Tag: Films
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Witches, lesbians and Blackness: Queering Wicked
I’m not a big fan of musicals, but my kids really wanted to watch the new film Wicked so off we went to see the Wizard. Upon leaving the cinema though I admit to not just being taken in by the emotive, searing musical numbers, and the glittering and quite…
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Woody, a fascist: A contemporary reading of Toy Story
Toy Story is a fantastic film, let me say that straight away. Indeed, the first 3 films are considered one of the finest trilogies in all cinematic history and there is no doubting that they have had a profound effect on many people all over the world. And yes, Woody…
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Exploring Blackness of the Inner City: A Review of Netflix’s “The Kitchen”
As an urban geography professor, there are some films that are so on the nose with regard the themes that pervade my teaching and research encounters that they demand a closer inspection: and Netflix’s The Kitchen by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya is one such film. Set in a near…
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Visualising Cities: Part 3 – “…starring, Sydney as Nowhere in Particular…”
Carrying on my series of visualising cities (see Part 1 and Part 2), I wanted to focus on one of my specialist cities…. No doubt you have all seen the Matrix films, and no doubt you would have recognised the fact that it was Sydney in the background, playing the…
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Visualising Cities: Part 2
Having described how I think that the image of a city in film can be an interesting and alternative way of capturing its complexity in a previous blog entry, I wanted to elaborate this idea after some interesting comments, most notably from my brother (cheap plug coming up), who hosts…
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Visualising Cities: Part 1
Cities are portrayed in films and television programs in differing ways, with the more acute filmmakers, casting the city as another character in the film – in some cases giving the city a narrative or human characteristics (Frank Miller’s Sin City immediately springs to mind). This, while making good story…
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