Author Dimitrios Latsis

Dimitrios Latsis

Dimitrios Latsis is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Iowa. He holds a BA in Film/Video from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in Cinema Studies from King's College London. His interests lie in the rapport of philosophical thought with film (especially phenomenology), of film with other arts and in visual perception. He is currently working on a dissertation concerning the role of natural landscape in American Cinema before WWII for which he has been awarded a CIC-Smithsonian predoctoral fellowship to the Smithonian Museum of American Art and the National Museum of American History. His work has been published in Refractory (U Melbourne), Intermedialités (U Montreal), The Irish Review and is forthcoming in October (MIT Press), Amerikastudien/American Studies and The British Journal of Phenomenology. He has presented work in numerous conferences in the fields of Film Studies (SCMS), American Studies (ASA) and Art History (CAA).

Angela Dalle Vacche (ed), Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls?

Dimitrios Latsis

March 2013

Book Reviews

Film, Art, New Media A salient characteristic of theoretical discourse in any field is its cyclical nature. Debates of one generation of theorists are mirrored in their time’s scholarship, then temporarily ...

We (Still) Need a Woman for the Job: The Warrior Woman, Feminism and Cinema in the Digital Age

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

The Gleaners and Varda: The 2013 AFI FEST & American Film Market

The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID

Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

Lest We Forget: the 31st FID Marseille

A Vitalising Cinema in an Agitated Age: The 58th New York Film Festival

Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience

Your Daughters Come Back to You: The 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival

The Perfect Conditional: Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

War, Community, and the Cinema: Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy by Hermann Kappelhof and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan

The Restless Spectator: Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, by Sarah Keller

Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar

Reagan at the Movies: Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, by J. Hoberman

“The temperate zone’: Humphrey Jennings’ Words for Battle

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

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Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

Angela Dalle Vacche (ed), Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls?