Mar 04
Author: Kenneth Norwood Isaac Julienâs Looking for Langston (1989) makes me cry every time I watch it. My first time seeing it was in the Lincoln Centre in New York Cityâ privatelyâon a 35-mm reel via a projector. As it clicked and fluttered away in the darkness, spitting out visual poetry of black and white …
Feb 25
Ivor Novello was the biggest male star of British cinema in the 1920s and early 1930s, starring in 22 films in a career that spanned 1919 to 1934. The handsome Cardiff-born star â with his celebrated âclassic profileâ â first rose to fame in 1914 as the composer of hit WWI anthem, âKeep the Home …
May 01
This collection concerns the importance of journey narratives to cinema. It charts the importance of journeying as a motif of transformation and as component of a world subject to flows of migration, globalization, and the redrawing of boundaries across the history of the last century and more. It considers space as a dynamic aspect of …
Apr 04
The University of Southampton Student Film Festival is a student-led festival showcasing the best films that our students have to offer. Running since 2016, every year the event gets bigger and better! This year we had an incredible 33 films submitted, with 15 being chosen for the shortlist and shown at the festival, including comedies, …
Jan 29
The Escape, which was released in 2018 in the UK, tells the story of a woman who seems to have it all â a nice house, a handsome husband and two wonderful children. However, this life isnât what Tara (Gemma Arterton) wants anymore and she starts to lose herself while caring for everyone else. The …
Aug 13
Ăngeles MartĂnez-GarcĂa and Antonio Gomez-Aguilar, University of Seville. Visiting Scholars at the University of Southampton. July, 2018. The Spanish director J. A. Bayona´s cinema belongs to that group of productions that has taken the Spanish cinema outside its borders in the new millennium. His three films have beaten box office records and are the reason …
Jul 30
Ăngeles MartĂnez-GarcĂa and Antonio Gomez-Aguilar, University of Seville. Visiting Scholars at the University of Southampton. July, 2018. Why do people feel so engaged with cinema? One of the main reasons is that cinema often feeds from ancestral stories that can really hit home. Ancient stories can be found everywhere, although we cannot always see them …
Feb 13
90 years ago, on 9 February 1928, the remarkable First World War drama, The Guns of Loos, received its press screening in London. Trade journal, The Bioscope, declared the film to be âas convincing a picture of modern warfare as has yet been shown on the screenâ. Coinciding with this anniversary, and as part of …
Feb 09
The recent critical acclaim and commercial success of the video game Cuphead (2017) has not only drawn new attention to the 1920s and 1930s animated cartoons the gameâs visual style is inspired by, but has also provoked new scrutiny of the âRacist spectreâ of the imagery it uses. By mimicking the style of animation seen …
Dec 08
In 2011 the Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke produced an internet-based series of advertisements titled Words of a Journey (2011) for the whiskey manufacturer Johnnie Walker. In these advertisements, the figure of the entrepreneur is prominent. Figure 1: Jonnie Walker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EpS_s9-IQU&index=12&list=PLAAAAE4C15D9A2A75) In the series, the interviewees narrate stories of success through adversity, and stress their determination, …