It seems like Hollywood can’t get enough of reboots. They lurk everywhere, in every genre, recycling the same story over and over again. Sure, it’s…
Nude Descending a Staircase [No. 2] (1912), by Marcel Duchamp, was one of the first contemporary paintings to show movement within a single frame….
In her essay “Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality,” renowned filmmaker Maya Deren makes the argument that animation (or “animated paintings” as she refers…
Building on the works of apparatus theorists Christian Metz and Jacques Lacan, Jean Louis Baudry argues in his 1974 article, the “Ideological Effects of the…
Protests throughout the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement have increased focus on police shootings and reports of alleged police misconduct. In the…
Protests throughout the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement have increased focus on police shootings and reports of alleged police misconduct. In the…
By looking at the main American masculine heroes over time, important ideologies about the country’s culture are exposed. Preliminary investigation of some of these heroes,…
Belladonna of Sadness (1973), a psychedelic and erotic Japanese animated film, was just recently released for the first time in the United States in 2016…
Upon walking into the Louvre in Paris, visitors are greeted with signs in every language. This quickly changes once inside, where the placards and information…
Linklater’s seminal work Boyhood (2014) received an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPPA) for “sexual references, and for teen drug and alcohol…