From Academia to Hollywood: An Interview with Tony Tost
Right now, I’m maybe most spooked by how a living, breathing cultural memory is seeming to evaporate.
Clay Routledge
· 21 min read
Cinema
A collection of 97 posts
How Prophetic Was Gattaca?
Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended.
George Schifini
· 5 min read
The Conservative Manifesto Buried in 'Avengers: Endgame'
If you haven’t seen Endgame yet—or if you take comfort in the delusion that Marvel is “woke”—stop reading now.
Aaron Sibarium
· 10 min read
Dragged Across Concrete—A Review
In a cultural moment that has seen reputations destroyed by a single tweet, each transgression can become the entirety of a person’s character.
David G. Hughes
· 6 min read
Don't Deny Girls the Evolutionary Wisdom of Fairy-Tales
Yet, this is the sort of hysteria used to justify yanking away the wonderful fun of watching Disney princess films. Remember fun?
Amy Alkon
· 7 min read
Representation and the Communitarianization of Cinema
Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.
Oliver Whiskard
· 10 min read
‘The Apartment,’ Authority, and Consent
On a topic of particular pertinence to our own cultural moment, Billy Wilder’s 1960 classic is a fascinating artefact well worth revisiting.
Matthew Stahlman
· 10 min read