On The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Why I Enjoy “Old People Movies”
As a white, heterosexual, middle-class female, I’m rarely forced to consider my identities. Were I a member of an ethnic, sexual, age, economic, political, or religious minority group, things would likely be different; I would more frequently be made aware of my...
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The Avengers’ $200 Million Opening Weekend and the State of the Superhero Genre Cycle
Currently dominating my Twitter feed are headlines like this: “The Avengers Has Biggest Opening Weekend Ever with $200 Million.” This (estimated) box-office count apparently bests Hollywood’s previous domestic opening-weekend record of $169.2 million held by...
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Gene Kelly in the Twenty-First Century: A Presentation
This entry is part 33 of 33 in the series Essays / Analyses.As mentioned in my previous post, “Where I’ve Been Lately: A Confession,” I spent much several weeks in March compiling the following talk, which I delivered last week at the Society for Cinema and...
Read More"Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom."
-- Camille Paglia
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