Author Archive for: ‘Keith Beattie’

From City Symphony to Global City Film: Documentary Display and the Corporeal

Films…testify to bodies that were present before the camera. (David MacDougall) In the introduction to his history of the relationship between the body and the city in Western civilisation, Richard Sennett includes an anecdote about attending a cinema in New York. Sennett uses the story of watching film as a way of commenting on the place of the body and …

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History, Memory, and the Politics of Programming: The Video Work of Richard Fung

Uploaded Friday, 27 June 2003 Richard Fung, a Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic, was born in Trinidad in 1954, and attended school in Ireland before immigrating to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. Richard Fung has taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and has been a visiting professor in the Department of Media Study …

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