Monday, 11 March 2013

The Price of Sex (Chakarova, 2011)

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JACK BRINDELLI The opening of The Price of Sex hits you hard like a punch to the gut. “What were the first words [of English y...
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Friday, 21 December 2012

On Women and Turkish Cinema

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EYLEM ATAKAV  @eylematakav Earlier in November my book Women and Turkish Cinema was published by Routledge . Here, I ...
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Why 'Mamma Mia!' matters

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MELANIE WILLIAMS Since this week sees the publication of my co-edited (with Louise FitzGerald) volume on the much maligned, but also mu...
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Thursday, 1 November 2012

Revisiting Ealing's women

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MELANIE WILLIAMS In connection with the publication of a new book Ealing Revisited , it seems like a good moment to look back at th...
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Sunday, 5 August 2012

‘Imagine someone who lives with a secret her entire life’: Violence, ‘Honour’, Rape and Women in Duma (Abeer Zeibak Haddad, 2011)

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EYLEM ATAKAV (@eylematakav)  Duma  is an extremely powerful documentary by Abeer Zeibak Haddad. It is regarded as the first ev...
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Lucy Lumsden: A New Television Auteur?

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SARAH RALPH Who is the auteur of a TV series? Is it the director? The writer? The producer?   A show might use a number of direct...
Thursday, 12 July 2012

The discreet harm of the bourgeoisie: Archipelago (Joanna Hogg, 2010)

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MELANIE WILLIAMS The director who seems to best understand the English bourgeoisie at this moment in time is Joanna Hogg. Her films U...
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