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.
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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).
Themed Playlist: Acting the Ape: Hollywood Gorilla Men
Becky Bartlett offers a list of films that draw attention to gorilla characters and the the ‘golden age’ of ape suit cinema (the 1940s-1960s) in Hollywood.
Themed Playlist: Dreaming of a Cult Christmas
What better for the end of a weird year but the list of weird Christmas films from Becky Bartlett?
Themed Playlist: Black Queer Youth
In this list, LEUNG Wing-Fai highlights the narratives that feature queer black youth as protagonists.
Themed Playlist: Radical Film Network Returns
In May 2020, Clive Myer provided a playlist introducing us to the work of the Radical Film Network. He returns now with a follow up list to let us know that there are now over 150 films available, free of charge, to students, researchers, the academic community and the public at large on the Radical Film Network website.
Themed Playlist: Queer Cinema from Mainland China
A wonderful playlist of films produced and/or circulated in China that centre on queer people’s lives, or films in which queer people’s stories are central to the film narrative, regardless of the gender and sexual identities of the filmmakers and the target audience.
Themed Playlist: She’s Come Undone: Apocalypses, Big and Small
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson offers a list of apocalypses written on and through the bodies of girls and women.
Themed Playlist: What to Watch to Prepare for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
In which Leshu Torchin, resident Borat expert and documentary scholar, recommends viewing to accompany Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest foray into Borat and his special brand of documentary work.