Yung-Hang Bruce Lai, “Representations of Christianity in Chinese Independent Cinema: Gan Xiao’er’s Postsocialist Religious Critique,” Religions 15, no. 4 (2024): 443.
Yung-Hang Bruce Lai, “Representations of Christianity in Chinese Independent Cinema: Gan Xiao’er’s Postsocialist Religious Critique,” Religions 15, no. 4 (2024):…
Mia Parnall, “Intimate Alienations: The Octopus Body as Cinematic Écriture,” The Neutral, no. 3 (2024): The Unhuman.
Mia Parnall, “Intimate Alienations: The Octopus Body as Cinematic Écriture,” The Neutral, no. 3 (2024): The Unhuman. AbstractFor theorists from…
Sarah Cooper ‘Vegetal Life, Plant Soul: Early British Film Flowers,’ in Mark Cauchi, ed., Cinema and Secularism (New York: Bloomsbury, 2023),
Sarah Cooper ‘Vegetal Life, Plant Soul: Early British Film Flowers,’ in Mark Cauchi, ed., Cinema and Secularism (New York: Bloomsbury,…
Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon, “A Timely Education. Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)” in Angela McRobbie ed, Ulrike Ottinger. Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination. Intellect, 2024.
Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon, “A Timely Education. Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)” in Angela McRobbie ed, Ulrike Ottinger: Film,…
Chris Berry, “Pema Tseden (1969–2023): A Tribute,” Film Quarterly, Spring 2024, Volume 77, Number 3.
Chris Berry, “Pema Tseden (1969–2023): A Tribute,” Film Quarterly, Spring 2024, Volume 77, Number 3. In 2023, China’s first Tibetan…
Victor Fan, “Toward a Cinematic Transtopia,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 17, no. 1 (2023): 81–94.
Fan, Victor. “Toward a Cinematic Transtopia.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 17, no. 1 (2023): 81–94. doi:10.1080/17508061.2024.2312727. AbstractHas Chinese independent cinema begun to…
Belén Vidal (2023) The Barbara hypothesis: performance and spectatorship in the musical biopic
Belén Vidal has published a new article on the film Barbara for French Screen Studies: ACCESS THE ARTICLE HERE Belén Vidal (2023) The Barbara hypothesis: performance and spectatorship…
Tabula Rasa: the Western under Erasure in The Rider and Jauja
Luis Freijo, “Tabula rasa: the Western under erasure in The Rider and Jauja,” Transnational Screens 14, no.1, (2023): 64-80, DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2023.2185381.
Buddhism and Film Theory: Beyond a Legacy
Victor Fan, “Buddhism and Film Theory: Beyond a Legacy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, ed. Kyle Stevens (New York: Oxford…
Laborer’s Love: An Anthropotechnogenetic Mediation between Cinematism and Animetism
Victor Fan, “Laborer’s Love: An Anthropotechnogenetic Mediation between Cinematism and Animetism,” Journal of Chinese Film Studies 2, no. 2 (November…
Interbeing
Victor Fan, “Interbeing,” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, 13 March 2023.
Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in Classical Hong Kong Cinema
Victor Fan, “Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in Classical Hong Kong Cinema,” Concentric 49, no. 1 (March 2023): 27–47. Code-switching and -mixing…
The Heart And the Sea: on the Lifeblood and Elemental Folds of Réparer les vivants
Sarah Cooper, “The heart and the sea: on the lifeblood and elemental folds of Réparer les vivants,” French Screen Studies, September 2023, DOI: 10.1080/26438941.2023.2247811. In…
Conjuring the cinematic pissoir
Elena Gorfinkel, “Conjuring the cinematic pissoir,” World Picture 14 “Spell” (Autumn 2023).
Coming to Wonder: On Cinema’s Renewal of Vision
A new chapter by Catherine Wheatley published as part of a volume on the value of film spectatorship.
It’s Invaluable: On Film Spectatorship in the Era of Covid-19
A new chapter by Sarah Cooper on film spectatorship in the era of Covid-19.
Vessels and Cargos: Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in Johnnie To’s Drug War and Lee Hae-young’s remake Believer
Jinhee Choi, “Vessels and Cargos: Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in Johnnie To’s Drug War and Lee Hae-young’s remake Believer.”…
REFLECTIONS ON AN EXHIBITION: The Multiple Worlds of ‘No Master Territories’
Erika Balsom, “Reflections on An Exhibition: The Multiple Worlds of ‘No Master Territories,” New Left Review 138 (Jan/Feb 2023). https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii139/articles/erika-balsom-reflections-on-an-exhibition.
Platform, Showcase, Gathering, Exchange: A Conversation about Film Festivals with Erika Balsom, George Clark, Chris Kennedy, Eduardo Thomas, and Koyo Yamashita
Chris Kennedy, “Platform, Showcase, Gathering, Exchange: A Conversation about Film Festivals with Erika Balsom, George Clark, Chris Kennedy, Eduardo Thomas,…
Feminist Filmmaking from the Ground Up: Three Films from the 1980s
Michele Pierson, “Feminist Filmmaking from the Ground Up: Three Films from the 1980s,” in A Companion to Experimental Cinema, edited…
Weird’ Sex Scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos
Alice Haylett Bryan, “‘Weird’ Sex Scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos,” in The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos : Films, Form, Philosophy, edited by…
Dog, Lobster, Deer, Rabbit: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Animal Metaphors
Savina Petkova, “Dog, Lobster, Deer, Rabbit: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Animal Metaphors,” in The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos : Films, Form, Philosophy, edited…
Decolonial Gesture and the Screening of the Botanical Artist in Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (Bo Wang and Pan Lu, 2017)
Sarah Cooper, “Decolonial Gesture and the Screening of the Botanical Artist in Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (Bo Wang and Pan…
Tim Burton’s Unruly Animation
Chris Holliday, “Tim Burton’s Unruly Animation,” in Tim Burton’s Bodies: Gothic, Animated, Corporeal and Creaturely, edited by Frances Pheasant-Kelly and…
Aardman’s Animal Farm: “Loaded” Livestock and Illustrative Aesthetics in Shaun the Sheep (2007–)
Chris Holliday, “Aardman’s Animal Farm: “Loaded” Livestock and Illustrative Aesthetics in Shaun the Sheep (2007–),” in Children, Youth, and International…
Retroframing the Future: Digital De-aging Technologies in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Chris Holliday, “Retroframing the Future: Digital De-aging Technologies in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema,” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61,…
“Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Rhythmanalysis.”
Chris Holliday, “Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Rhythmanalysis,” in ReFocus: The Films of…
C’est Grave: Raw, Cannibalism, And the Racialising Logic of White Feminism
Rosalind Galt, and Annette-Carina van der Zaag, “C’est Grave: Raw, Cannibalism, And the Racialising Logic of White Feminism,” Journal of…
The Spirits of African Cinema: Redemptive Aesthetics in Mati Diop’s Atlantics
Rosalind Galt, “The Spirits of African Cinema: Redemptive Aesthetics in Mati Diop’s Atlantics,” Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism, no.…
Cinema of the Grandmother
Elena Gorfinkel, “Cinema of the Grandmother” in Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, eds. Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg (London:…
Wang Baoqiang: the Man-Child Bumpkin in Chinese Comedy Films
Yung-Hang Lai, “Wang Baoqiang: the Man-Child Bumpkin in Chinese Comedy Films,” Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 12/13 (2022).…
Adoption: Wayward Faces
Elena Gorfinkel, “Adoption: Wayward Faces,” The Criterion Collection, Adoption DVD/Bluray liner essay, March 2022.
Regions of Eccentricity: Penny Allen’s Property (1978)
Elena Gorfinkel, “Regions of Eccentricity: Penny Allen’s Property (1978)” & director Q&A, Architecture on Film, Architecture Foundation, London , March…
Portals of Deliquescence
Elena Gorfinkel, “Portals of Deliquescence,” Second Run DVD, Luminous Procuress DVD liner essayMay 30 2022.
weary of the screen: Lucy Clout’s nocturnal thinking
Elena Gorfinkel, “weary of the screen: Lucy Clout’s nocturnal thinking,” LUX Moving Image, July 12 2022 (exhibition essay).
DANGEROUS LIAISONS: “Who’s Afraid of Doris Wishman?”
Elena Gorfinkel, “Who’s afraid of Doris Wishman?” Artforum, September 12 2022.
Energetics and Erotics: On Schneemann’s Cinema
Elena Gorfinkel, “Energetics and Erotics: On Schneemann’s Cinema,” in Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, eds. Lotte Johnson & Chris Bayley, (New…
From Extraterritoriality to Extratemporality: Contemporary Media and Politics in Hong Kong
Victor Fan, “From Extraterritoriality to Extratemporality: Contemporary Media and Politics in Hong Kong,” in The Routledge Companion to Media and…
Recent Articles
The most recent articles, book chapters, catalogue entries, and video essays by staff and students in the Film Department at King’s College London
Recent Articles
The most recent articles, book chapters, catalogue entries, and video essays by staff in the Film Department at King’s College London