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Trouble in Censoring: Lubitsch v. Hollywood?
The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) was founded in 1922 as a trade association by the Hollywood studios in order to protect…
Oct 31, 2020
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Christopher Rhine
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Book Review: The Museum of Innocence
Unless one were to cheat and do quick research into the content’s reality in the fictional novel, The Museum of Innocence (Masumiyet Müzesi) by Orhan…
Oct 5, 2020
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Christopher Rhine
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Buster Keaton's Comic Brilliance
Visual humor from the silent-era cinema, like other forms of humor (stand-up, sitcom, etc.), is hard to dissect because of the adage that explaining a…
Sep 17, 2020
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Christopher Rhine
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Tenet Will Not 'Save' Cinema or: How to Talk About the End of Cinema Without Reactionary Positing
Most of the reviews for Christopher Nolan's new film, Tenet, argue that its supposed to be the savior of cinema because it’s the first blockbuster…
Aug 31, 2020
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Christopher Rhine
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Athénaïse’s Ironic Awakening
Kate Chopin’s first published story, “Emancipation.
Aug 12, 2020
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Christopher Rhine
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Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory (feat. 'Indian Camp')
What is the Iceberg Theory and how did Ernest Hemingway use it for his fiction?
Aug 8, 2020
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Christopher Rhine
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Marrying Guido to the Spectator: 8½ and Fellini-Spectator Verification
Federico Fellini composes 8½ according to the limits of his own subconscious, giving his spectators an interesting take on the inside of a director's…
Mar 29, 2017
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Christopher Rhine
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Isolation and Western Perception in Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis"
Oppression and misplaced representations of Iranians as Others led Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian in exile, to publish Persepolis: The Story of a…
Feb 12, 2017
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Christopher Rhine
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Where is Freddie Mercury?
The Need for a Hero in Science-Fiction Films
Apr 16, 2016
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Christopher Rhine
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A Look into "The Tree of Life"
The ‘I’ who speaks in this story is not the author.
Apr 9, 2015
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Christopher Rhine
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"Interstellar" and Christopher Nolan
This is an abridged and cleaned up version of the original article from 2014.
Nov 27, 2014
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Christopher Rhine
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Subjectivity and Form in "Shame"
The film begins with a montage of sorts with Brandon (Michael Fassbender) living his white-blue desaturated lifestyle.
Nov 3, 2014
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Christopher Rhine
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