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Reviewed by Amy Macdonald, University of Alberta
What is the everyday? This question might seem unnecessary and superfluous. Are we not surrounded by it, steeped in it? Is it not something we can know and understand naturally, something we can [...]
The city montage from King Vidor’s 1928 silent film, The Crowd
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Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (this time: Adrian Blackwell, Greig de Peuter, Christine Shaw, & Marcelo Vieta)
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