Category: Miscellanea
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Turn the Page Podcast, Philip Kaisary Episode
Released on July 4th, 2024, Philip Kaisary spoke with the team of librarians at Syosset Public Library who host Turn the Page: Official Podcast of the Syosset Public Library! Episode 305b: Philip Kaisary’s From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary is a fascinating exploration of the depiction of slave rebellions on film.…
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SUNY Guest Blog Post
Guest Post by Philip Kaisary Way back in the fall of 2002, I discovered the films of Gillo Pontecorvo and life hasn’t ever been quite the same since. I remember well the visceral impact of seeing for the first time The Battle of Algiers of 1966, which is justly regarded as one of the greatest anticolonial films…
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Scaffold
Congratulations to Victoria Hawco and Maki Salmon on the inaugural issue of Scaffold, the new open access, peer-reviewed graduate journal of the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton University!
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Gone With The Macho
Elio Rodriguez’s magnificent GONE WITH THE MACHO served as the basis for the cover design of From Havana to Hollywood. Here is the unmodified, original version of GONE WITH THE MACHO! Elio Rodriguez Valdes, “Gone with the Macho,” Las Perlas de tu boca, silkscreen on paper, 27,5″x19,5″, edition of 8. 1995. Courtesy of Elio Rodriguez and…
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Slavery on Screen
Original cover design artwork by Georgia Kaisary for From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary. (Inspired by the cover design for Fredric Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System.)