The cinematic viewing experience and the dream states have a comparable quality. Waking Life is an interesting and perplexing film about dreams and the nature of reality, that dares us to question whether we are dreaming or awake.
The last masterclass of Jan Blommaert on Language X Power X Activism. A must-see for all academics and activists interested in language, power, ideology and antiracism.
This essay explores the confusion that was ignited by the film I'm Still Here (2010) by analysing its form, purpose and content and comparing it to other forms of film.
The Oscar-nominated documentary 'Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom' aims at showing the revolution in Kyiv by applying truthful and staged elements as a method to represent political discourse.
Julian Barnes’ The Man in the Red Coat: Celebrity Culture in the Belle Epoque (Julian Barnes)
Review
Odile Heynders
10/04/2020
8 minutes to read
In his latest novel, Julian Barnes combines biography, art history and cultural analysis in a hybrid form of fact and fiction. The Man in the Red Coat showsthat there is much real life in literature and much fiction in reality.
Shirkers (2018) is a documentary about athe mysterious personal experience of Sandi Tan, the filmmaker herself. Based on cognitive frame, this paper analyzes the textual, contextual, and real-world referential signals of 'Shirkers' (2018).
The documentary is both a bold political statement and a direct experience of European borders that helps to shape a more positive attitude toward refugees.
