This article explores the documentation of trans activism in France and Spain since the 2000s. The first part addresses questions surrounding the place of affect and narrative in documentary film, particularly in ...

Chantal Akerman was 18 when she made her first film, Saute ma ville (1968). In it, her young body sings loudly and tunelessly, while she eats pasta, covers her shoes, socks, and legs in thick black boot polish, floods the ...

This article explores the co-constitution of autism in the twentieth century with a normative concept of gesture and body language. As an archive of bodies in movement, cinema provides a database of gestures, their changing ...

© 2016 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. I present my theory of a 'meta-hegemony' to examine the hierarchy of dominance in Indian cinema. This concept asserts that Bollywood dominates Indian cinema and culture whilst ...

This book anaylses their significnace through a range of approaches drawn from the fields of Film Studies, Philosophy, Cultural History, Fashion, Cultural Studies and Politics.