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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. 

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 ...

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 ASTOURIAN

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