German and German-language Films

Botswana’s Heavy Metal Queens: focusing on the fashions and image rather than the music and the subculture

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Sarah Vianney, “Botswana’s Heavy Metal Queens” (2018) Despite the title, the heavy metal queens of Botswana  featured in this Deutsche Welle documentary aren’t musicians and there’s…

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Japanese Films, Russian and Soviet Films

A society fragmenting in “Dying Alone: Kodokushi, Japan’s epidemic of isolation through the eyes of a ‘lonely death’ cleaner”

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Artyom Somov, “Dying Alone: Kodokushi, Japan’s epidemic of isolation through the eyes of a ‘lonely death’ cleaner” (RT.com, March 2019) Since 1945, the increasing Westernisation of…

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