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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

June 17, 2025
Ishani Routh
When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

June 17, 2025
Ajay Rahul Raja
The Crime Behind The Curtain: Looking Back at โ€˜Yavanika,โ€™ a Cinematic Masterpieceย 

The Crime Behind The Curtain: Looking Back at โ€˜Yavanika,โ€™ a Cinematic Masterpieceย 

June 16, 2025
Vaishnavi S
Stolen (2025) movie

Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out

June 15, 2025
Ayan Dawn
Characterising the Space: The Cinematic Space as the Protagonist in โ€˜Laila Aur Satt Geetโ€™

Characterising the Space: The Cinematic Space as the Protagonist in โ€˜Laila Aur Satt Geetโ€™ (The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs, 2020)

June 15, 2025
Sahil
The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame
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The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame

Gentrit Miftari June 9, 2025June 10, 2025
Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes
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Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes

Santosh Kumar Mamgain June 7, 2025June 8, 2025
What โ€˜Havocโ€™ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?
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What โ€˜Havocโ€™ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?

Ritesh Sharma June 7, 2025June 7, 2025

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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced
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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

Ishani Routh June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™
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When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

Ajay Rahul Raja June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
Stolen (2025) movie
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Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out

Ayan Dawn June 15, 2025June 15, 2025

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Far From Heaven
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On Race Relations & Queerness in Todd Haynesโ€™ Far From Heaven (2002)

April 12, 2023
Jeffrey Davies
Man On A Swing
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Searching for the Local รœbermencsch: Joel Grey in โ€˜Man on a Swingโ€™ (1974)

April 12, 2023
Vassilis Kroustallis
Rosemary's Baby 1968
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Rosemaryโ€™s Baby (1968): Rethinking the Monstrous Mother in Popular Culture

March 30, 2023
Ankita Sen
End of Bond era - Pierce Brosnan & Daniel Craig
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You Only Live Once? How Creative Fatigue Plagued the End of the Bond Eras of Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig

March 22, 2023
Josรฉphine des Aulnois
Richsploitation - Luis Bunuel
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Charting the Rise of โ€˜Richsploitationโ€™: The Genre You Donโ€™t Know You Love

March 21, 2023
Elliott Kendal
Woman with a Movie Camera
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Women behind the Camera: Examining Space and Gender in Woman with a Movie Camera (2022)

March 19, 2023
Krishnanunni Padinjassery
Memories of Murder
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How Chaos Prevails Over Order in Bong Joon Hoโ€™s Memories of Murder

March 11, 2023
Aravind Nair
Nirmalyam
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50 Years of Nirmalyam (1973): Timeless, Introspective, and Radical

March 9, 2023
Krishnanunni Padinjassery
Charlotte Wells Aftersun (2022) - Memory and Imagination
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Aftersun (2022) As A Tale of Aching (Re)Memory and Imagination

March 3, 2023
Purusharth Chawla
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Minari (2020) as More than Just a Family Drama: An Interpretation of the Film’s Marxist Themes

March 2, 2023
Shivani Muralikrishna

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Succession & The Brilliant Execution of Inevitability: How This Prestige Drama’s Overarching Themes Came Full Circle in Its Final Episode
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Succession & The Brilliant Execution of Inevitability: How This Prestige Drama’s Overarching Themes Came Full Circle in Its Final Episode

Aryan Vyas June 10, 2023

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Hey Ram (2000): The Art of Semi-fiction
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Gitesh Chand Maurya June 9, 2023

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Tangled in Nostalgia’s Embrace: Boys Over Flowers’ Struggles Against Sands Of Time
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Tangled in Nostalgia’s Embrace: Boys Over Flowers’ Struggles Against Sands Of Time

Sanghavi P.S May 28, 2023

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How Volver (2006) Became Pedro Almodรณvarโ€™s Most Revolutionary Film?
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How Volver (2006) Became Pedro Almodรณvarโ€™s Most Revolutionary Film?

Sofia Sheehan May 23, 2023

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The Psychology Behind Our Love for True Crime Documentaries: Exploring the Fascination
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The Psychology Behind Our Love for True Crime Documentaries: Exploring the Fascination

Aravind Nair July 14, 2023

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Why Carrie Fisher Was Such An Icon On And Off The Big Screen
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Why Carrie Fisher Was Such An Icon On And Off The Big Screen

Jerry Horne July 19, 2023

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Succession: How “America Decides” Deconstructs Corporatocracy With A Waking Nightmare
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Succession: How “America Decides” Deconstructs Corporatocracy With A Waking Nightmare

Aryan Vyas May 19, 2023

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The Eternal Daughter (2022): When the Haunt is Within Us.
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The Eternal Daughter (2022): When the Haunt is Within Us.

Ketan Koparkar May 18, 2023

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The Conversation (1974) – The Weaponization of Paranoia through Film Imagery
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The Conversation (1974) – The Weaponization of Paranoia through Film Imagery

Arnav Srivastav May 3, 2023

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