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Maria Chapdelaine, Sherry Coman Oct 2021

Maria Chapdelaine, Sherry Coman

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This is a film review of Maria Chapdelaine (2021), directed by Sébastien Pilote.

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The Mad Women’S Ball, Kyle Derkson Oct 2021

The Mad Women’S Ball, Kyle Derkson

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This is a film review of The Mad Women’s Ball (2021), directed by Mélanie Laurent.

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Blindspotting And Covid: The Gentrification Of Racism, Ashley Starr-Morris Oct 2021

Blindspotting And Covid: The Gentrification Of Racism, Ashley Starr-Morris

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The novel Coronavirus is not only exposing old patterns of racism and systemic inequalities, but deepening them as well. The notion of blindspotting, as described in the film by the same name, is used to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the “spiritual emergency” or crisis of racism in America. "Blindspotting" is an image or situation that can be interpreted in two ways but is understood by some in only one way, thereby producing a blind spot. In 2020 and 2021, we see segments of American society, from politics to white Christian nationalism, upholding a sacred canopy of exceptionalism by …

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In France, Michelle Is A Man's Name, John Lyden Apr 2021

In France, Michelle Is A Man's Name, John Lyden

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This is a review of the short film, In France, Michelle is a Man's Name (2021), directed by Em Weinstein.

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Temporary Marriage In Iran: Gender And Body Politics In Modern Iranian Film And Literature, Alicia Izharuddin Mar 2021

Temporary Marriage In Iran: Gender And Body Politics In Modern Iranian Film And Literature, Alicia Izharuddin

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This is a book review of Claudia Yaghoobi, Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

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Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story Of An Image, Eric Michael Mazur Mar 2021

Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story Of An Image, Eric Michael Mazur

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This is a book review of Shaina Hammerman, Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story of An Image (Indiana University Press, 2018).

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Flee, John C. Lyden Feb 2021

Flee, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of Flee (2021), directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen.

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Rebel Hearts, John C. Lyden Feb 2021

Rebel Hearts, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of Rebel Hearts (2021), directed by Pedro Kos.

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Queer Muslim Diasporas In Contemporary Literature And Film, Hina Muneeruddin Oct 2020

Queer Muslim Diasporas In Contemporary Literature And Film, Hina Muneeruddin

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This is a book review of Alberto Fernández Carbajal's Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film.

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Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa, William L. Blizek Feb 2020

Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa, William L. Blizek

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This is a film review of Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa (2019) directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, and Mike Attie.

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Queen Of The Capital, William L. Blizek Feb 2020

Queen Of The Capital, William L. Blizek

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This is a film review of Queen of the Capital (2020) directed by Josh Davidsburg.

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Saudi Runaway, John C. Lyden Jan 2020

Saudi Runaway, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of Saudi Runaway (2020) directed by Susanne Regina Meures.

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Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness, John C. Lyden Jan 2020

Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness (2019) directed by Massoud Bakhshi.

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Into The Deep, Jodi Mcdavid Jan 2020

Into The Deep, Jodi Mcdavid

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This is a film review of Into the Deep (2020) directed by Emma Sullivan.

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On The Record, Jodi Mcdavid Jan 2020

On The Record, Jodi Mcdavid

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This is a film review of On the Record (2020) directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering.

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Run Sweetheart Run, Jodi Mcdavid Jan 2020

Run Sweetheart Run, Jodi Mcdavid

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This is a film review of Run Sweetheart Run (2020) directed by Shana Feste.

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The Assistant, John C. Lyden Jan 2020

The Assistant, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of The Assistant (2020), directed by Kitty Green.

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Uncle Frank, John C. Lyden Jan 2020

Uncle Frank, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of Uncle Frank (2020), directed by Alan Ball.

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Scare Me, Jodi Mcdavid Jan 2020

Scare Me, Jodi Mcdavid

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This is a film review of Scare Me (2020), directed by Josh Ruben.

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Mucho Mucho Amor, Jodi Mcdavid Jan 2020

Mucho Mucho Amor, Jodi Mcdavid

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This is a film review of Mucho Mucho Amor (2020), directed by Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch.

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The Lighthouse, Kyle Derkson Oct 2019

The Lighthouse, Kyle Derkson

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This is a film review of The Lighthouse (2019), directed by Robert Eggers.

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Muslim Women In French Cinema: Voices Of Maghrebi Migrants In France, Shreya Parikh Oct 2019

Muslim Women In French Cinema: Voices Of Maghrebi Migrants In France, Shreya Parikh

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This is a book review of Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp's Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015).

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Divine Love, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Divine Love, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of Divine Love (2019) directed by Gabriel Mascaro.

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Sister Aimee, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Sister Aimee, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of Sister Aimee (2019), directed by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann.

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Hala, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Hala, John C. Lyden

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This is a film review of Hala (2019), directed by Minhal Baig.

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Markie In Milwaukee, William L. Blizek Jan 2019

Markie In Milwaukee, William L. Blizek

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This is a film review of Markie in Milwaukee (2019) directed by Matt Kliegman.

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‘Love-Jihad’ And Bollywood: Constructing Muslims As ‘Other’, Nadira Khatun Dec 2018

‘Love-Jihad’ And Bollywood: Constructing Muslims As ‘Other’, Nadira Khatun

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In the postcolonial nation state that is India, cinema has become an important tool for propagating the idea of nationalism. In recent times, one of the most controversial components of Hindu nationalism has been the hate campaign against what is termed as ‘love-jihad’, which is deployed as a weapon to mobilize, polarize, and communalize citizens. The Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, has also become a controversial site. In this paper, I argue that if ‘Indian nationalism’ is to be represented as ‘Hindu nationalism’ and ‘Indian culture’ as ‘Hindu culture,’ it logically follows that this majoritarian construction needs …

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‘I Am That Very Witch’: On The Witch, Feminism, And Not Surviving Patriarchy, Laurel Zwissler Dec 2018

‘I Am That Very Witch’: On The Witch, Feminism, And Not Surviving Patriarchy, Laurel Zwissler

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While contemporary discussions about witchcraft include reinterpretations and feminist reclamations, early modern accusations contained no such complexity. It is this historical witch as misogynist nightmare that the film, The Witch: A New England Folktale (2015), expresses so effectively. Within the film, the very patriarchal structures that decry witchcraft – the Puritan church from which the family exiles itself, the male headship to which the parents so desperately cling, the insistence, in the face of repeated failure, on the viability of the isolated nuclear family unit – are the same structures that inevitably foreclose the options of the lead character, Thomasin.

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A Journey Into The Heart Of God: Darren Aronofsky’S Noah (2014) As A Subversive Kabbalistic Text, Lindsay Macumber, Magi Abdul-Masih Dec 2018

A Journey Into The Heart Of God: Darren Aronofsky’S Noah (2014) As A Subversive Kabbalistic Text, Lindsay Macumber, Magi Abdul-Masih

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The title of this paper reflects our interpretation of this film as a subversive mystical text, from within the Jewish tradition of Kabbalah. This interpretation is itself the product of a long journey of thinking about, and wrestling with this film in various ways. In this paper, we will outline this journey, concentrating on our first impressions of the film, some notable shifts in our thinking on this film that alerted us to the connection between the film and Jewish mysticism, and some concluding remarks about the implications of this reading.

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Representations Of Nineteenth Century Mormonism In A Mormon Maid: A Cinematic Analysis, Elisabeth Weagel Dec 2018

Representations Of Nineteenth Century Mormonism In A Mormon Maid: A Cinematic Analysis, Elisabeth Weagel

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During the first quarter of the 20th century there was a trend in Hollywood to make films about Mormons. Practices such as polygamy created just the kind of sensationalism that attracted filmmakers (even Thomas Edison contributed with his 1902 film A Trip to Salt Lake). Many of these were B-pictures, but the 1917 film A Mormon Maid stands out because it was produced by a major production company (Paramount) and was backed by top director Cecil B. DeMille. It is often given passing reference, but very little genuine scholarship has been done on the film. A hundred years …

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