A Perfect Woman is A Dead Woman - Misogyny in the “Empresses in the Palace”

If you ask anyone in China if they know who Chun Yuan is, they will immediately tell you all they know about her. This is how popular tv-series “Empresses in the Palace” is, and Chun Yuan is not even the female lead. “Empresses in the Palace,” also known as “The Legend of Zhen Huan”, has captivated audiences in China for over a decade.

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Brand biopics: Are products our new protagonists?

As I’m scrolling through the website for my local movie theater, looking through the selection of upcoming movies, I notice the poster for a movie named BlackBerry. “As in the smartphone brand?” I wonder. And it is, indeed, a film about the story behind the now shut-down brand that once ruled the smartphone market. It’s October, and we have officially gotten our fourth movie of the year centered around the history of a big corporation.

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Spilladapsjonens gullalder

Spillmediet er en stor mediebransje som bare fortsetter å vokse med tiden som går. Med det kommer det utrolig gode historier og opplevelser, som en gjerne vil dele med andre både i og utenfor spillmediet. Gjennom årene har vi sett mange forsøk på å utvide en spillserie til andre medier som tv og film, med noen som har vært ganske bra, noen som har vært helt ålreit, og noen som ikke har gått så bra.

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Behind the scenes of the NECS 2023 Conference

Co-organized by the “Screen Cultures” MA program at the University of Oslo and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, this years’ NECS was one of the largest academic events in media and film studies in Europe. Because of COVID-19, the preparation for it took nearly 3 years — but the result was 100% worth it. Here is how the one-week Conference in Oslo hosting more than 400 scholars from all over the globe came to be.

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Purveyors of Taste: The Letterboxd Generation

We’re living in the age of the curated streaming service and neighborhood art cinema. As zillennials cling to their cassette tapes and MUBI subscriptions, a new form of tastemaking and social hierarchy has emerged in the artsy crowd. Letterboxd, a film review platform, provides a safe haven for those with “unconventional” tastes and an ironic distance to the Hollywood blockbusters they diligently watch.

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Arctic Film Festival, or independent films in the North

Arctic Film Festival is the first and the only northernmost independent international film festival on the planet. Established in 2019 to raise awareness about climate change, it has since then been held in Svalbard’s Longyearbyen – the largest town of the archipelago. On May 13, 2023, the Festival returns there once again, with a carefully curated selection of independent short and feature fiction films and documentaries from all over the world. Apostolia Katsiantridou, the Head of Program for the AFF for the last 3 editions, talked with PRESSET. about the Festival’s history, mission, and nuanced relationship with nature.

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A Forum for Young Film Lovers

This past week, I sat down with Hannah Hasseløy and Jakob Skrede Langedal, who facilitate the Vega Filmklubb. The club consists of thirty people who curate a film programme for the public every autumn and spring semester. Screenings are open to everyone, and membership costs 25 NOK per semester, with an additional 50 NOK per screening. That’s quite the bang for your buck! Continue reading to hear more about this season’s programming and the group’s plans for the future.

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Are the Oscars really becoming more inclusive?

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony was a blast, with eclectic, extravagant, quite perplexing absurdist comedy/drama Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) scoring 7 wins, including in the “Best Picture” category. Written and directed by the duo of “Daniels” aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, this film is as far from “Oscar bait” as it can be. Michelle Yeoh’s historic — first Asian actress to have won an Oscar in the “Best Actress” nomination — golden statuette is yet another clear signal of the long-awaited cinematographic tectonic shift. The Oscars are — finally! — changing. But are they?

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