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Kay Dickinson (Professor of Film, Concordia University)  28 November 2019 Lecture: Supply Chain Cinema, Supply Chain Education: Producing Workers for Transnational Media Production Abstract:  Increasingly, big budget films are manufactured across a number of different sites.  While this practice may be motivated by the need for particular, narratively-determined backdrops, split location production is often a… Read more Dickinson Supply Chain Cinema

Masha Kirasirova (NYU Abu Dhabi, Assistant Professor of History) 30 April 2019 Lecture: A Tashkent Spectacle: 1960s Soviet Central Asian Cinema for the Afro-Asian World. Abstract: As Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated in the early 1960s, Moscow leaders grew increasingly concerned about Chinese propaganda depicting the USSR as white, Russian, and colonial. To counter these narratives, the Communist… Read more Kirasirova Tashkent Spectacle