Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...

Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...

O'Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades...

Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...

How does the world of book reviews work?

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change?

Cazenave offers a fascinating analysis of the 220 hours of outtakes edited out of the final nine and a half-hour 1985 film with which listeners and readers might be familiar...

Dyson is not only analyzing the tropes and themes of these series, but he is braiding them together with broader disciplinary frameworks and concepts from political science...

In "Gaelic Games on Film," Crosson traces out the use of Irish sports in Irish, American, and British cinema.

Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...

What does Friends mean to us now?

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...

What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?

Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...

Past studies a complex of issues surrounding on-location films made in Italy and the way their production leaves lasting, material traces on the environment...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Issacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity...

Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...

Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...

Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...

The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...