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The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990 (2013)
Thesis
Presence, S. The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/935222

This thesis explores radical left-wing documentary produced in Britain since 1990. Despite constituting a lively and diverse part of contemporary British film culture, oppositional documentary has been overlooked by film and media scholars for much o... Read More about The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990.

An investigation of affect in the cinema: Spectacle and the melodramatic rhetoric in Nil by Mouth (2013)
Journal Article
Presence, S. (2013). An investigation of affect in the cinema: Spectacle and the melodramatic rhetoric in Nil by Mouth

This article argues that the affective, visceral dimension of cinema spectatorship is a central component of our engagment with cinema. With reference to Tom Gunning's work on the cinema of attractions, I suggest that cinematic spectacle is affective... Read More about An investigation of affect in the cinema: Spectacle and the melodramatic rhetoric in Nil by Mouth.

The Lady (Luc Besson, 2011, France/UK) [Film Review] (2011)
Journal Article
Presence, S. (2011). The Lady (Luc Besson, 2011, France/UK) [Film Review]

This is a review of The Lady (Luc Besson, 2011, France/UK) that was published in the Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 33-34 (2011)