# Cecilia Avorkliyah

> Film & Television Lecturer


## Posts

- [Hello world!](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
- [The Director’s Chair Was Never Empty](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/the-directors-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.
- [Teaching the Close-Up](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/teaching-the-close-up/): What happens when first-year students are asked to watch a single shot for ten minutes.
- [Queens of the Small Screen](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/queens-of-the-small-screen/): A limited series that treats power as routine work, and finds its drama there.
- [Notes from a Festival Week](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/notes-from-a-festival-week/): Seven days, twenty-three films, and three conversations I am still thinking about.
- [Prestige Television and the Matriarch Figure](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/prestige-television-and-the-matriarch-figure/): How the long-form drama gave older women the lead, and what it asked of them in return.
- [Reframing the Gaze, Twenty Years On](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/reframing-the-gaze-twenty-years-on/): A collected volume revisits feminist film theory and asks what survived the streaming era.
- [Why I Still Write Reviews](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/why-i-still-write-reviews/): On the quiet usefulness of criticism in a world of instant ratings.
- [Rewatching the Heroine’s Journey](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/rewatching-the-heroines-journey/): A classic returns to cinemas. It holds up better than its reputation, and worse than its fans say.
- [Television and the Domestic Sphere](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/television-and-the-domestic-sphere/): A well-argued history of the living room as a place of power, with a thin final chapter.
- [A Cinema of Her Own](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/a-cinema-of-her-own/): A reader on women’s filmmaking, useful in a seminar and generous with its sources.
- [Authorship Without Permission: Women Directors in Emerging Industries](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/authorship-without-permission-women-directors-in-emerging-industries/): Chapter in an edited volume on global cinema.
- [The Close-Up as Argument](https://ceciliaavorkliyah.com/the-close-up-as-argument/): Presented at the annual conference on film and media.

## Pages

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