Tag: Film
With a limited on-screen presence, autistic characters have emerged in another...
Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine and Rebecca Black, University of California, Irvine
In one Harry Potter fan fiction story, Hermione Granger anxiously awaits the...
Neil Armstrong and the America that could have been
Joe Essid, University of Richmond
According to a Gallup Poll from 1999, only 50 percent of those surveyed could even name Neil Armstrong as the...
‘Jurassic Park’ made a dinosaur-sized leap forward in computer-generated animation on...
Adam Bargteil, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
With 25 years of hindsight, “Jurassic Park” marks a pivotal point in the history of visual effects in...
How does an authoritarian regime celebrate a revolution?
Cynthia Hooper, College of the Holy Cross
“And what, exactly, is there to be celebrating?” snapped Vladimir Putin’s press secretary on Oct. 25, a little...
For a primer on how to make fun of Nazis, look...
Kevin Hagopian, Pennsylvania State University
White nationalists and neo-Nazis are having their moment. Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke is back, yet again,...
The untold stories of women in the 1967 Detroit rebellion and...
Lisa Biggs, Michigan State University
The movie “Detroit,” which tells the story of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, has received mixed reviews since its release. Some...
Why Detroit exploded in the summer of 1967
Jeffrey Horner, Wayne State University
When most people see the movie “Detroit,” it’ll likely be their first encounter with the events of July 1967, when...
From Nazis to Netflix, the controversies and contradictions of Cannes
David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University
On May 17, the 70th edition of the Festival de Cannes kicked off with the opening-night screening...