• Cultural memory
• Indonesian war films and popular culture
• Cinema and literature
• Colonial and postcolonial cinema
• Extended cinema and film heritage
• Travelogues

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• Film aesthetics
• Geopolitics and (trans)national cinemas
• Cities and cinema
• Film theory and philosophy
• Film history
• Chinese cinema(s), especially Mainland China and Hong Kong

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• Memory, testimony and archives
• Film-philosophy
• French thought (Levinas, Derrida)
• Material objects and material culture
• Fashion, textile and design
• Armenian diasporic cinema and art

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• National and transnational cinemas
• ‘Minor’ cinemas, particularly Kurdish cinema
• Audiovisual heritage and memory studies
• Documentary filmmaking and instable archives
• Film aesthetics

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• Music and sound
• Ethnographic methods
• Colonial history, migration and diaspora
• Audiovisual archives
• Anthropology/history of the senses
• Representations of culture and nature

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• Avant-garde and experimental cinema
• Contemporary art and the moving image
• Artist’s film and video
• Media archaeology
• Maintenance and care
• Autobiography and autoethnography

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• Documentary
• Film-philosophy (in particular film ethics)
• Postcolonial cinema studies (in particular concerning migration
• Production studies

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• Queer and bisexual approaches to cinema
• Feminist film theory
• Sex media
• Early cinema
• Film theory
• Critical theory

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• Visual & multimodal metaphor/discourse
• Narrative & argumentation across media
• Relevance theory and visuals
• Documentary, animation, comics
• Cognitivist film studies
• Research bridging academia and the real world

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• Film theory (classical and contemporary)
• Critical theory
• Film philosophy
• U.S. cinema

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• Early film history (incl. pre-cinema)
• Philosophy of history
• Aesthetic philosophy
• Precarity in contemporary Dutch film and television
• Mediations of nature

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• Cinematic body and memory
• Materiality of cinema
• Cinematic image and sound analysis
• Photography and/in cinema
• Noir & road movies
• Virtual reality (VR) films
• Iranian cinema

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• Disability Film Studies (Crip and Mad Theories)
• Transgender Film Studies
• Feminist and Transfeminist Film Theory
• Animation Theory
• Documentary
• Film-Philosophy (Phenomenology, Affect, and Frankfurt School)

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• Film Aesthetics
• Close Reading
• Affect Theory
• Gender and Sexuality
• Pornography

• Film theory (classic and contemporary)
• Critical and cultural theory (including queer theory, Marxist theory and affect theory)
• Racial capitalism
• Theories of abjection/disgust/waste/surplus
• Horror cinema / extreme cinema(s)
• Architecture and film
• Speculative fiction and film
• Reality television

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• Francophone film culture
• Cinephilia,
• Emancipatory (film) education and critical pedagogy
• Ecopedagogy
• Film communities
• World cinema

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• Crisis reporting
• Documentation of conflicts
• Media professionals’ safety
• Media professionals’ emotional labour and mental well-being
• Ethnography and interviewing

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• Cinematic affect
• Film and emotions
• Film and art
• Film phenomenology
• Film aesthetics

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• Film aesthetics
• Film and psychoanalysis, particularly feminist and queer psychoanalysis
• Environmental humanities, including ecopsychoanalysis
• Film and psychoanalysis, particularly feminist and queer psychoanalysis
• Adaptations: literature-to-film and film-to-literature
• Frankfurt School, media, and the culture industry

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