Setka, Stella. Jewish Film & New Media volume 3 no. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 141-169. This article details how Inglourious Basterds (2009) examines political art and its relationship to history and historiography. Stella…
Pitetti, Connor. Science Fiction Studies volume 44, no. 3 (November 2017), pp. 437-454. In this article Connor Pitetti distinguishes between apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic novels in science fiction, with the key…
Keen, Richard, McCoy, Monica L., and Powell, Elizabeth. Studies in Popular Culture volume 34, no. 2 (Spring2012), pp. 129-148. This article examines from a psychological and literary perspective why, when we read and…
Rabinowitz, Paula. History and Theory volume 32, no. 2 (May 1993), pp. 119-137. In this insightful article, Paula Rabinowitz writes that documentary films ask their audiences to consider memory, both individual and…
Solanas, Fernando and MacBean, James Roy. Film Quarterly volume 24, no. 1 (Autumn 1970), pp. 37-43. This article is an interview with Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Solanas about documentary filmmaking and Third…
Hills, Matt. In Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror, edited by Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller, 107-123. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2011. This essay, a chapter of the anthological work Horror…
Machado, Carmen Maria. The Paris Review, August 29, 2019. This article discusses the character Beth March in Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women as well as Alcott’s sister, on whom Beth is based. It highlights the…
Crowley, John. Conjunctions no. 46 (2006): 213-230. This article is a personal essay on the power of storytelling in the face of violence, conflict, and grief. Author John Crowley, who is both an academic and a fiction…
Rutsky, R. L. Film Quarterly 52, no. 4 (Summer 1999): 12-23. This article interprets the “beach party films” of the late 1950s and early 1960s as rebellions against societal expectations and unrest. R. L. Rutsky argues…
Dadlez, Eva and Lüthi, Daniel. The Journal of Aesthetic Education 52, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 81-94. This article uses literary theory to argue that comedy in fiction can enlighten in the same way as tragedy. Authors Eva…