Lecture
Judge Dennis Davis
Monday 16.03.2026
Judge Dennis Davis
How Has Film Portrayed the Dangers of Authoritarian Rule?
Monday 16.03.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 16 March at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
This lecture seeks to answer this question by an analysis of three films: Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964), Costa-Gavras’s Z (1969), and most recently The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mondança Filho.
Judge Dennis Davis
Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.