This session explores the interplay between chance, fate and free will, through game-like structures in time-loop narratives in cinema.
Video Category: Cinematography
Virtues and Vices: thinking through taste in our visual culture
This session turns to the visual world to explore the themes of virtues and vices through the concept of ‘taste.’ What is deemed as worthy?
Borders, Boundaries & Bodies: Exploring Cosmopolitanism in and across Iranian Cinema
In this talk we’ll travel to contemporary Iranian cinema, to explore the ways borders, boundaries, and bodies intersect to get us to think about collectivity.
The On-Screen Anti-Hero
This session will consider the rising popularity of the anti-hero across film and television and to some extent, computer gaming.
Idols, Icons and Stars: Exploring Visual Activism Across Film and Media
In this talk, we’ll discuss idols as fictional characters, celebrities and public figures behind important political and social moments, from Hollywood’s #metoo all the way to Iran’s woman, life, freedom movement.
Childhood on Screen: Exploring Allegories in Iranian and World Cinema
In this talk, we look at the number of ways in which filmmakers from all over the world use the child figure to explore society and culture.
Death of the Sitcom?
This session will explore the role streaming services play in televised comedy and whether the concept and impact of the sitcom remains significant or a relegation of nostalgia.
From Giggles to Insight: Comedy’s Role in Tackling Tough Topics
From Giggles to Insight: Comedy’s Role in Tackling Tough Topics
(Un)Hidden Sexuality in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948)
This session will discuss the use of metaphor throughout Rope along with Hitchcock’s concurrently advanced and adverse representations of queer characters, which are simultaneously progressive for having centre- stage but also problematic for being villainous.
The Un(comfortableness) of the Point-of-View Shot in Cinema and Gaming
The session will explore how the awkward point of view shot contributes towards an awkward character type.
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