Student Charity Fundraiser Screening for Switchboard UK
Sam Williams This May, as part of a charity fundraiser for Switchboard UK, York St. John’s Film Society held a screening of Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) in collaboration with the Cinema and Social Justice Project. Despite the setting of Babbit’s film, a conversion therapy camp, But I’m a Cheerleader was chosen for this screening due to its uplifting nature, and…
Reimagining Justice Through Survivor-Led Cinema: The Tale (2018) and The Meeting (2018)
Dr Zoë Asser, Dr Melody House, Dr Ankita Mishra, Dr Tokoni Uti The last few years have seen an uptick in media discussions regarding sexual violence against women. This has been spurred partially by high-profile legal cases such as the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, as well as the incarceration of rapper Sean…
Shifting the Frame: Women and Authority in Japanese Cinema
Aleix Rodríguez Gracia Japanese cinema travels easily across borders. Its auteurs circulate through Cannes, Venice, and Berlin; its studios command global visibility; its aesthetics are meticulously studied and archived. From afar, it presents itself as a tradition of striking internal consistency, one that has absorbed modern transformations while maintaining a distinct cultural lineage. Such consistency…
Unlikely Superstars: Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Greer Garson and Madame Curie (1943)
Peter Krämer Madame Curie (1943) was the first ever Hollywood movie about a major female scientist. Indeed, the film’s subject is the most famous of all female scientists, and the woman playing her in the film was Hollywood’s biggest star at that time. Born in 1867 in Warsaw as Maria Salomea Skłodowska, the woman who came to be…
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