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Kurdish women fighters brought to life on the big screen
Film & theatre Feminism Barry Healy Rojava Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Les Filles du Soleil (Girls of the Sun) Written & directed by Eva Husson Starring Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot, Erol Afsin, Evi ...
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Germany's forgotten revolution brought to life
Socialism Economy Barry Healy All That I Am, A Novel By Anna Funder Penguin 2011 370 pp, $29.95 Germany at the end of World War I entered a political and cultural maelstrom that tested the integrity of all its participants. This factually based narrative, ...
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Toussaint Louverture brought to life in play, book
Anti-racism National liberation Latin America & the Caribbean Barry Healy Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts CLR James, edited by Christian Hogsbjerg Duke University Press 2013 222 pp., ...
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Ways of seeing Australia through capitalist and Aboriginal eyes
of the 1600s, demonstrating the European perspective that was brought to Australia with the invasion. ...
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Mary Quant: From mini skirt to mega corporation
at events and publicity management projected her image. Archie McNair brought the business acumen ...
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Black Swan Theatre drives sports-acquired concussion discussion
enough that the brain is damaged. She brought a broader perspective to the discussion by pointing out ...
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Siegfried Sassoon鈥檚 poetic, political and spiritual declaration
was killed, Sassoon championed his poetry and brought it to the widest audience. Benediction portrays ...
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New documentary celebrates Indigenous and working-class leader Bill Onus
making Ablaze, Onus and Morgan have brought to light an inspiring account of one of Australia鈥檚 great ...
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New film reveals the sexual politics behind the 'Moomin' comics
development as a painter and how she segued into the Moomin work that brought her fame. Jansson was part of ... brought allusions to her friends and gay imagery into the Moomin comics. In her circle lesbians were ...
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Ai Weiwei: The artist as troublemaker
the Anti-Rightist campaign the Cultural Revolution brought more woes to the family. Ai Qing was not ...
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British working-class history refracted through the story of an artistic family
Broomfield brought an artist鈥檚 eye to his work, carefully staging and lighting his subjects to bring drama ...
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Hollywood meets feminism, bad men die in pantomime gross-out gore
music videos were swallowed whole long ago. Now, after the #MeToo movement has brought down former film ...
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'Love in Bright Landscapes' 鈥 the life of David McComb
colloquially called 鈥渟essions鈥. Pubs brought in bands to draw the drinkers and many musicians honed their ...
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Hunger and obesity: Intertwined epidemics
something to say. Australia聽鈥 which last year brought in the biggest wheat crop in 31 years 鈥 was absent. ...
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David Gulpilil 鈥 An elder summons us to listen
his Yolngu culture and reflects on the walking in two worlds that his fame has brought him. He is ...
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The making of the women's pro surfing story, 'Girls Can't Surf'
鈥brought out the film producer鈥 in him. 鈥淚 wondered about the history of women in surfing and I thought ...
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Racism and criminality 鈥 the underside of jazz music
have sprung from the sweat and blood of Afro-Americans聽as they amalgamated the traditions they brought ...
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The magnificence and the tragedy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party
impressive 鈥 just having the Panthers brought to life is magnificent 鈥 but it has minor defects. LaKeith ...
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Misogynistic barbarity of Taliban rule illustrated
they brought order to the chaos while the US was indifferent to what was going on. But once in power ... brought further destruction to Afghanistan. At its heart, this film is a love story, of human emotion ...
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The Recorder: Media obsession and common humanity
marriage, but her radicalism brought her into contact with her second husband, who was heir to enormous ...
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X&Y 鈥 gender, power, sanity and, well, fucking
penetrative sex with him. Next, other actors are brought in to play various aspects of the lead actors鈥 ...
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Anti-war GIs: Two books unveil the anti-Vietnam War movement among US soldiers
then successfully defeated charges they brought against him in court. But psychologically he couldn鈥檛 ...
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Rebel filmmakers honour CLR James
died in 1989 just as the Soviet Union was beginning to break up 鈥 something that brought him joy.聽 Now ... invasion brought together the group that formed the International African Service Bureau. The Bureau ... Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. All this brought him to the attention ...
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French racism and super-exploitation tackled in Samba
Their lives interweave sometimes hilariously and sometimes awfully. The viewer is brought face to face ...
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Court orders new Perth native title hearing
a claim brought by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC). In the 2006 case, in which ...