Tag: Movies
Some people love to scare themselves in an already scary world...
Sarah Kollat, Penn State
Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses....
Scorsese’s gods of the streets: From ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’...
Anthony Smith, University of Dayton
A widely circulated still from the set of Martin Scorsese’s latest film, “Killers of...
From rebel to retail − inside Bob Marley’s posthumous musical and...
Mike Alleyne, Middle Tennessee State University
The long-awaited Bob Marley biopic “One Love” will highlight important moments in the...
‘Jaws’ portrayed sharks as monsters 50 years ago, but it also...
Gavin Naylor, University of Florida
Human fear of sharks has deep roots. Written works and art from the ancient...
Making emotional films: The enticing contradictions of Norman Jewison’s movies
Lisa Coulthard, University of British Columbia
How should we think about the late Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison’s legacy?
‘Wonka’ movie holds remnants of novel’s racist past
Meisha Lohmann, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Several years ago, I made a visit to a local...
The sky’s the limit: A brief history of in-flight entertainment
Olusola Adewumi John, University of Regina https://narrations.ad-auris.com/widget/the-conversation-canada/the-skys-the-limit-a-brief-history-of-in-flight-entertainment
As the winter holidays draw near, many of us are already booking...
How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween’s theme song
Megan Sarno, University of Texas at Arlington
Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn...
EXPLORING NATURE
Missing link to Snowball Earth history emerges from some unusual rocks...
Liam Courtney-Davies, University of Colorado Boulder; Christine Siddoway, Colorado College, and Rebecca Flowers, University of Colorado Boulder
Around 700...
