Tag: Movies
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...
Michael Oher, Mike Tyson and the question of whether you own...
Jorge L. Contreras, University of Utah and Dave Fagundes, University of Houston Law Center
What if you overcame a...
How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘father...
Calder Walton, Harvard Kennedy School
“Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
