For film fans, January is a busy month. In addition to ceremonies like the SAG Awards, the Critics’ Choices Awards, and the Golden Globes, there is also the announcing of the Academy Award nominations. Because of all this, instead of doing the usual Monthly Movie Round-Up, we at A Place for Film thought that we… Read more »
Guest post by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed and Svitlana Melnyk. In 2018 the Dovzhenko Film Studios (Kyiv, Ukraine) celebrates its 90th anniversary. Organized during the Soviet period and named after the Ukrainian film producer Oleksandr Dovzhenko in 1957, it contributed to the versatile development of Soviet cinematography. A production place for such masterpieces as Earth (1930) and White… Read more »
Guest post by John Finch, PhD, Associate Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and Lecturer of East Asian Languages and Cultures. It would be difficult to pick a more timely movie to include in a series about the Cultural Foundations for Peace than As One (2012). In the past year, uncertainty about peace in the… Read more »
Guest post by Timothy L. Fort, PhD, JD, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics, and Professor of Business Law & Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. While it is true that governments negotiate peace treaties and maintain balances of power that relate to issues of war and peace, peacebuilding may also result… Read more »
Guest post by Joan Hawkins, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. It’s hard for people coming up now to understand how important movies were in the 1960s. 1968 especially. 1968 was a year of international revolution. It was the year of the Chicago Democratic Convention; Prague Spring and the subsequent Soviet… Read more »
Guest post by Terri Francis. African Diaspora cinemas and experimental films are established galaxies of research and creative endeavor, but rarely do they overlap in our everyday sense of things, despite a substantial and growing number of relevant and prominent artists and scholars whose work requires just such a comparative approach. You have to go… Read more »