Author Archives: bsk

bioskop at UWE occupation

Posted on December 8, 2010 by bsk

The Bioskop went to Frenchay Campus last night to show our support for students of the University of West of England who have set up a Camp for Education in protest against the proposed raising of university fees by the … Continue reading →

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A Guide to Armageddon

Posted on November 10, 2010 by bsk
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Kitchen Sink

Posted on November 9, 2010 by bsk

Oooh Kitchen Sink (Alison Maclean, 1989) Kitchen Sink \ Alison Maclean [1989] from veana on Vimeo.

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the system of food

Posted on November 3, 2010 by bsk

“When he buys an item of food, consumes it, or serves it, modern man does not manipulate a simple object in a purely transitive fashion; this item of food sums up and trasnmits a situation; it constitutes an information; it … Continue reading →

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False Criticism: Cinema and the Conservative (Indie) Critique of the Bourgeois Society

Posted on November 2, 2010 by bsk

If you, like the Bioskop, felt that nineties and noughties US “indie” films like  American Beauty,  Fight Club, Elephant, Magnolia, Thirteen, In the Cut, Virgin Suicides etc didn’t deliver the brutal critique of society that they promised, or that all … Continue reading →

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brute practicality

Posted on November 2, 2010 by bsk

my favourite grumpy writer jenny diski on refusing a pair of boots as one of the most formative experiences of her adolescence. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n22/jenny-diski/diary

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Women’s orgasm – how do you KNOW?

Posted on October 22, 2010 by bsk

“In her seminal book Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the ‘Frenzy of the Visible’, first published in 1989, Linda Williams accounts for hardcore pornography as a discourse of sexuality. Drawing on Michel Foucault, she discusses pornography in terms of scientia … Continue reading →

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world war three/don’t blame me/you will have no electricity

Posted on October 22, 2010 by bsk

it’s all doom and gloom. with thanks to david hopkinson x

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Food in Cinema book

Posted on October 15, 2010 by bsk

Ooooh does anyone speak Dutch? A delicious-looking study on food in cinema by Louise O. Fresco and Helen Westerik, published by Amsterdam University Press. I’ll pay in cake for a peek-translation. Verraad, verleiding en verzoening. De rol van eten in … Continue reading →

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italian dinnertime

Posted on October 15, 2010 by bsk

not my favourite film – but a great family dinner scene: Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini) and what about Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorcese) – the dinner in prison scene or dinner at tommy’s mum. domesticity and brutality of mafia, italian style. … Continue reading →

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