Laure Astourian

Laure Astourian is assistant professor of French at Bentley University. She is a specialist in French cinema, occasional translator, and current Fulbright research scholar in France. She holds a PhD in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University. Her book manuscript, which argues that imperial ethnography played a defining, if invisible, role in shaping 1960s French cinema, is under review.

Articles

Cinema as Airport: On Nora Martirosyan’s “Should the Wind Drop”
Nora Martirosyan’s Should the Wind Drop (Si le vent tombe, 2020), is set in Nagorno-Karabakh, a republic that does not exist on Google Earth nor in the eyes of the international community. So why do some people insist on seeing ...
Oct 22, 2021
Cinema as Airport: On Nora Martirosyan’s “Should the Wind Drop”
Nora Martirosyan’s Should the Wind Drop (Si le vent tombe, 2020), is set in Nagorno-Karabakh, a republic that does not exist on Google Earth nor in the eyes of the international community. So why do some people insist on seeing ...
Laure AstourianOct 22, 2021

Laure Astourian

Articles

Cinema as Airport: On Nora Martirosyan’s “Should the Wind Drop”

Cinema as Airport: On Nora Martirosyan’s “Should the Wind Drop”