This article provides an overview of the recent flourishing research and pedagogy in higher education that seeks a greater rapprochement between criticism creativity, bringing together diverse media, disciplines, modes knowledge production expression. It focuses on transformations film screen studies ethical aesthetic possibilities conducting creative, intermedial through filmmaking, drawing au...

On 12 February 2020, while on an international tour promoting Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, translator of book, Omid Tofighian, participated in a seminar at Utrecht University, organised by Australian academic, Anna Poletti (associate professor English language and culture, University). is also co-editor journal Biography: interdisciplinary quarterly...

Korean-American writer, filmmaker, and performance artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE, first published in 1982, is an avant-garde, multimedia work. Its key themes are exile dislocation, primarily that of the Korean diaspora as its members navigate (post)colonial violence trauma. This paper explores usage diverse unconventional mediums — namely, uncaptioned images, fragmented prose, letters, ...

Drawing inspiration from Denis de Rougemont’s 1936 text Penser avec les mains, Jean-Luc Godard’s most recent film brings together what the Swiss philosopher calls “penser engagé” with his own unique kind of “cinéma engagé.” The Image Book (Le Livre d’image, 2018) starts three image-gestures that punctuate film: cropped close-up right hand Leonardo da Vinci’s St. John Baptist, French illustrator...

Filmmakers often pursue other source materials to discover inspiration for their narratives and create feature filmmaking in an important way on true events fictional stories. A film adaptation is a cinematic work, adapted from work of fiction or nonfiction. Common include novels, short stories, stage plays, radio television series, comics, video games, while nonfiction sources are memoirs, bio...

Abstract The so-called European ‘refugee crisis’ has bred a profusion of audiovisual accounts throughout the region, many which aimed to give voice hitherto voiceless, uprooted people. But as these ‘untold stories’ gain material expression storylines, we are urged consider implications yet another form displacement: from historical person film character, personal stories media representations. ...

Every five seconds someone dies prematurely from air pollution (UN, 2019). Environmental degradation, however, is not limited to the above alone, but also affects conditions of life underneath surface. Black lung disease (pneumoconiosis), a respiratory condition, by far most common occupational illness in China today. Official reports suggest that over half million people, almost exclusively ru...

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The following article deals with a small episode in the manifold relations between historical avant-garde Netherlands and Czechia Slovakia first half of twentieth century. Early December 1935, Dutch designer, photographer filmmaker Paul Schuitema decided that time was ripe for holiday trip to Czechoslovakia during his Christmas break as teacher at art academy Hague. His destination Brno, where ...