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Category: Essay

Metropolis: An Illustration of the Consequences of Modernity

October 14, 2019 hudmoura

by April Chin Modernization is the transition from a pre-modernistic, agrarian, to an industrialized, ‘modern’ society. Societies grow and evolve…

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Posted in: Essay, Politics & Film Filed under: April Chin, Fritz Lang, Metropolis

Obesity and Politics

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by Christian Zanetti Everyone in today’s society hopes to live a healthy and happy life, nevertheless, people are constantly looking…

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Posted in: Essay, Politics & Film Filed under: Christian Zanetti, Morgan Spurlock, obesity, Super Size Me

Poverty, Anti-Western Beliefs, and the Bloody Communist Movement of Jakarta: Indonesia in the 20th Century

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by Stefanie Malandrino In the 20th century, Indonesia was most definitely among economic inflation and political catastrophe which contributed to the…

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Posted in: Essay, Politics & Film Filed under: dictatorship, Indonesia, jornalism, Peter Weir, Stefanie Malandrino, The Year of Living Dangerously

Nothingness in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer

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by Reem Al Mousawi According to Andras B. Kovacs’ Screening Modernism, the concept of nothingness is “a series of everyday situations…

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Posted in: Essay, Philosophy & Film Filed under: Alex Rivera, András Bálint Kovács, Film and Philosophy, modernism, nothingness, Reem Al Mousawi, Sleep Dealer

Sleep Dealer as a modern melodrama

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by Keifer Wiseman In Chapter five of Andras Balint Kovacs’ book Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema, he puts forth his view…

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Posted in: Essay, Philosophy & Film Filed under: Alex Rivera, András Bálint Kovács, Film and Philosophy, Keifer Wiseman, Sleep Dealer

Nothingness as the human experience of being

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by Jessica Tremblay Alex Rivera’s 2008 film Sleep Dealer has everything to do with nothing. Or to put it more precisely, the…

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Posted in: Essay, Philosophy & Film Filed under: Alex Rivera, András Bálint Kovács, Film and Philosophy, Jessica Tremblay, Sleep Dealer

Node Life: Nothingness in Sleep Dealer

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by Ola Jayzeh Al-Hallak Technology has changed our lives greatly. We no longer use it just to aid us at…

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Posted in: Essay, Philosophy & Film Filed under: Alex Rivera, András Bálint Kovács, Film, Film and Philosophy, Modernity, nothingness, Ola Jayzeh Al-Hallak, Philosophy, Sleep Dealer

Nature and Transhumanism in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer

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by Kiel Longboat Human beings are becoming dangerously dependent on technology. Many people say they cannot live without their cell…

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Posted in: Essay, Philosophy & Film Filed under: Alex Rivera, András Bálint Kovács, Kiel Longboat, Sleep Dealer

Tropa de Elite 2: O narrador da verdade

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by Kierra Leyco Tropa de Elite: O Inimigo Agora É Outro (José Padilha, 2010) conta a história do Capitão Roberto Nascimento que…

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Posted in: Brazilian Cinema, Essay Filed under: Brazilian Culture, narrador, Violence

Ricardo Reis’ Trajectory at the Hands of José Saramago

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by Cristina Gonçalves O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis (The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis) is a novel…

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Posted in: Essay, Portuguese Literature Filed under: Cristina Gonçalves, Fernando Pessoa, Jose Saramago, Portuguese Literature

Intermedias Review

October 9, 2019 hudmoura

Media, Art, and Culture ISSN 1918-4026 Intermedias Review is an independent publication based on reviews of art, media, and their interconnections. We…

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Posted in: Art Review, Book Review, Brazilian Cinema, Brazilian Literature, Brazilian Theatre, Essay, Film Review, Interview, Media & Politics, Philosophy & Film, Politics & Film, Portuguese Literature, Review, Screening & Debate

A Regression from Deleuze’s Time-Image to the Movement-Image in Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation

May 2, 2011 hudmoura

by Morgan O’Reilly ‘Adaptation’ is a film about the writing of its own screenplay, which was meant to be an…

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Posted in: Essay, Philosophy & Film Filed under: Adaptation, Charlie Kaufman, Gilles Deleuze, Morgan O’Reilly

Art and public global protest

April 20, 2011 hudmoura

I strongly agree with many of the perceptions towards both the global art market and the political economy discussed in…

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Posted in: Essay

Ghost Country

October 18, 2010 hudmoura

Strange things are happening at Uncle Boonmee’s farm in the lush greenery of Thailand’s countryside.  The ghost of his dead…

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Posted in: Essay

Living Memories

October 15, 2010 hudmoura

In what is amongst the best collections of short films at VIFF 2010, ‘Acquired Trait’ deals with memories.  Like ripples…

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Posted in: Essay

Japanovation

October 14, 2010 hudmoura

Quick—who is the greatest inventor who ever lived? Edison? Tesla? Frink? How about Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu? Never heard of him?…

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Posted in: Essay

Heavensent

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“If the work of an isolated little old woman on the edge of nowhere is too modern for the Canadian…

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A Merging of Dream and Reality

October 12, 2010 hudmoura

A shotgun shatters the silence of the countryside in China, forcing European artist Thomas to dive for cover.  This begins…

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An Unflinching Look At War

October 9, 2010 hudmoura

It is 2009 in Southern Afghanistan and fresh recruits are flown into forwarding base Armadillo as missiles fire periodically at…

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A Niagara of ‘what if’s

October 8, 2010 hudmoura

No hint of a plotline sullies Amazon Falls. Twenty years ago Jana starred as a curvy, big-boobed warrior princess on…

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Posted in: Essay

Naughty and sensual Snow White

October 4, 2010 hudmoura

The fog from a smoke machine rolls across the stage as the black veiled queen dies giving birth to Snow…

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Posted in: Essay

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