Culture Is Not Innocent: An Interview with Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto discusses her new book on pop culture from the Global South, which goes above and beyond, among other things, the "sluggish, bloated, less urgent" films dominating Hollywood.
John A. Riley
John A. Riley works at SolBridge International School of Business in Daejeon, South Korea, where he coordinates the school's liberal arts program, and also teaches drama and film studies. Since receiving his PhD in film studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, he has published articles and book chapters on the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and the revived Twin Peaks TV series. His book The Strickland Continuum, about the films of Peter Strickland, is due to be published in 2023. When not working he is involved in amateur theatre; his first play The End of the Pier Show was performed in Daejeon in June 2019.
Why Do We Travel? On Erika Fatland’s ‘Sovietistan’
Social anthropologist Erika Fatland eschews many of the clichés of Post-Soviet travel writing, providing an incident-packed trip to a vast, often-overlooked region in Sovietistan.
On Difficulties with Acculturation in ‘From Chernobyl with Love’
Journalist Katya Cengel's memoir, From Chernobyl with Love, is more illuminating of the American mindset than it is of Latvia and Ukraine.
‘Room to Dream’, in which David Lynch Has a Conversation with His Own Biography
Room to Dream brims with detail but the real David Lynch remains elusive.
‘Arcadia’ Fashions a Creepy Collage from Archive Footage of Britain’s Countryside
Folk horror, hauntology, and archive footage combine to form an unsettling portrait of rural Britain.
‘The Prisoner’ Has Superbly Outlived Its Original Context
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