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Marshall Poe

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Michael Mann

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Bigas Luna

Egyptian Cinema

Pluribus

Cinematic Cairo

History Is Made At Night

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Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain with Lise Shapiro Sanders (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Q: What was Marie Stopes worried about, and what was she trying to control?

Stopes advocated women's sexual pleasure and access to contraception, but her writing also disparaged working-class people and promoted limiting their reproduction while encouraging middle- and upper-class people to have children. Sanders identifies this as a eugenicist tension in Stopes's work.

Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain with Lise Shapiro Sanders (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Q: To what extent does your book question or dispel assumptions that women's romance is superficial, escapist, or a means of indoctrinating women into patriarchal values?

Sanders says romance is complex: its plots can endorse heterosexual marriage and domesticity, but readers and writers also engaged actively with the genre. Some works opened alternatives through feminist activism, work, sexual agency, and resistance to patriarchal conventions.

Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era: Envisioning a National Identity with Samar Abdel-Rahman (American U of Cairo Press, 2026)

Q: Why did the Nasser government go on to nationalize the movie industry in the 1960s?

Abdel-Rahman explains that state involvement developed in stages, amid censorship changes, subsidies, economic pressures, and filmmakers' earlier calls for government protection against imported films. Nationalization of major studios later created bureaucratic obstacles, though it was not simply a move to suppress critical cinema.

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Q: Who was Nasser's ideal man?

Abdel-Rahman says there was no single ideal model. Nasser became an imagined masculine figure, while cinema and its stars negotiated different aspects of a new civic identity shaped by nationalism, anti-colonialism, and modernity.

Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw: Adachi Masao and Japan's Cinema of Revolution with William Andrews (Awai Books, 2026)

Q: So why Adachi would bring that in in a 2022 film, and that film was actually made only in a few days. So what's your reading of that?

Andrews interprets the references to Japan's militant left as a way to confront unresolved historical legacies and question the effectiveness and meaning of militant political action. He says the film raises questions rather than offering a simple endorsement or answer.

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