It is difficult to overstate the impact the British journal Screen has had on the discipline of film and television studies. For the past 50 years, the journal has consistently been at the centre of debates around how we watch, why we watch, and what all this watching actually means. Moreover, when it came to [...]
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Alex Ling
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Alex Ling teaches in the Cinema Studies Department at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on film and philosophy and is the author of Badiou and Cinema (forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press).
Articles by Alex Ling:
The relationship of cinema to politics has a rich and chequered history, effectively dictating the form of many of cinema’s most vibrant configurations (Russian cinema in the wake of the 1917 revolution, Italian neorealism after the Second World War…). The real stakes of the affair however were perhaps most clearly spelt out in France in [...]

