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Outing Hybridity: Polymorphism, Identity, And Desire In Monika Trent's Virgin Machine, Kathrin M. Bower Apr 2015

Outing Hybridity: Polymorphism, Identity, And Desire In Monika Trent's Virgin Machine, Kathrin M. Bower

Kathrin M. Bower

Monika Treut's 1988 film, Virgin Machine, offers a playful, self-ironizing look at the construction of sexual identities, utilizing the techniques specific to the filmic medium to create cuts and bridges between concepts, characters, and locations. In its portrayal of the passage and passages of the story's central character, Dorothe Muller, the film takes the viewer on a voyage of self-exploration and self-discovery that moves from one harbor city, Hamburg, and ends in another, San Francisco. The move between harbor cities carries associations of commerce and exchange, arrivals and departures, as well as the potential for import and export of goods …

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Revisiting A Struggle: Port Kembla, 1938, Rowan Cahill Mar 2015

Revisiting A Struggle: Port Kembla, 1938, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

A review and discussion of the 2015 documentary film 'Pig Iron Bob' (Producer/Director Sandra Pires). The focus of this film is the dramatic 2-month long boycott by Australian waterside workers in Port Kembla (NSW), 1938/39, of a cargo of Australian pig-iron bound for Japan. The workers took their action in protest against Japanese militarism and the Sino-Japanese War. The boycott enraged the conservative Australian government of the day which pulled out all stops to maintain its policy of appeasement towards Japan.

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A Gay Date With History: A History Of The Boston Lgbt Film Festival, Andrew Elder May 2010

A Gay Date With History: A History Of The Boston Lgbt Film Festival, Andrew Elder

Andrew Elder

George Mansour has been booking film in Boston-area movie theaters for 46 years. In the early 1980s, in addition to booking films for more mainstream commercial and art movie houses like the Orson Welles in Cambridge and the Nickelodeon just outside Kenmore Square, Mansour booked films for the South Station Cinema, a gay porn house in Boston. His work for the South Station Cinema, Mansour told The History Project in a recent interview, was the catalyst for what would become the Boston LGBT Film Festival.

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Plurality Of Discourses In Euripides' Ion: Euripides As Thinker And Dramatist (In Greek With English Summary), Katerina Zacharia Feb 2003

Plurality Of Discourses In Euripides' Ion: Euripides As Thinker And Dramatist (In Greek With English Summary), Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

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Teaching Tv Production In A Digital World (Book Review), Paul Kauppila Jan 2003

Teaching Tv Production In A Digital World (Book Review), Paul Kauppila

Paul Kauppila

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Book Review Of Lee, K.H., Euripides' Ion., Katerina Zacharia Dec 1998

Book Review Of Lee, K.H., Euripides' Ion., Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

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The Filmic Reframing Of El Disputado Voto Del Señor Cayo By Miguel Delibes, Teresa Boucher Dec 1998

The Filmic Reframing Of El Disputado Voto Del Señor Cayo By Miguel Delibes, Teresa Boucher

Teresa Boucher

Miguel Delibes's 1978 novel El disputado voto del señor Cayo deals with political campaigning for the first democratic elections of the post-Franco era in Burgos and the villages in the surrounding area in June 1977. The novel valorizes the self-sufficient rural existence of Sr. Cayo in harmony with nature that is on the verge of extinction and attempts to bring the concerns of rural Spain to the political agenda of the transition.

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Book Review Of Meagher, R.M., Euripides’ Bakkhai, Katerina Zacharia Dec 1996