Graham Thiele is director of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas, led by the International Potato Center (CIP), bringing together multiple partners to improve food security and reduce rural poverty through research for development. He holds an MSc in Agricultural Economics from the University of London and a PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge. He began his career at the UKâ€â€¦
This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealism, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching. More of a tendency than a tightly defined style or "ism," Neorealism is the Dutch variant of Magic Realism, an uncanny mode of figurative painting identified with Neue…