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With God and Guitars: Popular Music, Socialism, and the Church in East Germany

2017

AbstractIn the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Church entered into a long-term, complex and productive symbiosis with popular music. Beginning in the 1950s, reform-minded pastors opened their doors to jazz, and, later, almost the entire spectrum of popular music could be found in their churches: from pop hits, beat, rock, blues to singer/songwriters and punk. The interplay between the Church and popular music gave rise to a highly unique communicative space, a counterpart to the rigidly organized public realm. Here, political dissidents took refuge from a repressive system and were free to examine their society critically. This political force infused the alliance of the Chu…

“This England”: Re-Visiting Shakespearean Landscapes and Mediascapes in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010)

2017

The paper will offer a reading of John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010), a 90-minute experimental feature film that has been defined as “one of the most vital and original artistic responses to the subject of immigration that British cinema has ever produced” (Mitchell). It will focus on the multifarious ways in which the film makes the “canonical” literary material that it incorporates, including Shakespeare, interact with rarely seen archival material from the BBC regarding the experience of Caribbean and South Asian immigrants in 1950s and 1960s Britain. It will argue that through this interaction the familiarity of Western “canonical” literature re-presents itself as an uncanny landscap…

Regarding the shipwreck of others: for a critical visual topography of Mediterranean migration

2019

This article reflects on the relationship between photography and migration from a cultural geography perspective, with particular reference to the visual construction of the Mediterranean border regime. The contemporary aesthetics of Mediterranean migration is one of the domains in which visual and social norms are most closely intertwined. My main purpose is to unveil these processes of mutual (re)production by analysing how photographs forge our everyday perceptions of migration and affect our very ability to produce ethical and political responses to the events they portray. Drawing on a range of fields and approaches, including cultural geography, visual culture studies and postcoloni…

Filming among the Hamar

1988

I've often been asked how I came to take part in Robert Gardner's films in Hamar. What do I think of his film Rivers of Sand and how has working with him influenced the concept of ethnography in my films, Der Sprung uber die Rinder (The Leap Across the Cattle), Der Herr der Ziegen (The Father of the Goats), and Gesang der Hamar Hirten (The Hamar Herdsman and his Music). I've tried to answer these questions and to explain how Jean Rouch and the cinema verite have also influenced me. My films were shot in strict collaboration with the Hamar, determining the choice of themes, collective efforts in the production of the films, and in their analysis.

You Are In the Army Now : Militarism and masculinity in contemporary Polish cinema, the case of Karbala

2020

James L. Boone, Lost Civilization? The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal. (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology.) London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp.…

2013

Carla Cucina, Il “Seafarer”: La “navigatio” cristiana di un poeta anglosassone. (Biblioteca Medievale: Saggi, Richerche, Edizioni, 2.) Rome: Kappa, 2…

2010

Kadri, Alice; Moreno Moreno, Yolanda y Echevarría Arsuaga, Ana (Eds.), Circulaciones mudéjares y moriscas: redes de contacto y representaciones. (Est…

2021

The justice of visual art. Creative state-building in times of political transition (Series: law in context)

2021

Death and Rebirth: Images of Death in Sicily

2015

Photographs were often taken during funerary ceremonies in Sicily. Local photographers were commissioned to document funerals as if they were christenings, communions or wedding ceremonies; and it is no mere coincidence that in funeral portraits the relatives arranged around the coffin assumed postures similar to those seen in photos of festivities. This tradition of taking photos during such “mixed occasions” gives the images a profound significance and highlights the archaic roots of the popular ideology of death as a continuum of life.