Ziad Shihab

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Rift Valley

Rift Valley SimpCSourceURL: https://refind.com/links/141565788?via=refind RefindWe are restless even in death. Entombed in stone, our most distant ancestors still travel along Earth’s subterranean passageways. One of them, a man in his 20s, began his journey around 230,000 years ago after collapsing into marshland on the lush edge of a river delta feeding a vast lake in East Africa’s Rift Valley. He became the earth in which he lay as nutrients leached from his body and his bone minerali...

Feminist Film Theory 101: Defining The Male Gaze – In Their Own League

Defining The Male Gaze – In Their Own League The Male Gaze is a buzzword that seems to get thrown around all the time, but what does it mean and is it still relevant today? Well, as part of our new feature ‘Feminist Film Theory 101’ we will be breaking down the defintion of the male gaze and examining how the male gaze still dominates popular culture today. It’s been over 40 years since the film critic Laura Mulvey first coined the term male gaze, in her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrat...

A silence that escapes, how it plagues my wandering thought (idea) by hamster bong - Everything2.com

A silence that escapes, how it plagues my wandering thought (idea) See all of A silence that escapes, how it plagues my wandering thought, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by hamster bong (3.7 d) Rep: 20 ( +27 / -7 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jul 24 2000 at 22:00:38 a broken heart is more beautiful to me and you, as a weeping mess, i find it drawing they called it gorgeous tragedy when the brightness left your eyes and the glow about your person slipped away still i could no...

Sundance Dispatch 2: Whose Gaze?

This article appeared in the January 27, 2022 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes, 2022) Brainwashed, a new documentary from California Institute of the Arts professor and filmmaker Nina Menkes (Queen of Diamonds) that premiered at Sundance last weekend, aims to make American cinema a more hospitable place for women who conceive, ...