Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“… In this piece, I examine the role of authority in Yorùbá society and how au[1]thority is subverted by moral conflicts generated in the political evolution of the Yorùbá state from city state to empire, leading to disastrous consequences in the society at large as presented in the films of Adébáyọ Fálétí, specifically in Àfọnjá (2002), Basọrun Gáà (2004) and Ṣawo Ṣẹgbẹ ̀ rì̀ (2005). …”
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Déjouer le spectacle de la violence. Représenter les événements du 11 septembre 2001 by Bertrand GERVAIS

“…Michal Kosakowski gives a complementary strategy of this erasure in his film Just Like the Movies. His 21 minutes film is an extraordinary example of "found footage," which brings together excerpts from Hollywood films, more precisely Hollywood blockbusters and disaster movies. …”
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