Review – Mrs Robinson
This celebratory biographical account presents successes and controversies encountered over Mary Robinson’s career in an honest and open, if sometimes impersonal, way.
UK-China Film Exchange: Cultural Relations in a Competitive Age
In light of an ever more political path in the Chinese film industry, co-productions create a space for different narratives to circulate in China.
Reflecting on Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’
It is a credit to Branagh’s mastery of memory, empathy and incantation that his film portrays so accurately that conflict begins and ends around the home.
Sensible Politics: Expanding from Visual IR to Multisensory Politics
Sensible Politics aims to decenter our understanding of international politics by expanding to include the visual and the multisensory, and expanding from Eurocentric investigations of visual IR.
Review – Seeing Politics
Using narrative feature film as a method of co-production, Harman brings feminist and decolonial works into conversation with the visual and aesthetic turns in IR.
Interview – Sophie Harman
Sophie Harman spoke to us about her BAFTA nominated film Pili, film as a research method, issues in global health governance and agency in feminist decolonial research.
Review – Brexit: The Uncivil War
This drama speaks to the divide between old and new politics, civility and hatred, and largely succeeds in a balanced critique of both the Leave and Remain campaigns.
Aquaman: a New Year Parable In Race and Ethnicity
The recent Hollywood adaptation of Aquaman provides an important metaphor for racial conflict, and a timely talking point in modern society.
Fiction, Film & Empiricism: Comparative Politics as Action and Adventure
Works of art in novels, classic travelogues, and film have a strong, evocative power for students of comparative politics.
Review – Lupe Under the Sun
Director Rodrigo Reyes’ film portrays a realist yet dreamlike exploration of the everyday activities of an ageing undocumented Mexican labourer in the United States.
