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      • FoodFood has often served as a focalpoint of culture and community in film. Families warmly meet around the dinner table while lovers indulge in opulent feasts. Home cooked meals can evoke comfort, tradition, and sociality but its very absence can point to its commodification and politicization. The richness of food and drink on film asks us to think more closely about its primacy. It asks us to question how lives are shaped by its ubiquity, otherwise taken for granted.
      • Coming of AgeComing of Age stories focus on characters’ seminal shifts and changes. These narratives take place within transitional periods where further realisation of self isn’t necessarily restricted to age. Definitions of maturity vary depending on the nature of change, but we can expect to explore the awkwardness, confusion, and discomfort that is inherent in seeking (or being thrust into) growth.
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      • Into the Digital AgeAs we go Into the Digital Age this edition, we will be focusing on the coexistence of humanity and digital technology. Is this relationship conflict oriented, harmonious, or somewhere between the two? This coexistence can be analyzed through historical evolution, science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI), the impacts of neoliberalism, utopias, dystopias, current realities, and imagined futures.
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Category: Coming of Age

Coming of Age stories focus on characters’ seminal shifts and changes. These narratives take place within transitional periods where further realisation of self isn’t necessarily restricted to age. Definitions of maturity vary depending on the nature of change, but we can expect to explore the awkwardness, confusion, and discomfort that is inherent in seeking (or being thrust into) growth.

Coming of Age

Kajillionaire: A Delayed Coming of Age

1 May 202230 Apr 2022
My first viewing of Kajillionaire (Miranda July, 2020) left me with a lot more questions than answers. How was the film’s protagonist going to integrate herself into society after living…
Coming of Age

It Takes a Village To Raise a Child

1 May 202230 Apr 2022
From San’s ecofeminist rage in Princess Mononoke (1997) to Chihiro’s unlikely but triumphant heroism in Spirited Away (2001), Hayao Miyazaki has a special gift for writing compelling female characters that…
Coming of Age

The Clovehitch Killer: Recognizing and rejecting a birthright

1 May 202230 Apr 2022
As a boy growing up in a sexist environment, my experience with patriarchal violence was often abstracted, rationalized, and ultimately hidden. There were so many ways in which I, and…
Coming of Age

Come and See: The Trouble Starts with Kids

1 May 202230 Apr 2022
When you grow up in Russia, the Second World War, or how it is referred to there – A Great Patriotic War, is the most popular subject in the media.…
Coming of Age

Growing Up into A Giant

1 May 20221 May 2022
Dear Dad, Do you remember us racing every Sunday to get to the Blockbuster? You used to say that whoever got there first could choose the movies we were watching…
Coming of Age

When Growing Up Rhymes with Isolation: Youth Alienation in Quebec Cinema

1 May 20221 May 2022
TW: Suicide, overdose Whenever the term ‘coming-of-age’ is being discussed, one would usually assume that the rite of passage undertook by the young protagonist would ultimately lead them through some…

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