James Leo Cahill

Associate Professor, Cinema Studies and FrenchUniversity of Toronto

james.cahill@utoronto.ca

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In Media Res

Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus?

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Maggie Hennefeld

James Leo Cahill University of Toronto

April 06, 2020
6 comments

Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus? Pandemic film theory Digital Media aesthetics and politics social media Curator's Note If the essential theater is like the plague, it is not because it is contagious, but because like the plague it is the revela ...
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Climate Chaos Surrealism

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James Leo Cahill University of Toronto

February 26, 2019
Climate Chaos Surrealism anthropocene natural history Surrealism Kracauer Wally Skalij InFocus Curator's Note “Cinema’s Natural History” examines the Surrealist and Frankfurt articulation of “natural history” as a cinematic genre (understood as a for ...

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In Media Res

Media Pandemic
April 05, 2020 to April 05, 2020

Maggie Hennefeld

James Leo Cahill University of Toronto

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In Media Res

Re: Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus?

A necessity and a luxury

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James Leo Cahill University of Toronto

Monday, April 6, 2020 — 6:03 pm
Thank you for your engagement Shelley. Not unlike the toilet paper in the video, humour is both necessary and insufficient at moments of crisis, and a luxury we don't take for granted. It's hard to even know where to begin to formulate responses ...