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Alex Munt, Associate Professor, Media Arts & Production, University of Technology Sydney

‘Dark Academia’ romanticises a gothic higher education aesthetic. The modern institution is ethically closer to grey

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The world of graduate research studies in higher education is not typically deemed cinematic material: the “actions” of scholarship are rather prosaic. However, two films currently in cinemas have put graduate research on the screen.

Sorry, Baby, an indie film by writer/director Victor Eva and Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, from a screenplay by Nora Garrett, connect with the genre and online aesthetic of “Dark Academia” and its obsession for all things scholarly.

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