The costumes in period dramas are opulent and highly memorable, shaping how we think of the royal family beyond the screen.
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It’s not the sole answer to fixing structural inequalities, but as a profession committed to addressing harassment and abuse on set, it’s clearly needed
Released in 2001, it was the first film to really give Pixar a run for its money.
Hailed as an Australian hero, Rosemary Kariuki works to connect refugee and migrant women through their strengths and joys — rather than treating them like ‘problems’ to be fixed.
Soo Yong’s career, particularly when contrasted with Anna May Wong’s, shows how Hollywood and Chinese popular culture aimed to depict Chinese women amid shifting Chinese-American relationships.
Relying on familiar stereotypes and images can make us miss this critical opportunity to reshape the ways in which Asian women are viewed as individuals and artists.
A neuroscientist and a clinician watched two new films about dementia. They recognised what they saw.
The experience of going to the cinema is unique, wrote Woolf.
A new film ignores some of the most striking details of the man who sold a fake Vermeer to the Nazis.
From festivals to awards, generating buzz can increase the gross earnings of a film and even increase investment in a country’s film industry.
It’s a malleable mythos that has been adapted by kings and queens as well as artists and filmmakers.
For decades, rape-revenge films focused on fathers avenging crimes against their daughters. But filmmakers are telling new stories.
Early into the pandemic there were cries and questions as to whether the cinema industry would survive. The answer, it seems, was here all along. A robust and diverse local industry.
If you still haven’t seen this movie about a jazz pianist whose soul goes on a great adventure, it’s about time you did.
In depicting brutal massacres and mission life, this film gets a lot right. And the model for its central protagonist may well be a young man called Narlim, exiled from his country in the late 1930s.
The Digs’ archaeologists are closer to reality than the intrepid Indiana Jones, and that’s refreshing.
The sequel to 2018’s Occupation, this new alien invasion film is overly ambitious, both incomprehensible and shrill.
What role does culture play when it comes to disasters?
Dead cities are enduring images in post-apocalyptic literature and cinema.
Watching a foreign film or TV show doesn’t automatically teach you the language – but there are ways to make it stick.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Professor of Screen and Design, Deakin University
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Researcher and Sessional Tutor in Screen and Cultural Studies; Secretary for the Melbourne Cinematheque, The University of Melbourne
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Roehampton
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Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Executive Director, Compton School
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Lecturer in Film, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature, University of Exeter
