PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
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STEPHEN TRINDER talks to Andy Hedgecock about why there's little radical vision in science-fiction cinema
Neill Blomkamp's Elysium (left) and (right) Abu Dhabi-based writer and academic Stephen Trinder
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily
“IT HAS got to a point where the general public are not particularly shocked or even bothered that the Pentagon would directly intervene on a script that was critical of the US or its military,” says Abu Dhabi-based writer and academic Stephen Trinder.
Trinder is alarmed by declassified government reports of direct interference in film-making by people in power but the real focus of his research and writing is the extent to which neoliberal thinking is reinforced by subtler forms of influence and constraint.
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