A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the Culture of Working-Class Politics: The Aesthetics and Activism of Amber Film and Photography Collective and the Berwick Street Film Coll... by Jessica Williams Boyall

“…By engaging in a comparative reading, I highlight the breadth of Amber’s oeuvre, tracing the development of their filmmaking strategies—which included agitprop, the fusion of factual and fictional formal elements and transnational collaboration with the German Democratic Republic’s film production company, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA)—to demonstrate that, contrary to criticisms levelled by contemporary theorists clustered around Screen magazine and the British Film Institute, Amber transcended the constraints of Documentary Realism by incorporating radical avant-garde aesthetics into their oppositional practice. …”
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Cinematic Mythmaking in Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return and The Banishment by Louis Samuel Mealing

“…Since his debut feature The Return (2003), Andrey Zvyagintsev's films have drawn focus from film critics and theorists seeking to investigate a contextual analysis or the director's religious allusions. …”
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Evaluating the utilization of public art capabilities in cultural-led regeneration (Case study: Oudlajan neighborhood) by mahmood ARVIN, Mahsa ghaneh, ahmad pourahmad

“…Considering that today many cities of the country face problems such as problems of distressed urban fabric, in order to solve these problems, various solutions have been presented by experts and theorists, among which one can refer to regeneration. …”
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