This year’s Sydney Film Festival presented a panoply of films. Highlights included a sinister documentary about competitive tickling, the tale of a woman who befriends a wolf and an indie comedy featuring Viggo Mortensen as a leftie dad.
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The president of the Thomas Wolfe Society explains why Law had his work cut out for him when he agreed to portray a man who was “a hydroelectric plant of emotion.”
Many broadcasters around the world enforce local content quotas to ensure their television industries’ survival. But the success of these measures varies widely.
From Psycho onward, film portrayals of the mentally ill have contributed to the stigma faced by people with these conditions. Films tend to create and reinforce stereotypes of the mentally ill as “homicidal…
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Development, Policy and Practice (DPP), The Open University
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Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Economics, Scripps College
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Professor, University of Gondar
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor. Cinema Arts, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor
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Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Lecturer, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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