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The Villain’s Passport: How Hollywood Weaponised Accents and Faces
In the world of film why does evil and the enemy so often speak with a foreign accent?
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Troubled Frames III: “What’s Róisín Irish For?”
Maeve (1981) and the Rebellion of the Untranslatable Body
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Double Exposure: The Woman Who Broke the Contract: Jocelin Donahue in Oren Shai’s The Frontier
Double Exposure is a recurring essay series on The Quiet Axis that re-evaluates overlooked or misread film performances, especially by women, through a…
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Cinema After Censorship: What’s Left When Nothing’s Off Limits?
In contemporary cinema, creative freedom is no longer radical but the baseline standard.
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Troubled Frames II: Bloody Sunday on Film, Behind the Glass
The Memory That Film Makes
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Troubled Frames: Cinema and the Colonial Gaze in Northern Ireland
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Double Exposure: The Woman Who Broke the Contract: Jocelin Donahue in Oren Shai’s The Frontier
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The Christopher Nolan Problem
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Troubled Frames II: Bloody Sunday on Film, Behind the Glass
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Double Exposure: The Comeback (2026) Completes the Three Act Tragedy and Valerie Cherish Is the Sacrifice
In 2026, The Comeback will return for a third season, its second resurrection in a media landscape that has finally caught up with the woman it once…
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Troubled Frames: Cinema and the Colonial Gaze in Northern Ireland
The cinematic landscape of Northern Ireland remains both politically fraught and narratively unresolved.
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The Death of Cinema: How We Stopped Watching Together
The psychological rupture behind cinema’s audience crisis
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Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985): A Labyrinth with No Minotaur
The Masculine Unconscious and the Architecture of Containment
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The Christopher Nolan Problem
Cinema, Control, and the Fear of Feeling
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Death in the Greenhouse: Working Women and Cinematic Punishment in 90s Thrillers
A psychoanalytic excavation of ambition, guilt, and female rivalry in 90s thrillers
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Double Exposure: Rebecca De Mornay and the Psycho-Social Rage of Maternal Performance
Maternal Superegos, Complicit Survivors, and the Cold Logic of Care
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The Wes Anderson Problem: Aesthetic Groupthink and the Need to Belong
What looks like taste might just be fear of exclusion.
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Double Exposure: Margot Kidder
Reframing overlooked actors through theory, tension, and time
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Troubled Frames: Cinema and the Colonial Gaze in Northern Ireland
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Double Exposure: The Woman Who Broke the Contract: Jocelin Donahue in Oren Shai’s The Frontier
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The Christopher Nolan Problem
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Troubled Frames II: Bloody Sunday on Film, Behind the Glass
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The Wes Anderson Problem: Aesthetic Groupthink and the Need to Belong
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