Water, and Politics in the American West
From Tyler Parks, a list of films that promote and explore water landscapes in the American West: How did they envision utopias and progress, and what can we learn from them about how we see development, the environment, and politics today?
Themed Playlist: Queer Memory on Screen
From Anamarija Horvat (University of Nottingham), a playlist of films and television programmes that have contributed to the formation of queer memory, shaping how viewers imagine queer history and the past …
Themed Playlist: Discovery and Beginnings
Ania Trzebiatowska has recently joined the University as the festival director of Sands – International Film Festival of St Andrews. She generously contributed a playlist on the theme of discovery and beginnings, featuring her favourite debuts of the past decade.
Themed Playlist: The Documentaries of Marcel Łoziński
Marcel Łoziński is Poland’s best-known and most respected documentarians. Dina Iordanova offers an overview of his influences and works.
Themed Playlist: Censors and Sensibility
From St Andrews Film Studies postgraduate researcher, Milo Farragher-Hanks, a playlist about censorship and moral panic, prompted by Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond, UK, 2019), which is streaming on BFIPlayer.
Themed Playlist: Phone/Camera – Technology, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling
Check out the Frames Cinema Journal 18 cross-over event with a themed playlist entitled Phone-Camera at the Intersection of Technology, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling.
Themed Playlist: Voices of West Papua
Veronika Kusumaryati highlights the art, culture, creativity, and voices of West Papuans in a list of advocacy, music, and exhibitions.
Themed Playlist: The Female Detective on TV
To coincide with the publication of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture’s issue on the Female Detective on TV, this collaboratively-created playlist features several of the collection’s contributors offering their recommendations of TV shows featuring female detectives. Enjoy this list of things to watch and read.
Themed Playlist: Engaged Observation
Filmmaker and sound artist Mark Lyken provides a list of films that influenced the making of his recently released film, 1300 Shots. These films push beyond the observational mode in engaging, creative, and inventive ways.
Themed Playlist: Post-Romantic Comedy
To coincide with the publication of After “Happily Ever After”: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age, newly available from Wayne State University Press, the contributors recommend ‘post-romantic comedies’ that challenge the tired tropes of the neoliberal rom-com.
Themed Playlist: The Scene on Screen
From Dr Nessa Johnston (Edgehill University) Raving, clubbing and partying: the scene on screen After a whole year in which it’s been illegal to gather socially and clubs …
Themed Playlist: Visual Design: Ruth E Carter and Hannah Beachler
This playlist reflects on the Oscar-winning work of Hannah Beachler and Ruth E Carter for Black Panther (2018), and what this means for representation more widely.
Themed Playlist: Giving Back
A varied playlist made by the St Andrews Class Gift Committee surrounding the theme of ‘Giving Back’.
Themed Playlist: Queer Feminist Citations
Clara Bradbury-Rance’s playlist offers a selection of films brought together by their use of queer / feminist recollections and citations.
Themed Playlist: Screening Sexual Provocation
Inspired by Maria San Filippo’s new book, her playlist explores the idea of sexual provocation and its different functions.
Themed Playlist: The Mediated Voice
Built from the CSC roundtable on The Mediated Voice, a collective playlist that builds on that event to explore connections of voice to gender and race, of dubbing and performance, of authenticity and creativity.
Themed Playlist: A World Inside a Room
This playlist is inspired by the 60 Hour Film Blitz’s 2021 theme: “A world inside a room.” Each team will create a short film using only one room of their homes, and this playlist therefore features films all predominantly shot in a single location.
Themed Playlist: Beyond Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7
If you are watching The Chicago 7, released in October 2020 on Netflix, don’t stop there. Archivist Regina Longo offers a list of film and resources to give you further insight into the history and its mediation.
Themed Playlist: Chinese Independent Cinema
A playlist that offers a taster of Chinese independent cinema and some of the holdings of The Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA).