Alice Lovejoy

Alice Lovejoy

A woman with short brown and gray hair wearing a black coat stands in front of a yellow brick wall, looking at the camera.

Alice Lovejoy is the author of the award-winning Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military. A former editor at Film Comment, she is a professor of film and media studies at the University of Minnesota.

Technical drawing of an oval-shaped mechanical object with measurements and annotations, overlaid with orange scribble lines, subtly hinting at themes of colonial propaganda.
In this excerpt from "Tales of Militant Chemistry," Alice Lovejoy exposes how the need for uranium during WWII led the Allied governments to turn a blind eye to colonial exploitation.