A cultural studies scholar says Netflix’s removal of their ‘Palestinian Stories’ section, along with about 20 films, is more than a simple business decision: it’s instead an act of cultural erasure.
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Editing a movie beside the late, great Paul Cox was like attending ‘a one on one’ film school. The growling auteur was a brilliantly stubborn man, who treated film with reverence and wore his heart on his sleeve.
Bruce Isaacs analyses two related but very different scenes: the famous Copacabana tracking shot from Goodfellas (1990) and the opening scene in Hugo (2011).
Bruce Isaacs looks at an intense and emotionally charged scene from the 1980 classic, Raging Bull.
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow in Film and Screen Studies, Monash University
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Professor in Art, Curtin University
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer in Communication and Media, University of Wollongong
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Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Quinnipiac University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
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