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Yung-Hang Bruce Lai, “Representations of Christianity in Chinese Independent Cinema: Gan Xiao’er’s Postsocialist Religious Critique,” Religions 15, no. 4 (2024):…

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Mia Parnall, “Intimate Alienations: The Octopus Body as Cinematic Écriture,” The Neutral, no. 3 (2024): The Unhuman. AbstractFor theorists from…

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Sarah Cooper ‘Vegetal Life, Plant Soul: Early British Film Flowers,’ in Mark Cauchi, ed., Cinema and Secularism (New York: Bloomsbury,…

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Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon, “A Timely Education. Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)” in Angela McRobbie ed, Ulrike Ottinger: Film,…

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Chris Berry, “Pema Tseden (1969–2023): A Tribute,” Film Quarterly, Spring 2024, Volume 77, Number 3. In 2023, China’s first Tibetan…

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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…

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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…

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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.

Victor Fan, “Buddhism and Film Theory: Beyond a Legacy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, ed. Kyle Stevens (New York: Oxford…

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Victor Fan, “Laborer’s Love: An Anthropotechnogenetic Mediation between Cinematism and Animetism,” Journal of Chinese Film Studies 2, no. 2 (November…

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Victor Fan, “Interbeing,” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, 13 March 2023.

Victor Fan, “Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in Classical Hong Kong Cinema,” Concentric 49, no. 1 (March 2023): 27–47. Code-switching and -mixing…

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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…

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Elena Gorfinkel, “Conjuring the cinematic pissoir,” World Picture 14 “Spell” (Autumn 2023).

A new chapter by Catherine Wheatley published as part of a volume on the value of film spectatorship.

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A new chapter by Sarah Cooper on film spectatorship in the era of Covid-19.

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Jinhee Choi, “Vessels and Cargos: Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in Johnnie To’s Drug War and Lee Hae-young’s remake Believer.”…

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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.

Chris Kennedy, “Platform, Showcase, Gathering, Exchange: A Conversation about Film Festivals with Erika Balsom, George Clark, Chris Kennedy, Eduardo Thomas,…

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Michele Pierson, “Feminist Filmmaking from the Ground Up: Three Films from the 1980s,” in A Companion to Experimental Cinema, edited…

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Alice Haylett Bryan, “‘Weird’ Sex Scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos,” in The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos : Films, Form, Philosophy, edited by…

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Savina Petkova, “Dog, Lobster, Deer, Rabbit: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Animal Metaphors,” in The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos : Films, Form, Philosophy, edited…

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Sarah Cooper, “Decolonial Gesture and the Screening of the Botanical Artist in Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (Bo Wang and Pan…

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Chris Holliday, “Tim Burton’s Unruly Animation,” in Tim Burton’s Bodies: Gothic, Animated, Corporeal and Creaturely, edited by Frances Pheasant-Kelly and…

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Chris Holliday, “Aardman’s Animal Farm: “Loaded” Livestock and Illustrative Aesthetics in Shaun the Sheep (2007–),” in Children, Youth, and International…

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Chris Holliday, “Retroframing the Future: Digital De-aging Technologies in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema,” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61,…

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Chris Holliday, “Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Rhythmanalysis,” in ReFocus: The Films of…

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Rosalind Galt, and Annette-Carina van der Zaag, “C’est Grave: Raw, Cannibalism, And the Racialising Logic of White Feminism,” Journal of…

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Rosalind Galt, “The Spirits of African Cinema: Redemptive Aesthetics in Mati Diop’s Atlantics,” Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism, no.…

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Elena Gorfinkel, “Cinema of the Grandmother” in Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, eds. Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg (London:…

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Yung-Hang Lai, “Wang Baoqiang: the Man-Child Bumpkin in Chinese Comedy Films,” Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 12/13 (2022).…

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Elena Gorfinkel, “Adoption: Wayward Faces,” The Criterion Collection, Adoption DVD/Bluray liner essay, March 2022.

Elena Gorfinkel, “Regions of Eccentricity: Penny Allen’s Property (1978)” & director Q&A, Architecture on Film, Architecture Foundation, London , March…

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Elena Gorfinkel, “Portals of Deliquescence,” Second Run DVD, Luminous Procuress DVD liner essayMay 30 2022. 

Elena Gorfinkel, “weary of the screen: Lucy Clout’s nocturnal thinking,” LUX Moving Image, July 12 2022 (exhibition essay).

Elena Gorfinkel, “Who’s afraid of Doris Wishman?” Artforum, September 12 2022.

Elena Gorfinkel, “Energetics and Erotics: On Schneemann’s Cinema,” in Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, eds. Lotte Johnson & Chris Bayley, (New…

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Victor Fan, “From Extraterritoriality to Extratemporality: Contemporary Media and Politics in Hong Kong,” in The Routledge Companion to Media and…

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The most recent articles, book chapters, catalogue entries, and video essays by staff and students in the Film Department at King’s College London

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The most recent articles, book chapters, catalogue entries, and video essays by staff in the Film Department at King’s College London

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