Category: Film

March 15, 2017

Art in an Age of Narrowcasting — Erika Balsom

Erika Balsom, author of “After Uniqueness,” examines how artists’ videos broadcast on Greek television are engaging shifting distribution ecologies of contemporary moving-image art and with the specific context of Greek public television in a time of austerity measures.

March 9, 2017

Reconstructing Strangelove

Read an interview with Mick Broderick, author of RECONSTRUCTING STRANGELOVE: INSIDE STANLEY KUBRICK’S “NIGHTMARE COMEDY.”

February 15, 2017

Trump's Strange Loves

Read a post by Mick Broderick, author of RECONSTRUCTING STRANGELOVE: INSIDE STANLEY KUBRICK’S “NIGHTMARE COMEDY,” on Donald Trump and Dr. Strangelove, as part of our series of blog posts on the 2016 election and beyond.

September 28, 2016

William Guynn on Film's Depiction of Historical Trauma

“Recovery of experience can be harrowing and is particularly so in films that speak about traumatic events in the catastrophic twentieth century. All the films evoke unresolved historical situations—unresolved for the communities that experienced them and for the historians who...

August 23, 2016

Dismantling Fantasies of Consent and Violence: Three Excerpts from Hunting Girls

“From fairytales to pornography, popular culture is filled with girls and women, unconscious or sleeping, ‘enjoying’ nonconsensual sex. And until we change our fantasies, it is going to be difficult to change our realities.”

August 23, 2016

Girls as Trophies: Introducing "Hunting Girls"

Read an excerpt from the introduction to HUNTING GIRLS: SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM THE HUNGER GAMES TO CAMPUS RAPE, by Kelly Oliver.

August 17, 2016

The Man in the Middle

Read a guest post by Stephen Charbonneau, author of PROJECTING RACE: POSTWAR AMERICA, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND DOCUMENTARY FILM.

July 13, 2016

When Movies Were Theater — William Paul

William Paul on how movie theaters and exhibition shaped American film.

July 12, 2016

Interview with William Paul, author of "When Movies Were Theater"

William Paul considers the history of movie theaters and how it shapes how we think about film.

February 29, 2016

The Story Behind "Spotlight" — Roy J. Harris on the Boston Globe's Pulitzer-Winning Story

Before Spotlight, the movie, won the Oscar for Best Picture, the Boston Globe won the Pulitzer for its remarkable investigative journalism. Below is the chapter “Epiphany in Boston: 2003: The Globe and the Church,” from Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of...

September 4, 2015

Emanuel Levy on the Politics of Gay Films

Emanuel Levy discusses the political nature of the work of Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and John Waters.

September 3, 2015

Emanuel Levy on John Waters, Camp, and Pink Flamingos

Emanuel Levy, author of “Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters,” on John Waters’s political use of camp.