Abstract Nigeria is often portrayed as having a ‘Muslim north’ and ‘Christian south’. Such representations oversimplify the complicated interrelationships between two religious communities their geographic locations. Similarly, while much has been written on conflict Muslims Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, there less scholarly attention to philosophical communal relationships adhere...

This article documents He Xiaopei’s work as a film activist who contributes significantly to feminist and queer movements in contemporary China. Trained social scientist, Xiaopei then went on become the director of civil organization Pink Space Research Center mid-2000s well an independent filmmaker. Since 2010, she has produced more than ten documentary movies. However, despite greatness her c...

Reading through one another insights raised by feminist thinkers Gloria Anzaldúa, Chela Sandoval, Rosi Braidotti and Karen Barad, this work analyses the 1994 autofictional film Brincando el charco. Portrait of a Puerto Rican New York-based filmmaker scholar Frances Negrón-Muntaner. This is approached as prime example ways in which practices cinema have potential to reframe notions...

Long recognized as a pioneer of experimental filmmaking and feminist documentary theory, Julia Lesage is the closest we have to film scholar-practitioner. This interview was conducted by Sonja Boos on 16 January, 2020.

Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces: Conference 2011 Working Papers Collection 2012 In her 1982 film A Question of Silence, Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris poses an astute critical commentar y on the performance of femininity and the enactment of gender roles within the rigid patriarchal conventions of an ostensibly liberal urban society. Through Gorris’s cinematic lens, the delineation...

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Bo Burnham is a critically acclaimed American stand-up comedian and filmmaker. The usual themes in his works are the hypocrisy of artists, commercialisation art, role social media erasing boundary between public private. However, during pandemic, he chose to focus on theme anxiety, minor earlier works. Anxiety has been considered an integral part modernity as discussed by Anthony Giddens Zygmun...

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