Japanese Godzilla movies reflect the country’s complex history as victims of the only nuclear bombings and as a rapidly developing economy in the 20th century.
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Horror movies allow us to confront our deepest fears through the safety of make-believe.
The technology holds huge potential for use in visual effects, but there are also risks for the industry.
Like the Japanese atomic survivors who were awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Godzilla has a message to share.
The Substance is a satirical body-horror and science fiction film underpinned by feminist critique.
These films and TV shows explore the origins, impact and aftermath of the allied strategic gamble, 80 years on.
As the Democratic National Convention returns to Chicago, there’s an appetite in that city to revisit films from the bloody and violent time the convention was last held in that city: 1968.
Disaster films as we know them have been around for more than five decades – and often deal with climate disasters. Twisters is a refreshing take.
Eyes Wide shut was released shortly after the death of director Stanley Kubrick in 1999.
Even when Furiosa doesn’t speak, the new films are a huge step forward for the portrayal of women’s stories in the Mad Max world.
Did the beloved 1980s teen classic The Karate Kid perpetuate Orientalist stereotypes?
To understand how ‘Furiosa’ and other new films challenge car culture’s male-centric conventions, it’s useful to look closely at how car culture has favoured a certain kind of male hero.
Ahead of elections in India, a series of films that promote the ruling party’s right-wing ideology are seeking to influence voters. An art historian explains how the trend started.
Cinema offers a unique way to pin down 500 years of Spain’s fragmented, shifting identity from 1492 to 1992.
When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it.
Plenty of movies have explicitly religious themes, but some of the most interesting examples of faith or transcendence on screen are much more subtle.
25 years after the death of the legendary director, a new book offers fresh insights into Stanley Kubrick’s personal and professional life.
Sometimes I feel that after Chernobyl our land is cursed. Hearing about French children watching Mavka in a Parisian cinema, I felt hope.
As The Settlers reminds us, films have often played a crucial role in helping establish and disseminate colonial mythologies.
There is a stark contrast in box office figures between musical films that market themselves as ‘musicals’ and those that don’t.
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Roehampton
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies
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PhD Candidate, Film Theory and Media Industries, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Cultures Education, Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, King's College London
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Senior Lecturer in Creative & Cultural Industries, De Montfort University
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Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies for Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, University of South Wales
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Associate Dean, The University of Melbourne