Payerhim, Marek. The Polish Review 57, no. 1 (2012): 5-31. This article provides a fascinating history of protest songs and their connection to political opposition in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Protest songs were…
Jenzen, Olu, et al. In The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication, edited by Aidan McGarry et al., 211-232. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. This article discusses how artists used…
Adolf, Antony. Peace Research 42, no. 1 / 2 (2010): 9-21. This brief introduction to peace literature explains the main tenets and concepts used in the burgeoning field. Author Antony Adolf argues that peace literature…
Maddocks, Melvin. The Sewanee Review 112, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 22-34. This article examines the relationship between comedy and war, seeking to understand why comedy is used so often in war narratives. It surveys a…
Chaney, Michael. Prairie Schooner 90, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 101-110. This article is a personal essay examining the author’s relationship with his mother via the horror films they watched together. The essay uses…
Brooks, Kinitra D., McGee, Alexis, and Schoellman, Stephanie. Obsidian 42, no. 1 / 2 (2016): 237-248. This article examines how the horror genre in literature treats its black female characters and their trauma. It…
Coon, Caroline. In Working for the Clampdown: The Clash, the Dawn of Neoliberalism and the Political Promise of Punk, edited by Colin Coulter, 52-68. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. This article,…
Franz, Benjamin. 2019. Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 49, no. 2: 34-36. Benjamin Franz writes a review of Taika Waititi’s film Jojo Rabbit, analyzing Waititi’s use of genre-blending to create a…
Semmler, Clement. 1970. The Australian Quarterly 42, no. 4: 74-82. This journal article examines the life of writer Aldous Huxley, from his youth to his political opinions as a young man to his fascination with…
Kaes, Anton. 2006. This book chapter argues the 1919 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari manifests the anxiety and trauma of immediate post-World War I Germany into one of the first horror films. Keas analyzes such…