Cinema and Piracy

What do piracy and new technologies mean for cinema? With the decline of movie theatres and the emergence of new digital media over the past few decades, concerns over the death of cinema and cinephilia have be...

When folks inquire about my research on Second Indochina War cinemas, they usually ask where they can watch the movies I am analysing. “YouTube” I would answer, and they would laugh. It is true and it is odd. F...

In Latin American countries, piracy has been a way to access films for different audiences since VHS technology became popular. Piracy has been equally relevant to elite filmmakers interested in particular titl...

I grew up in a provincial city in Northeast China, and before the internet age, my main way of exploring the world outside the city was through television. However, most of the time, the television in our livin...

Pirated films found a place in the social and cultural sphere of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh during the 1980s. State controlling the access to and the viewing of films is nothing new. As Amos Vogel stat...

The Cold War and American influence on the socio-political context of postwar Italy was seen on small screens and the big screen. These agents fostered anti-communist sentiment in the second half of the 20th ce...

Borrowed, remixed, archival, or appropriated images and sounds that are used to build found footage montages have the potential to create counter narratives that disrupt the illusion of a dominant, homogenous s...