Where to draw the line -- book presentation of Carnal Cinema: the Forbidden Interviews
At the turn of the millennium, Shetland-based filmmaker Andrew Lowes wrote a series of cutting satirical interviews with familiar-yet-imagined figures from across the film world for online indie film publication Netribution. These were each illustrated by French artist Éric Dubois while on sabbatical in Glasgow in 2006, and together these capture a brief moment at the end of an era of mostly male, pale Hollywood pomposity. We’re delighted to welcome Andrew and Éric to discuss the new book with Glasgow-based film programmer Kate Taylor, exploring the power of satire and cartoons in capturing moments in time, and asking what happens when that world changes.
College of Arts School of Modern Languages and Cultures Stirling Maxwell Centre
Date: Thursday 19 March 2026
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Venue: 8 Professor’s Square, 354 (Cosgrove Room)
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Andrew Lowes (author), Éric Dubois (illustrator); Kate Taylor (respondent)
Document: Carnal Cinema Poster
Where to draw the line
Presentation of Carnal Cinema: the Forbidden Interviews (London and Glasgow: Netribution and Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2025).
With Andrew Lowes (author) and Éric Dubois (illustrator).
Responder: Kate Taylor (Independent film programmer and lecturer)
Where to draw the line? A comic time capsule of cinema before the streaming storm.
The newest volume from the Glasgow Emblem Studies — Carnal Cinema: The Forbidden Interviews, Volume 1 — takes the Stirling Maxwell Centre in a new direction, blurring humour, cartoons and commentary to revisit the recent history of a much transformed film industry.
At the turn of the millennium, Shetland-based filmmaker Andrew Lowes wrote a series of cutting satirical interviews with familiar-yet-imagined figures from across the film world for online indie film publication Netribution. These were each illustrated by French artist Éric Dubois while on sabbatical in Glasgow in 2006, and together these capture a brief moment at the end of an era of mostly male, pale Hollywood pomposity.
We’re delighted to welcome Andrew and Éric to discuss the new book with Glasgow-based film programmer Kate Taylor, exploring the power of satire and cartoons in capturing moments in time, and asking what happens when that world changes.
