Cecilia Avorkliyah

admin

Uncategorized
Nov 2026

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

Film & TV Reviews
Oct 2026
★★★★☆

The Director’s Chair Was Never Empty

Three recent features share one habit: they let a woman’s point of view run the whole film, not a single scene.

Blog
Oct 2026

Teaching the Close-Up

What happens when first-year students are asked to watch a single shot for ten minutes.

Film & TV Reviews
Sep 2026
★★★★★

Queens of the Small Screen

A limited series that treats power as routine work, and finds its drama there.

Blog
Sep 2026

Notes from a Festival Week

Seven days, twenty-three films, and three conversations I am still thinking about.

Academic Papers
Sep 2026

Prestige Television and the Matriarch Figure

How the long-form drama gave older women the lead, and what it asked of them in return.

Book Reviews
Aug 2026

Reframing the Gaze, Twenty Years On

A collected volume revisits feminist film theory and asks what survived the streaming era.

Blog
Aug 2026

Why I Still Write Reviews

On the quiet usefulness of criticism in a world of instant ratings.

Film & TV Reviews
Jul 2026
★★★☆☆

Rewatching the Heroine’s Journey

A classic returns to cinemas. It holds up better than its reputation, and worse than its fans say.

Book Reviews
Apr 2026

Television and the Domestic Sphere

A well-argued history of the living room as a place of power, with a thin final chapter.