Tag: Movies
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...
Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies
Marsha Gordon, North Carolina State University
I’m a film studies professor, so when I first saw an image of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s June...
Why it matters that teens are reading less
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago. But today’s teens...
Black and biracial Americans wouldn’t need to code-switch if we lived...
Chandra D.L. Waring, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Boots Riley’s new film “Sorry to Bother You” does anything but apologize.
In telling the story of Cassius, a...
‘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...
The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models
Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
I’m not the first to say that the upcoming Marvel movie...
What makes some art so bad that it’s good?
John Dyck, CUNY Graduate Center
“The Disaster Artist” – which just earned James Franco a Golden Globe for his portrayal of director Tommy Wiseau –...
Literature has long been sounding the alarm about sexual violence in...
Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
Recent revelations about Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment and violence might come as a surprise to many Americans.
After all,...
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
