This world is becoming more of an accepting community, for the reason being that people began to learn to accept that everyone is equal despite their sexuality. For ongoing years, both of the LGBTQ and black community suffer discrimination because others (mainly white bourgeois males) fear them. They fear how different they are and see …
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Belonging to a Muslim Counter-Public
For the last few weeks, I have been wondering how to connect to the material we’ve been discussing in class. It was the discussion of Catherine Squires’ paper on Counter Republics and her definitions pertaining to minority groups, that I realized that I too belong to what may be considered a counter public. In her …
The Perceptions of the Public Sphere and the Early and Late Cinema
The renowned film historian, Miriam Hansen, wrote an article entitled Early cinema, late cinema: Permutations of the Public sphere in the year 1993. In this article she highlighted the changes that occurred in the cinematic entertainment industry and how the concept of public sphere transformed within this period of time. Hansen identifies key economic and …
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How Bazin’s view on film festivals has not changed in over 50 years.
The renowned French critic Andre Bazin, wrote an article in his Cahiers du cinema in 1955 titled The Festival viewed as a religious order. Here, Mr. Bazin showcases two of his intellectual knowledges. One is the catholic faith (as he himself was a catholic); and the other, film festivals. Bazin will use the term ‘religious …
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The Boringest Movie I’ve Ever Watched: Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I
As a film student you would expect me to have watched a numerous amount of movies. Unfortunately that isn’t the case. Don’t get me wrong I watch a movie almost every day, but it takes a special kind of film for me to lose interest. Emptiness is more emotion than physical “Does it protect you …
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The Black Public Sphere
Counter-Publics and Differences – Week 3 “The term “public sphere” refers to a set of physical or mediated spaces where people can gather and share information, debate opinions, and tease out their political interests and social needs with other participants” (448). -Catherine R. Squires Thirty years is a long time and a lot can happen …
Black Men Loving Black Men is A Revolutionary Act
From Tongues Untied to Moonlight; reaching, pulling, grabbing, and snatching what’s their’s – from the universe.
FILM 3610G - CINEMATIC PUBLICS & PARTICIPATIONS: MOVEMENTS, MANIFESTOS, FILM FESTIVALS, COLLECTIVES 