Composer and conductor John Williams has shown for more than 60 years how music can take movies to new heights.
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How did a musician whose songs were suffused with messages of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism become so commercialized?
As the journalism industry continues to crater, wealthy plutocrats are consolidating their control over information systems.
‘Jaws,’ published in 1974, terrified the public of sharks, but it also brought shark research into the scientific mainstream.
This adaption of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel is an emotional yet joyful exploration of black womanhood in the early 20th century South.
A tension between cult, critical and popular appeal is part of Norman Jewison’s most prominent legacy.
‘Past Lives’ is a beautiful story of childhood crushes, and the sorrow and agony that ensues when one party sends another party away to move to another stage of his or her life.
Jewison had a trailblazing commitment to the development of film in Canada, seen both in his founding of the Canadian Film Centre and when he visited us at the Windsor International Film Festival.
The problem with the Mean Girls musical film is that it is a pastiche of a pastiche.
Ridley Scott’s focus on Napoleon’s tactical triumphs, reckless miscalculations and sexual entanglements neglects his paradoxical legacy as a lawmaker.
At Q’s of course! But he doesn’t pull them out of his sleeve. In Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw play the famous spy and his gadget supplier.
Many Christmas-themed movies centre around single people searching for love. But many people are increasingly happy being single and in no rush to find a partner.
‘Somebody has to do something’: Top feature film and documentary picks from scholars examining climate change and cinema offer courage to hold contradictory truths and pursue climate solutions.
When the film premiered, theatergoers fainted and vomited. It went on to inspire a series of copycat films – while fomenting a cultural panic about the demons in our midst.
The film asks how individuals and communities can tackle disaster while embracing an ethos of mutual aid that sidesteps yearning for nationalist policies that lead to even more harm.
From Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, to The Door-to-Door Bookstore, a variety of new novels present bookselling as a source of solace, meaning and escape. What’s going on here?
The release of ‘American Fiction’ presents an opportunity to talk about race, power and white supremacy: What version of Blackness is acceptable or saleable within American culture?
In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, ‘American Fiction.’
While the film’s terrorists may have been fake, the message about the political climate of the time is real.
Leaving out the history of Napoléon’s brutal subjugation of Haiti is akin to making a movie about Hitler without mentioning the Holocaust.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies for Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, University of South Wales
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Research Fellow, Development, Policy and Practice (DPP), The Open University
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Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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PhD Candidate, Humanities, York University, Canada
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Distinguished Professor of Religion, University of Florida