Drawing on and responding to the writings of theorists such as Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed,
Lauren Berlant, and Lisa Lowe, this book proposes the notion of “precarious intimacies” to …

This paper is focused on the meaning of the artist's 'theatre of violence'and self-sacrifice in
Charlie Brooker's The National Anthem (2011), a parable of power and resistance in the age …

In this article, I argue for the relevance of Eastern European cinema dealing with the robot
revolution in the context of Romanian communism. I aim to fill a gap in the literature by …

The concept of the postsecular has a wide range of formulations and applications across
highly diverse disciplines and fields of inquiry, such as cinema studies (Bradatan and …

The Dardenne Brothers' Cinematic Parables examines the work of Belgian filmmakers Jean-
Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who have been celebrated for their powerfully affecting social …

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is remembered as one of Russia's most influential and
celebrated filmmakers. Over the course of his career he released seven feature films: Ivan's …

year earlier. At the end of DW Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, two pairs of
honeymooning lovers sit atop a tall bluff and gaze wistfully upon the apocalypse. At this …

Michel Houellebecq has, I argue, changed significantly his portrayal of Islam: in earlier
novels, he advances a hostile view of it premised on the secularist belief in the death of God …

In this article, I combine political philosophy and film to examine the problematic of the
'mystical'foundation of authority and democracy as represented in The Man Who Shot …

In this article, I argue that Agustí Villaronga's 2021 film El ventre del mar (The Belly of the
Sea) explores a post-Fanonian version of the Hegelian master-slave dialectic as a historical …