The Tale of the Tasaday, as Seen on TV
"The Book of Paradise Has No Author" blends media criticism and historical scholarship to tell the splintered story of the Tasaday....
Who's the Baddie? Captain Marvel in the Age of American Empire
Who is Captain Marvel an allegory for?...
Life After Noir: A Conversation with Duke Haney
David Breithaupt debriefs Duke Haney, author of “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland.”...
Jane Austen on Film
On the many adaptations of Jane Austen's writing....
“In a Different Voice”: Act II
Carol Gilligan on three recent films that give her hope....
Dancing Between Worlds: An Interview with Saul Williams
On Saul Williams’s blended family; his love for Ntozake Shange; and his latest project, Neptune Frost, the graphic novel and its musical....
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Western?
Krithika Varagur looks at two recent women-centric Westerns and attest to the quintessentially American genre’s enduring vitality abroad....
Render Unto “Hail, Caesar!”
Far from being a “trifle,” "Hail, Caesar!" is thematically profound, a heartfelt and rueful tribute to the craft of filmmaking....
What Democracy Looks Like
An interview with Astra Taylor about her new movie, "What Is Democracy?"...
“Dumplin’” and the Fat Female Protagonist
A new Netflix film explores fat-shaming and body positivity....
“Two Catalonias”’s Pact of Forgetting
“Two Catalonias” makes no mention of the Spanish Civil War, an elision that is representative of Spain’s refusal to contend with the war’s lasting effects....
Housekeeping’s Patron Saint
"Roma" is a movie made to appease the ruling class: fawning in its praise of power, it dead-ends at an image that literally deifies servitude....
