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Category Archive: film

What Have We Done to Each Other?

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In the time of COVID, we are all married to each other. But some of our spouses are sociopaths.

Alex Sayf Cummings November 22, 2020 class, coronavirus, film, gender, prisons, religion

Cuban Spies and Cold War Syndromes: A Review of ‘Wasp Network’

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Any film that so handedly breaks from the mainstream script about Cuba deserves our praise—and our scrutiny.

Eric Morales-Franceschini October 9, 2020 1990s, Cold War, film, foreign policy, radical politics, Uncategorized

How a Film Flop from 1991 Explains 2020

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Until the End of the World, Wim Wenders’s doomed epic, was shockingly prescient about America’s equally doomed 21st century.

Jason Tebbe August 21, 2020 1990s, dog days classics, film, media studies, technology

Where Were You in ‘73?

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In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today’s political reaction.

Jason Tebbe July 16, 2020 1970s, conservatism, dog days classics, Donald Trump, film, New Right, Vietnam

Blinded by the White: The Colonised Imaginations of Gurinder Chadha and Sarfraz Manzoor

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Like most of her work, Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light parades as a paean to diversity and inclusion while reinforcing white supremacy.

kavitab February 26, 2020 Britain, film, India, literature, postcolonialism, race, South Asia, whiteness

‘Parasite’ Is the First Sexual Critique of Capitalism

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Even as it is a critique of capitalism, Bong Joon-ho’s film is also an immediate, sexual object under capitalism.

Min February 23, 2020 class, family, film, gender, Korea, Neoliberalism, postcolonialism, sexuality, Uncategorized

Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”

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The more Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece is regarded, the more it seems to vanish in the spectacle of its acclaim.

juhyundred February 17, 2020 capitalism, film, Korea, postcolonialism

Neo-Noir in the Post-Suburban City: ‘Thief’ and ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’

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No film genre in Hollywood’s golden age was more urban to its core than noir. The word conjures […]

Jason Tebbe October 21, 2019 1970s, 1980s, Chicago, class, film, gentrification, noir, race, suburbanization

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