Tag: Film
Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the...
Jessica Pressman, San Diego State University
Mermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have...
Music inspires powerful emotions on screen, just like in real life
Gena R. Greher, UMass Lowell
There are some classic films in which music is so integral to a scene,...
5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
Unions are more popular now than at any time since 1965, and the U.S. is...
What is aphasia? An expert explains the condition forcing Bruce Willis...
Swathi Kiran, Boston University
Actor Bruce Willis, 67, is “stepping away” from his career in film and TV after...
With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s ‘bunker...
David L. Pike, American University
At the end of the Academy Award-nominated film “Don’t Look Up,” with a meteor...
After Hollywood thwarted Anna May Wong, the actress took matters into...
Shirley J. Lim, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
The U.S. Mint will, over the next...
‘West Side Story’ may be timeless – but life in gangs...
David Pyrooz, University of Colorado Boulder; James Densley, Metropolitan State University , and Scott H. Decker, Arizona State University
How Netflix affects what we watch and who we are –...
David Beer, University of York
Netflix’s dystopian Korean drama Squid Game has become the streaming platform’s biggest-ever series launch,...
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Social distancing comes with social side effects – here’s how to...
Jonathan Kanter, University of Washington and Adam Kuczynski, University of Washington
To fight the spread of coronavirus, government officials have asked Americans to swallow a...
