Tom Hickman argues in The Sexual Century (1999) that sexuality in the 20th century has gone from “private passion [to]… public obsession”, and is what Susan Sontag refers to as “one of the demonic forces in human consciousness – pushing…
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Kitne Sholay The? Animated Parodies of a Classic Bollywood Film
by Anitha Balachandran • April 15, 2016 • 0 Comments
40 years after its release, G.N Sippy’s Sholay (1975) is still arguably the most influential Hindi film ever made. Sholay’s plot is inspired by popular Hollywood westerns, and particular scenes recall famous films of this genre, such as Once Upon…
The Forgotten History of Animation in Film Studies
by Victoria Walden • November 5, 2014 • 4 Comments
“Cinema and media studies in the early twenty-first century needs a better understanding of the relationship between two of the film’s most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts: ‘animation’ and ‘film theory’. As the increasing digital nature of cinema now forces…