In 1975, Laura Mulvey published a ground-breaking essay introducing the idea of the male gaze. Her essay developed ideas from Freud about the concept of Scopophilia: “taking other people as objects, subjecting them to a controlling curious gaze” (Mulvey, 1975, p. 59)...

Get Out has many strong visual metaphors and recurring motifs throughout that make it such a multi-layered and complex piece made better with each rewatch. Lenika Cruz points out that , “Jordan Peele uses the sense of sight to amplify imbalances of power and control...

Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008) is an interesting take on political war cinema, adopting an animated approach to tell the stories of the invasion of Lebanon by Israel in an attempt touncover Folman’s real role in the Sabra and Shatila massacre...

Abu-Assad has stated that his film was “simply meant to open a discussion” about the conflict between Israel and Palestine through the story of two suicide bombers. Rather than taking sides, Assad claims his aim was to create something that would allow for meaningful discussion... 

It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) was one of the first screwball comedy films. While exploring complex issues of class and gender, Capra tells the story of a rich heiress who, having escaped her controlling father  undertakes a journey to New York where she meets a working-class reporter...

‘Screwball heroines rarely miss the point. Screwball heroes, on the other hand, often do. But screwball was a special kind of women’s game, nearly always favouring the heroine to win. It began more or less as a response to these heroines – that sort of woman star who was funny and glamorous...