Sarah Jilani
Sarah Jilani is an AHRC-Newton Trust PhD candidate at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, researching the relationship between subjectivity and neocolonialism in post-independence African and South Asian film and literatures. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, Women: A Cultural Review, and Life Writing, and she has written on film, literature and contemporary art for The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Economist and The Independent. A graduate of the universities of York and Oxford, she was born and raised in Istanbul.
Journals presented by Sarah Jilani
“We reject the commercial and commodified form of cinema, just as we reject the societal order that produces such a cinema. Neither this form, nor this order, enables humanity to realise itself.” A year prior to Solanas and Getino’s “Towards A Third Cinema” (1969), a group of radical Turkish filmmakers and writers declared this in their new […]