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Some horror films explore women’s struggles for empowerment, sexual freedom and self-fulfilment. Six movies show the ghost, bride, mother, vampiress, witch and monster as guises of vengeful women.
Directors and audiences are becoming more comfortable with male frontal nudity. But what message does it send when almost all of the penises shown aren’t real?
A battle is raging between distributors with expensive blockbusters and cinemas with empty seats.
The motion picture industry has endured a pandemic before. But the coronavirus may completely upend the old way of doing business.
Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic noir , ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ blurred boundaries between reality and fiction through casting. Recognizing cameos makes viewers feel we’re part of the film’s story.
Two researchers viewed all the television series featuring a woman presidential figure, and a remarkably consistent pattern emerged: ambitious fictional female politicians ended up being bad leaders.
John Wyndham’s book The Midwich Cuckoos is set to be adapted for the screen for the third time. The tale of otherworldly children resonates with audiences today as much as it did in 1957.
For decades, there’s been a concerted effort by law enforcement to ensure their perspectives – and not those of people being policed – dominate prime-time television.
Viewing Nigerian movies is seen as a trip down memory lane, a virtual journey back home and group therapy for Africans in the diaspora.
For Nollywood to fully compete at the global level, it should adopt a smart, proactive approach.
Invisibility has been used to indulge fantasies of good and evil, level social critiques or warn of the dangers of power in the wrong hands.
The immersive future of live cinema is already being written.
Italian filmmakers are starting to take a page from their American counterparts.
Surrounded by skyscrapers and high-end boutiques, 47th Street continues to operate like an Old World bazaar, with million-dollar deals sealed by handshakes and insured by a family’s reputation.
From romance to sci-fi to buddy action comedy: here are the true feline stars of the silver screen.
A new analysis of over 400 actors shows that gender discrimination plays a major role in Hollywood salaries.
The persistence of this trope might say something about the barriers women in media continue to face.
Holiday movies offer us a glimpse into how the world is could be, often in sharp contrast to our lives as they are. In that way, the annual act of viewing them is like a religious ritual.
Not so long ago, people had no idea what would happen to them – and what they would see – once they ascended into the clouds.
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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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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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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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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
