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    • American Utopia: Socio-economic Critique and Utopia in American Honey and The Florida Project

      Laleen Jayamanne
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      Issue 92
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      Laleen Jayamanne
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      Laleen Jayamanne
      October 2019
      Issue 92
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      Laleen Jayamanne
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      Issue 92
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      Laleen Jayamanne
      October 2019
      Issue 92
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      Laleen Jayamanne
      October 2019
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      Laleen Jayamanne
      October 2019
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      Laleen Jayamanne
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Author Laleen Jayamanne

Laleen Jayamanne

Laleen Jayamanne taught Cinema Studies in the Dept. of Art History and Film, University of Sydney from 1990-2013. Director, A Song of Ceylon (16mm film, Australian Film Commission, 1985). Author of Towards Cinema and Its Double; Cross-Cultural Mimesis (Indiana University Press, 2001) and The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani, (Indiana University Press, 2015).

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Story of Home: The Paternal Legacy of Black Panther

Laleen Jayamanne
October 2018
Feature Articles
Issue 88
We hear the voices of a father and a son talking to each other over a black screen (accompanied by soft string music), in the very opening moments of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018, Marvel Studios). But...
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The Ornamentation of Nicole Kidman (Eyes Wide Shut) and Mita Vashisht (Kasba): a Sketch

Laleen Jayamanne
December 2002
The Female Actor
Issue 23
Jayamanne argues that, drawing on traditions of painting and eliciting a brand of performance, Kubrick and Shahani mobilise ornamentation to create femininity as a metamorphic force.
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Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee

Laleen Jayamanne
December 2002
Book Reviews
Issue 23
(London: British Film Institute, 2002) Gayatri Chatterjee's book on the Indian epic film Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957) is one of a series of books that the British Film Institute has commissioned on the...
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Va Savoir! (Who Knows!, 2001, Jacques Rivette)

Laleen Jayamanne
May 2002
Feature Articles
Issue 20 Issue 20
Six characters in search of (variously) a lost play, a stolen ring, has-been and would-be lovers and who knows what, finally converge on a stage set for Pirandello's play, As you desire me. Such a mix of...

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