Monk, Craig. 1995. American Studies International 33, no. 2: 60-70. Monk discusses war and peace in two of the interwar novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who fought in World War I and lived and travelled throughout Europe…
Higgins, David M. 2013. Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 2: 228-245. In this introduction to a literary journal, David Higgins analyzes the political undertones in novels such as Frank Herbert’s Dune and Arthur C.…
Stewart, Garrett. 2012. Film Quarterly 63, no. 3: 58-62. Garrett Stewart argues animation and documentary-style filmmaking/writing enhance the constructed nature of memory and trauma in Ari Folman’s 2008 documentary…
Toles, George. 2012. Cinema Journal 51, no. 3: 142-149. Toles analyzes the antagonist of The Third Man (1949), Harry Lime, arguing he is an allegory for Hitler and Stalin, among others. Lime behaves in the same…
Leidinger, Hannes. 2018. University of New Orleans Press. This article presents an analysis of the appearance of Habsburg monarchs and the pre-World War I Austrian Empire which was common in Austrian film from the…
Bahoora, Haytham. 2015. The Arab Studies Journal 23, no. 1: 184-208. Bahoora presents a discussion of three Iraqi novels (Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes, Hassan Blasim’s The Reality and the Record, and Ahmed…
Kraemer, Joseph A. 2015. Journal of Film and Video 67, no. 3-4: 57-68. Kraemer argues the animation in Waltz With Bashir (2008) softens the real violence and atrocities committed by the characters in the film, allowing…
Vonnegut, Kurt. 2016. In If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Edited by Dan Wakefield. New York: Seven Stories Press. A 1970 commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut, in which he argues that art restores innocence and optimism…
Carpenter, Lynette. 1986. Film criticism 11, no. 1/2: 56-65. Lynette Carpenter argues the 1949 film The Third Man serves as a warning to European political powers about the dangers of the Cold War mentality, which was…
Herman, Peter C. 2018. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 41, no. 3: 165-193. Peter C. Herman argues that Thomas More’s novel Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and Dave Eggers’s novel The…