Screenshot from ‘Is Japan Cool?’ advertising campaign by ANA All Nippon Airways Contributions are now being accepted for a new edited book titled ‘Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present’. The book aims to analyse, deconstruct and challenge representations of Japan in a variety of different visual media such…
Dear Readers, It is my distinct pleasure to invite you to the book launch of ‘The Evolution of the Image’ I co-edited with Basia Sliwinska. The launch will be held at the London College of Fashion on Wednesday 13th of June at 6pm. All are welcome. Please register for your free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-evolution-of-the-image-political-action-and-the-digital-self-tickets-46221813689 The…
British bacteriologist Walter played by Edward Norton The Painted Veil, a 1925 novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham, has been adapted into three movies: in 1934 featuring Greta Garbo, in 1957 under the title The Seventh Sin, and most recently in 2006 directed by John Curran. Although the book and previous adaptations are…